2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The psychological effects of experience of flight nurses working in emergency situation

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21592919
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Community health/Gerontological nurisng
Research Institution	Wakayama Medical University
Principal Investigator	BUYO Momoko 和歌山県立医科大学, 保健看護学部, 講師 (00290487)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	IKEDA Keiko 和歌山県立医科大学, 保健看護学部, 講師 (60331807) SUZUKI Yukiko 和歌山県立医科大学, 保健看護学部, 教授 (60285319) SHIBA Mitsuru 和歌山県立医科大学, 保健看護学部, 教授 (50178894)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	精神看護学 / リハビリテーション看護学
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study is to assess the psychological effects of experience of flight nurses、working in emergency situation, using a questionnaire survey and an interview technique. As a result, the resilience score of flight nurses was high compared with control group, therefore, they were not seemed to be influenced easily by critical experiences. "Traumatic stress factor" Of a flight nurse was, however, characterized by difficulty in predicting and preventing psychological damage because ofits suddenness and severity. This result shows that it is important to build up a system to prevent traumatic damage of flight nurses.

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