Purpose Wars can lead to massive migration waves, e.g. the Syrian Civil War that began in 2011 led European refugee crisis. Discussions about labour integration often accompany huge spikes asylum applications. Since many refugees experience traumatic events, such as torture, health problems must be considered work context. Unfortunately, relevance of post-traumatic experiences specific job perf...

How are strengths of character related to growth following trauma? A retrospective Web-based study of 1,739 adults found small, but positive associations among the number of potentially traumatic events experienced and a number of cognitive and interpersonal character strengths. It was concluded that growth following trauma may entail the strengthening of character.

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented detrimental impact on mental health in people around the world. It is therefore important to examine factors that may buffer or heighten risk of problems this context. Objectives current study explores buffering effects different flows compassion (for self, for others, from others) and magnifying fears perceived threat indicators psych...

BACKGROUND Although disaster causes distress, many disaster victims do not develop long-term psychopathology. Others report benefits after traumatic experiences (posttraumatic growth). The objective of this study was to examine demographic and hurricane-related predictors of resilience and posttraumatic growth. METHODS We interviewed 222 pregnant southern Louisiana women and 292 postpartum wo...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS We evaluated the effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) on the healing of large traumatic tympanic membrane perforations (TMPs). STUDY DESIGN Prospective clinical study. SETTING Tertiary university hospital. METHODS A randomized, prospective analysis was performed between June 2013 and August 2014 on the treatment of trauma...

Introduction Having a premature infant who is hospitalized with the risk of death and potential health problems traumatic experience for many parents. The present study investigated depression, anxiety, stress, post-traumatic growth (PTG) experienced by couples after birth their babies in terms relationship dynamics. Material methods was conducted on 209 individuals – 159 mothers (76.1%) 50 fat...

The article considers the concept of «psychological well-being individual», theoretical approaches to its understanding: hedonistic, eudomonistic and integrative. An attempt has been made determine components psychological individual, objective subjective indicators factors that it. Emphasis is placed on state». individual defined as an integrated, fairly stable state, which manifested in exper...

BACKGROUND Most previous attempts to determine the psychological cost of military deployment have been limited by reliance on convenience samples, lack of pre-deployment data or confidentiality and cross-sectional designs. AIMS This study addressed these limitations using a population-based, prospective cohort of U.S. military personnel deployed in support of the operations in Iraq and Afghan...

War captivity is one of the most severe human-inflicted traumatic experiences with wide and substantial long-term negative effects. However, only one retrospective study examined suicidal ideation (SI) among ex-prisoners of war (ex-POWs). This study aimed to prospectively assess SI among ex-POWs and its associations with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms over a 17-year period. Two g...