Judgement of risk in traumatized and nontraumatized emergency medical service personnel

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dc.contributor.authorNortje C.
dc.contributor.authorRoberts C.B.
dc.contributor.authorMoller A.T.
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-15T16:00:26Z
dc.date.available2011-05-15T16:00:26Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.description.abstractThis study investigated the hypothesis that posttraumatic stress is associated with a judgement of risk bias, defined as an overestimation of the likelihood of the occurrence of adverse events, as proposed by information-processing theories of posttraumatic stress disorder. Emergency medical service personnel with high PTSD symptomatology (n = 27) and without PTSD symptoms (n = 74) completed the PTSD Symptom Scale: Self-report version, the Work Experiences Questionnaire, the Beck Depression Inventory, and an Event Probability Questionnaire. Analysis showed that individuals with high PTSD symptomatology exhibited significantly more judgement of risk bias, that this cognitive bias was towards a wider range of threats than those involving only the threat of external harm, and that intrusion was its best predictor. © Psychological Reports 2004.
dc.description.versionArticle
dc.identifier.citationPsychological Reports
dc.identifier.citation95
dc.identifier.citation3 II
dc.identifier.issn332941
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/11697
dc.subjectadult
dc.subjectarticle
dc.subjectdecision making
dc.subjectepidemiology
dc.subjectfemale
dc.subjecthuman
dc.subjectlife event
dc.subjectmale
dc.subjectmiddle aged
dc.subjectoccupational disease
dc.subjectpersonality test
dc.subjectposttraumatic stress disorder
dc.subjectprobability
dc.subjectpsychological aspect
dc.subjectpsychometry
dc.subjectreproducibility
dc.subjectrescue personnel
dc.subjectrisk assessment
dc.subjectrisk factor
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectstatistical model
dc.subjectstatistics
dc.subjectAdult
dc.subjectBias (Epidemiology)
dc.subjectEmergency Medical Technicians
dc.subjectFemale
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectJudgment
dc.subjectLife Change Events
dc.subjectLikelihood Functions
dc.subjectMale
dc.subjectMiddle Aged
dc.subjectOccupational Diseases
dc.subjectPersonality Inventory
dc.subjectProbability
dc.subjectPsychometrics
dc.subjectReproducibility of Results
dc.subjectRisk Assessment
dc.subjectRisk Factors
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectStress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
dc.titleJudgement of risk in traumatized and nontraumatized emergency medical service personnel
dc.typeArticle
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