Questionnaire survey of post-traumatic stress disorder in doctors involved in the Omagh bombing

18 December 1999

journal article
research article
Published by BMJ in BMJ

Vol. 319 (7225) , 1609
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.319.7225.1609

Abstract

All 115 doctors employed by the trust were sent questionnaires that included a well validated measure of post-traumatic stress disorder,1 which requires particular symptoms to be present and a total score above 6 as an indicator of the disorder. Other questions concerned the doctors' involvement in the event, their prior experiences of serious trauma, and what help they had received since the bombing.

Keywords

SURVEY
DOCTORS
TRAUMATIC STRESS
SCORE
STRESS DISORDER
POST TRAUMATIC
PRIOR

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