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Published on: October 19, 2011
Traumatic stress in Japanese broadcast journalists
Miho Hatanaka1, Yutaka Matsui, Kiyoshi Ando
1Faculty of Human Studies, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan. hatanaka@ccmfs.meijo-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
Job-related traumatic stress experienced by broadcast journalists in Japan was investigated. A questionnaire inquiring about the most traumatic event they faced when covering the news and the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) were administered to 270 journalist participants working for Japanese news companies. Of these, 6% met the IES-R criterion for potential posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Moreover, posttraumatic stress reactions at the time of the survey were strongly related to symptoms of stress experienced during the stressful assignment. The early assessment of stress symptoms in journalists that experience traumatic news coverage is important for preventing the development of PTSD symptoms.
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