作者
William Berger, Evandro Silva Freire Coutinho, Ivan Figueira, Carla Marques-Portella, Mariana Pires Luz, Thomas C Neylan, Charles R Marmar, Mauro Vitor Mendlowicz
发表日期
2012/6
来源
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
卷号
47
页码范围
1001-1011
出版商
Springer-Verlag
简介
Purpose
We sought to estimate the pooled current prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among rescue workers and to determine the variables implicated in the heterogeneity observed among the prevalences of individual studies.
Methods
A systematic review covering studies reporting on the PTSD prevalence in rescue teams was conducted following four sequential steps: (1) research in specialized online databases, (2) review of abstracts and selection of studies, (3) review of reference list, and (4) contact with authors and experts. Prevalence data from all studies were pooled using random effects model. Multivariate meta-regression models were fitted to identify variables related to the prevalences heterogeneity.
Results
A total of 28 studies, reporting on 40 samples with 20,424 rescuers, were selected …
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