TY - JOUR
T1 - The Association Between Psychological Distress and Decision Regret During Armed Conflict Among Hospital Personnel
AU - Ben-Ezra, Menachem
AU - Bibi, Haim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - The association between psychological distress and decision regret during armed conflict among hospital personnel is of interest. The objective of this study was to learn of the association between psychological distress and decision regret during armed conflict. Data was collected from 178 hospital personnel in Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, Israel during Operation Protective Edge. The survey was based on intranet data collection about: demographics, self-rated health, life satisfaction, psychological distress and decision regret. Among hospital personnel, having higher psychological distress and being young were associated with higher decision regret. This study adds to the existing knowledge by providing novel data about the association between psychological distress and decision regret among hospital personnel during armed conflict. This data opens a new venue of future research to other potentially detrimental factor on medical decision making and medical error done during crisis.
AB - The association between psychological distress and decision regret during armed conflict among hospital personnel is of interest. The objective of this study was to learn of the association between psychological distress and decision regret during armed conflict. Data was collected from 178 hospital personnel in Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, Israel during Operation Protective Edge. The survey was based on intranet data collection about: demographics, self-rated health, life satisfaction, psychological distress and decision regret. Among hospital personnel, having higher psychological distress and being young were associated with higher decision regret. This study adds to the existing knowledge by providing novel data about the association between psychological distress and decision regret among hospital personnel during armed conflict. This data opens a new venue of future research to other potentially detrimental factor on medical decision making and medical error done during crisis.
KW - Armed conflict
KW - Decision regret
KW - Hospital personnel
KW - Psychological distress
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84948149620
U2 - 10.1007/s11126-015-9406-y
DO - 10.1007/s11126-015-9406-y
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C2 - 26603623
AN - SCOPUS:84948149620
SN - 0033-2720
VL - 87
SP - 515
EP - 519
JO - Psychiatric Quarterly
JF - Psychiatric Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -