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Working on the railroad: Reactions to traumatic and stressful events

✍ Scribed by Valerie J. Meier; Jim Kennedy; Debra A. Hope

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
55 KB
Volume
7
Category
Article
ISSN
1091-4269

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✦ Synopsis

It was expected that, given the gruesome nature of railroad accidents, employees who had been exposed to work-related traumatic events would report more PTSD-related symptomatology than those who had experienced traumatic or stressful events during the course of their personal lives.

METHODS

PARTICIPANTS

The sample consisted of 342 railroad employees attending a 3-week training seminar held at the National Academy of Railroad Sciences in Overland Park, Kansas, several times over the course of several years. The subjects ranged in age from 19 to 57 years, and of those who specified their gender (n = 250), 95% were male. Of the sample, 188 subjects reported a traumatic event and were included in the analysis. These subjects were divided into three groups: those who reported railroadrelated accidents (n = 72), other traumatic events (e.g. witnessing a murder, car accident, n = 39), or stressful life events (e.g. death of a family member, n = 77). The average number of years from the date of the traumatic or stressful event was 4.9, 7.5, and 6.21 years for the railroad, other trauma, and stressful events groups, respectively, F(2,168) = 2.72, P = .07. The mean for the "other trauma" group was elevated due to several subjects having been involved in severe accidents or combat dating 20 to 36 years ago.

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