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Appendix C - Data Analysis
Appendix C - Data Analysis
Pages 59-67
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A continuum from post-traumatic stress response (i.e., problems sleeping, experiencing a physical illness) to symptoms of a significant disorder (i.e., change in personality, altered functioning and behaviors, intrusive thoughts, labile emotions)
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Helps coping • Has experienced multiple traumatic events with some resolution • Perceived magnitude/gruesomeness of the event • Objectifies the tasks to be done or gives meaning to the work • Short term focused task within the incident • Comfortable with task and no surprises • Limited outside intrusion and knowledge of their expectations
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The mental health support personnel would promote personal resiliency, provide information about symptoms of stress response, and explain healthy coping strategies via brochures, presentations and/or published materials for workers and their families. Mental health support personnel would also assess the cultural response to counseling and health seeking behaviors; they would work to reduce or eliminate the myths that interfere with health seeking behaviors.
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• Interpersonal Sensitivity Scale focuses on feelings of personal inadequacy and inferiority, particularly in comparison with others. • Depression Scale reflects endorsement of a broad range of symptoms compatible with depression, such as dysphonic mood, feelings of hopelessness, and somatic complaints compatible with depression.
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48.00 7.23 Participant 107 DSB, ISR, TRB Participant 102 AA, AI, DA, DIS, DSB, ISR Participant 501 AA, IE, DA, DIS Participant 101 AA, DIS Participant 306 DIS Participant 201 SC Participant 101 DSB • Hostility Scale includes thoughts, feelings, or actions that are characteristic of the negative affect state of anger. • Phobic Anxiety Scale measures a persistent fear response to a specific person, place or object or situation which is characterized as being irrational and disproportionate to the actual stimulus which leads to avoidance or escape behavior.
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The DSB scale reflects sexual behavior that is in some way dysfunctional, either because of its indiscriminate quality, potential for self-harm or inappropriate use to accomplish non-sexual goals. The ISR indicates a lack of coping resources.
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Results from the SF-36v2 Health Survey indicated there were four participants who reported a high number of physical symptoms and two participants who reported a high number of mental health problems. Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies One important theme that emerged from the quantitative and qualitative analysis is that some of the participants continue to report an above average number of symptoms of psyTable 3.
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The symptoms covered the range of traumatic stress reactions including intrusion, avoidance and persistent hyperarousal. Despite having a number of participants report a high degree of continuing psychological distress, participants reported a high degree of resilience with a mean score of 78.74.
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This definition could also increase the robustness of currently implemented plans, whether they are simplistic or involved. In any event, further study into the issue of mental health recovery programs could generate more focused data given that the more detailed definition of a recovery program is operationally defined.
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