阿富汗记者的心理困扰:一项描述性研究

IF 0.7 Q4 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY
Jonas Osmann, Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar, A. Feinstein
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阿富汗是世界上对记者来说最危险的地方之一。然而,没有关于报道阿富汗冲突的阿富汗记者心理健康的数据。这项研究旨在确定阿富汗记者接触创伤事件的程度、他们对组织支持的看法、他们出现创伤后应激障碍(PTSD)和抑郁症状的比率、他们对心理健康服务的利用率以及所接受治疗的有效性。,整个研究是用达里语(波斯语)进行的。代表104名记者的五家阿富汗主要新闻机构参加了会议,其中71家(68%)完成了对组织支持的简单11点模拟量表评级。PTSD和抑郁症的症状分别用事件影响量表(IES-R)和流行病学研究中心抑郁量表(CES-D)记录。对接受过和未接受心理健康治疗的记者进行了行为比较。,大多数记者超过了创伤后应激障碍和严重抑郁症的临界分数,并报告了接触创伤事件的高比率。接受和未接受心理健康治疗的记者在IES-R和CES-D评分方面没有显著差异。大多数记者并不认为他们的雇主是支持他们的。,据作者所知,这是第一项收集阿富汗记者心理健康实证数据的研究。研究结果突出了他们面临的极端压力源,他们相应的高精神病理学水平,以及为少数处于困境的人提供的心理健康治疗相对无效。讨论了这些发现的含义。
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Psychological distress in Afghan journalists: a descriptive study
Afghanistan is one of the world’s most dangerous places for journalists. There are, however, no data on the mental health of Afghan journalists covering conflict in their country. The study aims to determine the degree to which Afghan journalists are exposed to traumatic events, their perceptions of organizational support, their rates of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, their utilization of mental health services and the effectiveness of the treatment received.,The entire study was undertaken in Dari (Farsi). Five major Afghan news organizations representing 104 journalists took part of whom 71 (68%) completed a simple eleven-point analog scale rating perceptions of organizational support. Symptoms of PTSD and depression were recorded with the Impact of Event Scale – Revised (IES-R) and the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), respectively. Behavioral comparisons were undertaken between those journalists who had and had not received mental health therapy.,The majority of journalists exceeded cutoff scores for PTSD and major depression and reported high rates for exposure to traumatic events. There were no significant differences in IES-R and CES-D scores between journalists who had and had not received mental health therapy. Most journalists did not view their employers as supportive.,To the best of authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to collect empirical data on the mental health of Afghan journalists. The results highlight the extreme stressors confronted by them, their correspondingly high levels of psychopathology and the relative ineffectiveness of mental health therapy given to a minority of those in distress. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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