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Predictors of Obesity and Physical Health Complaints Among 911 Telecommunicators

  • Lilly, Michelle M.;London, Melissa J.;Mercer, Mary C.
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • 제7권1호
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2016
  • Background: This study aims to: (1) examine rates of obesity and physical health complaints among 911 telecommunicators; and (2) document the role of emotion dysregulation, psychological inflexibility, duty-related distress and dissociation, and psychopathology in predicting obesity and physical health complaints in this population. Methods: The sample consisted of 911 telecommunicators from across the country (N = 758). Participants completed an online survey assessing their mental and physical health functioning. Results: A total of 82.5% of the sample reported a body mass index that fell within the overweight or obese category and an average of 17 physical health complaints within the past month. Peritraumatic reactions (distress and dissociation), emotion dysregulation, and psychological inflexibility had effects on physical health largely through psychopathology (alcohol abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression). Conclusion: Development of adapted prevention and intervention efforts with this population is needed.

중독 질환에서 가상현실기술 적용의 임상적 유용성 (Clinical Use of Virtual Reality in Addiction)

  • 이준영;정덕환;최정석
    • 중독정신의학
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    • 제18권1호
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    • pp.17-22
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    • 2014
  • Virtual reality (VR) provides an immersive and interactive 3-dimensional system, which allows an individual to become immersed in a computer-generated situation. VR technology has been administered in the exposure-based treatment of a variety of psychiatric disorders, including acrophobia, fear of flight, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Furthermore, VR systems have also been developed for the use of research and treatment in addiction. They might have advantages in cue exposure therapy, by increasing the salience of cues, as well as assessments of cue reactivity in addiction. This article summarizes the application of VR in the field of psychiatry. More importantly, it suggests the possibilities of clinical use of VR technology, in the treatment of addiction.

외상후 스트레스장애 환자의 증상 완화를 위한 모바일 게임 기반의 디지털치료기기 개발 (Development of a Mobile Game-Based Digital Therapeutic Device for Symptom Alleviation in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Patients)

  • 서다원;박난;백인성;김가현;조윤진;나정은
    • 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정보처리학회 2023년도 추계학술발표대회
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    • pp.822-823
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    • 2023
  • 외상후 스트레스 장애(PTSD)는 장기적으로 심각한 기능 장애를 초래하므로 적절한 치료가 필수적이다. 현재 PTSD 치료법 중 효과가 검증된 주류 심리치료는 환자에게 정서적 고통을 유발하여 치료 중도 포기를 야기하고 치료 효과를 감소시키는 주요한 원인이다. 본 연구에서는 생성형 AI를 적용하여 사용자의 맞춤형 트라우마 이미지를 무의식적으로 노출시키는 방식으로 게임에 적용하였다. 개발된 게임은 디지털 치료기기로 사용함으로써 비침습적인 방법으로 치료의 효과를 증대한다.

Effects of a Forest Therapy Program on Reducing PTSD and Depression and Improving Mood States in Fire Officers

  • Park, Choong-hee;Chun, Juhyeon;Hahm, Yumi;Kang, Deok Ho;Park, Bum-Jin
    • 인간식물환경학회지
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    • 제24권6호
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    • pp.693-705
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    • 2021
  • Background and objective: This study was conducted to investigate the effects of forest therapy programs on reducing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and improving mood states in fire officers. Methods: To determine PTSD, depression, and mood states before and after the forest therapy program, the survey results of 185 fire officers were analyzed. Frequency analysis was conducted to identify the demographic characteristics of the participants, and Wilcoxon signed-rank test to analyze the differences among group. Results: As a result of a comparative analysis of PTSD before and after the program, there was a significant decrease in PTSD from 10.65 ± 12.00 to 5.64 ± 8.29 after the program. Depression also showed a statistically significant difference from 3.21 ± 4.00 to 2.21 ± 3.47 after the program. As a result of comparatively analyzing mood states before and after the program, there was an increase in positive factors and a decrease in negative factors. Total mood disturbance (TMD) also showed a statistically significant decrease from 5.78 ± 17.37 to -7.38 ± 10.35 after the program. Conclusion: This study has significance in verifying that forest therapy programs can bring psychological changes to fire officers, and these results can be used as a basis for stress management and relief of fire officers.

Maternal separation in mice leads to anxiety-like/aggressive behavior and increases immunoreactivity for glutamic acid decarboxylase and parvalbumin in the adolescence ventral hippocampus

  • Eu-Gene Kim;Wonseok Chang;SangYep Shin;Anjana Silwal Adhikari;Geun Hee Seol;Dae-Yong Song;Sun Seek Min
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • 제27권1호
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    • pp.113-125
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    • 2023
  • It has been reported that stressful events in early life influence behavior in adulthood and are associated with different psychiatric disorders, such as major depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorder. Maternal separation (MS) is a representative animal model for reproducing childhood stress. It is used as an animal model for depression, and has well-known effects, such as increasing anxiety behavior and causing abnormalities in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. This study investigated the effect of MS on anxiety or aggression-like behavior and the number of GABAergic neurons in the hippocampus. Mice were separated from their dams for four hours per day for 19 d from postnatal day two. Elevated plus maze (EPM) test, resident-intruder (RI) test, and counted glutamic acid decarboxylase 67 (GAD67) or parvalbumin (PV) positive cells in the hippocampus were executed using immunohistochemistry. The maternal segregation group exhibited increased anxiety and aggression in the EPM test and the RI test. GAD67-positive neurons were increased in the hippocampal regions we observed: dentate gyrus (DG), CA3, CA1, subiculum, presubiculum, and parasubiculum. PV-positive neurons were increased in the DG, CA3, presubiculum, and parasubiculum. Consistent with behavioral changes, corticosterone was increased in the MS group, suggesting that the behavioral changes induced by MS were expressed through the effect on the HPA axis. Altogether, MS alters anxiety and aggression levels, possibly through alteration of cytoarchitecture and output of the ventral hippocampus that induces the dysfunction of the HPA axis.

한국 산모의 산후 우울과 산후 외상 후 스트레스장애 관련성: 종단적 연구 (Association of postpartum depression with postpartum posttraumatic stress disorder in Korean mothers: a longitudinal survey)

  • 조현진;고민선;유혜지;안숙희
    • 여성건강간호학회지
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    • 제28권1호
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    • pp.46-55
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: This study aimed to determine the level of postpartum posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and postpartum depression (PPD) in Korean mothers with healthy babies and to explore the factors related to postpartum PTSD. Methods: This study used a longitudinal survey design to explore the levels and association of PPD and PTSD. Two hundred women were recruited during pregnancy and the data were collected via online survey from 166 mothers (84% retained) who gave birth to healthy babies, at two postpartum periods: Fear of childbirth was assessed at the 1st week; and spousal support, PPD, and postpartum PTSD were surveyed at the 4th week postpartum. Descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way analysis of variance, Chi square test, and multiple regression were done. Results: The mean age of mothers was 33.12 (±3.97) years old. Postpartum PTSD was low (8.95±6.49) with 1.8% (n=3) at risk (≥19). PPD was also low (6.68±5.28) and 30.1% (n=50) were identified at risk (≥10). The comorbid rate of PPD with PTSD was 6%. Mothers who did not have a planned pregnancy had higher scores of PPD (t=-2.78, p=.008), whereas spousal support and PPD had negative relationship (r=-.21, p=.006). The overall explanatory power for postpartum PTSD was 55.2%, of which PPD was the only significant variable (β=. 76, t=13.76, p<.001). Conclusion: While only 1.8% was at risk of postpartum PTSD at 4 weeks postpartum, PPD prevalence was 30.1% and PPD was the only influential factor of postpartum PTSD. Assessment and counseling of PPD are required as well as screening for postpartum PTSD. More research is also needed on postpartum PTSD in Korean women.

외상문학에 함축된 치유와 윤리 -돈 드릴로의 『추락하는 남자』와 조이 코가와의 『오바상』 병치 연구 (Cure and Ethics Implied in Trauma Literature: Don DeLillo's Falling Man and Joy Kogawa's Obasan)

  • 김봉은
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제57권1호
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    • pp.107-127
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    • 2011
  • Don DeLillo has shown considerable interest in terror, frequently depicting extreme dread of something terrible to happen, in his literary texts. Since more than three thousand innocent people in New York were killed by the 9-11 terrorist attack in 2001, the anticipation about what kind of fiction he would write as a New Yorker was high. DeLillo's novel Falling Man (2007) in fragmentary detail represents the scene of the terrorism from the perspective of Keith Neudecker, a lawyer who escapes the collapsing world trader center. Neudecker's post-traumatic stress disorder in the first chapter is followed by the free-associative portrayal of various impacts of the 9-11 terror on Neudecker's wife Lienne in the second chapter. The random mixture of the first person narratives from such diverse view-point characters as Neudecker's son Justin, relatives and friends, with dialogues and recollections yields a very close picture of the consequences of terrorism. Reading DeLillo's Falling Man in juxtaposition with a Japanese Canadian novel Obasan by Joy Kogawa, reminiscences of the maltreatment of Japanese Canadians during and after the second world war, surfaces the authorial intention of the two novels. They as trauma literature emerge to aim at curing the readers and proposing post-traumatic ethics. Laurie Vickroy's theory of trauma narrative and cure, E. Ann Kaplan's theory of trauma witness narrative and responsibility, and Emmanuel Levinas's theory of trauma memory and ethics offer theoretical grounds for the convincing analysis of the two texts.

인천 화재사건 청소년 생존자를 대상으로 한 PTSD 하위유형간 증상, 기능 및 기질성격 특성 비교연구 (Symptom severity, Functional Impairment, and Personality Profiles between Partial and Full Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Patients among the Adolescent Survivors from the Incheon Fire Disaster)

  • 황서현;이홍석;이상규;이흥표;전철은;이소영;김용구
    • 대한불안의학회지
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.92-100
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    • 2011
  • Objectives : The aim of this study was to investigate Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)-related symptom severity, level of functional impairment and personality profiles between full-blown PTSD, partial PTSD and non-PTSD groups among 59 adolescent survivals from the Incheon fire disaster. Method : Using Short Screening Scale for DSM-IV PTSD, victims of the disaster were assigned to a full-blown PTSD group (n=18), a partial PTSD (n=22), or a non-PTSD group (n=19). Assessments included the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the Impact of Event Scales (IES), the McBride's Degree of General Labor Loss, and the Korean Version of Temperament and Character Inventory (K-TCI). Results : Significantly severe PTSD symptoms (F=4.832, df=2, p<.05) and functional impairment (F=12.144, df=2, p<.01) were demonstrated by PTSD groups as compared to the non-PTSD group. Interestingly, full and partial PTSD did not differ in these comparisons. Similarly, the subtypes of PTSD did not differ with respect to personality profiles using the K-TCI ; however, personality profiles were sharply differentiated between the PTSD and non-PTSD group. Conclusion : Although high subject homogeneity and small sample size may limit the results of this study, the present results highlight the possibility of the underestimation as well as the insufficient, treatment and compensation of partial vs full PTSD.

청소년을 위한 정신건강 개입 : 사회불안을 중심으로 한 학교-기반 프로그램 (Mental Health Intervention for Adolescents : A School-Based Program to Address Social Anxiety)

  • 허은혜;남지애;고부성;김정은;이창화;최경숙
    • 대한불안의학회지
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    • 제14권2호
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    • pp.88-98
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    • 2018
  • Objective : The purpose of this study was to establish a school-based mental health intervention. The success of which was indexed by its effects on the social anxiety symptoms of the enrolled adolescents. Methods : This program for promoting mental health among adolescents in the community was adopted by three middle schools that volunteered to participate in the project. The program included screening for emotional problems related to social anxiety, depression, suicide, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Case management was provided for groups considered high-risk for depression, suicide, or post-traumatic stress disorder; cognitive-behavior therapy was provided for those at high-risk of developing social anxiety. Additionally, educational programs for the prevention of suicide, a "loving life" module, and mental health promotional campaigns were also included. In total, 1,100 middle school students completed self-report questionnaires. Twenty-five students in the high-risk group for social anxiety participated in a cognitive-behavior therapy program, comprising eight sessions, and conducted by two clinical psychologists. Results : Following the suicide prevention education program, suicide awareness among students increased and coping strategies were improved. In addition, the loving life program was associated with positive self-perceptions by many students. Furthermore, social anxiety symptoms showed a statistically significant difference after the cognitive-behavior therapy program. After the therapy, not only did social anxiety symptoms improve, depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation decreased significantly, while self-esteem and psychological resilience significantly increased. Conclusion : A school-based mental health intervention was successfully implemented in three middle schools and improved the mental health of the participating students. Therefore, this intervention could be widely implemented to promote positive mental health among middle school students.

코로나19 팬데믹 상황 중 병원 간호사의 PTSD 증상에 영향을 미치는 요인 (Factors affecting PTSD symptoms among hospital nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic in Korea)

  • 서은주;김영리;홍은희
    • 산업융합연구
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    • 제20권6호
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    • pp.83-92
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    • 2022
  • 한국의 COVID-19 대유행 기간 동안 병원 간호사의 외상 후 스트레스 장애증상(PTSD)에 영향을 미치는 요인을 조사하기 위함이다. 방법: 횡단적, 서술적 연구설계로 병원에서 COVID-19 환자를 다루는 간호사 180명을 대상으로 2020년 12월부터 2021년 1월까지 온라인 설문 조사를 통해 데이터 수집을 하였다. 이 설문조사는 사회인구학적 질문, 외상 후 스트레스 장애 22항목, D유형 성격 14항목, 회복탄력성 25항목, 사회적 지지 23항목이다. 연구결과: 이 표본(n=180)에서 간호사의 56.1%(n=101)가 PTSD 고위험군에 해당하였다. PTSD 고위험군의 경우 회복탄력성과 사회적 지지 정도가 PTSD 저위험군에 비해 낮았으나 두 변수 모두 통계적으로 유의한 차이는 없었다(회복탄력성 t=0.207, p=.836, 사회적 지지 t=1.07, p=.287). PTSD에 영향을 미치는 요인으로는 교육(OR=2.23, p=.041)과 D유형 성격(OR=3.67, p<.001)으로 확인되었다. 결론: 연구의 결과는 COVID-19와 같은 전염병 동안 PTSD에 영향을 미치는 요인을 확인함으로써 간호사의 PTSD를 확인하고, 이를 극복하기 위한 심리 프로그램 등 관리 체계를 적용하기 위해 활용될 수 있다.