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Hatice Polat1, Kerim Uğur2, Tunahan Sun3
1Faculty of Health Sciences, https://ror.org/01v2xem26Malatya Turgut Özal University, Malatya, Turkey.
Objectives:
The study was conducted to assess the psychological resilience and stress symptoms in health care workers following the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake.
Methods:
The study was completed with a sample size of 313 health care workers who experienced the earthquake and was carried out in a descriptive and correlational design. The Sociodemographic Data Form, Brief Psychological Resilience Scale (BPRS), and Traumatic Stress Symptom Scale-5 (TSSS-5) were used.
Results:
The study found that 39.6% of health care workers were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, 41.2% of participants considered leaving their jobs after the earthquake, and 79.9% reported a decrease in job motivation (slight or a lot). It was determined that there was a negative correlation between the participants' BPRS scores and TSSS-5 scores (r:-0.523, P = 0.00).
Conclusions:
In accordance with the findings of our study, it can be posited that traumatic stress symptoms diminished as the level of psychological resilience increased in health care workers who experienced the earthquake.
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