چكيده لاتين :
Background: After each natural disaster a comprehensive treatment
protocol is needed for volunteers of healthcare personnel of
the disaster zone. The aim of this study was to emphasize the
psychological aspects of coping strategies, personality, psychological
distress and pain of patients survived the Bam earthquake.
Methods: Eighty-six patients who had suffered several kinds
of psycho-cognitive and emotional impairment of the Posttraumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) were selected six months
after the earthquake. They completed a battery of questionnaires
including the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
(HADS), Ways of Coping Checklist, Eysenck Personality
Questionnaire (EPQ), and McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ).
Multiple regression analyses and Correlation Analyses were
applied for inclusion and exclusion of variables. Correlations
were reported between the HADS, EPQ and MPQ.
Results: Both anxiety and depression showed significant positive
correlations with five of the dimensions of MPQ. High levels of
neuroticism were associated with greater use of denial and passivity.
Psychoticism was negatively associated with external support,
given the social withdrawal to be associated with psychoticism.
Correlation analysis confirmed that high neuroticism was
related to greater degrees of emotional distress. Anxiety and depression
were both associated with increased scores in denial and
passivity. Female patients were found to score significantly
higher than males on the factor of "relying on external support".
ConcJusion: The main problems of patients that survived
from Bam earthquake were emotional distress, coping deficiency
and adjustment disorders. It seems that psychological
intervention might be more effective than the conventional
medical treatments that were administered in the hospital.
