Post-traumatic stress disorder among the staff of a mental health hospital: Prevalence and risk factors

Conclusion: Post-traumatic stress disorder could result from stressful events encountered in the course of managing patients in mental health institutes and departments. Pre-placement personality evaluation of health workers to be assigned to work in psychiatric units and post-incident trauma counselling of those exposed to violence may be beneficial in reducing the occurrence of PTSD in mental hospital health care workers.
Source: South African Journal of Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research