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Trauma symptoms, sleep quality and related factors in the early post-earthquake period
Abstract
Aim: Traumatic life events such as earthquake are frequently encountered problems both in our country and all over the world. The aim of this study was to determine sleep quality, trauma level and related factors and to evaluate the effects of gender, damage status and losses in adults who were admitted to the psychiatry outpatient clinic among individuals who were placed six thousand kilometers far away from their residence in Kırıkkale University student dormitories immediately after the 6 February 2023 earthquakes that affected a wide geography in Turkey. Methods: 64 volunteers were included in the study between March 2023 and June 2023. After the participants’ complaints and sociodemographic characteristics were questioned, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Scale That Determines the Level of the Trauma after the Earthquake (PETLDS) were applied to the participants to determine their sleep quality and trauma levels after the earthquake. Results: The mean age of the participants was 45.5±15.5, and 75.0% of them were women. Fear/anxiety and insomnia were the most frequently reported complaints by the participants. The mean of the participants’ PSQI scores was 10.5±4.4, and 43 participants (79.6%) had poor sleep quality in the last month. The mean score of the participants’ PETLDS was determined as 76.6±17.9. When the subscales were examined, it was determined that the emotional limitation and cognitive restructuring scores were higher than the behavioral, affective and sleep problems. When the participants were compared in terms of damage in their homes, it was found that the participants with moderately or more damaged houses had statistically higher emotional, cognitive restructuring and sleep problems and total trauma scores compared to the participants with a solid or slightly damaged house (respectively; p=.017, p=.023, p=.010, p=.040). Individuals with moderately or more damaged houses had higher PSQI scores but this difference did not reach statistical significance (p=.061). However, parameters such as age, female gender, history of psychiatric illness, loss of loved ones, damage status of house, and PSQI score did not yield an association with high-level trauma symptoms (PETLDS score above 52.3) in univariate logistic regression analysis. Conclusion: Female gender, young age, damage status of house, losing loved ones and history of psychiatric illness are associated with high-level trauma symptoms and poor sleep quality after the early period of earthquake with no statistical significance.

Keywords : Earthquake, public health, sleep disorders, trauma

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Article available in :
Volume 4, Issue 5, 2023
Page : 492-498
https://doi.org/10.47582/jompac.1342558
Article Information
Received : 14 Ağu 2023
Accepted : 25 Eyl 2023
Published : 27 Eki 2023
Corresponding Author :

Hayriye Mihrimah Öztürk: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Kırıkkale University, Kırıkkale, Turkey

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Citation : Öztürk HM, Daymaz D, Kocakaya H, Akkoyun AZ, Saygun M. Trauma symptoms, sleep quality and related factors in the early post-earthquake period. J Med Palliat Care. 2023;4(5):492-498.

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