PTSD and its Relationship to Psychological Resilience of a Sample of Taiz War Wounded

Abstract

     The study aims at revealing the presence of post-traumatic stress disorder, and whether there is a relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder and psychological Resilience among Yemeni war-wounded, and whether post-traumatic stress disorder affects the psychological Resilience. The main research sample consists of (38) war-wounded Yemenis who are available for treatment in the Arab Republic of Egypt. Two tools have been applied to the sample: the “Daphson” scale to measure the impact of traumatic experiences, and the “Eman Mustafa” scale to measure psychological Resilience.

    The psychometric conditions for each instrument have been verified. The reliability coefficient was calculated by several methods: internal consistency, Cronbach's alpha coefficient, and half-segmentation with correction of the correlation coefficient by the "Spearman-Brown" equation. The results indicate that the two scales had acceptable stability coefficients. The validity of each tool was also verified in two ways: the validity of the arbitrators, and the validity of the content.

     The results of the current study have shown that (19) 50% of the participants ranged in age from 18 to 25 years, followed by 15 (39.5%) whose ages ranged from 26 to 35 years. Yet, the rest of the participants 4 (10.5%) are over 35 years old. 25 injured (65.8%) are single, while 13 (34.2%) of them are married. 19 (50%) have university education, while the rest are as follows, in order: 11 (28.9%) diploma, 7 (18.4%) secondary, and 1 (2.6%) secondary education.

The study has concluded that there is an arithmetic significance of PTSD (war) mild distress based on the Davison Scale of Impact of Traumatic Experience Scale. This relation centers as a whole for the two dimensions the recovery of traumatic experience and symptoms of avoidance of shock, which are similar to the results of the general scale. After counseling, he showed a very weak post-traumatic stress disorder.

     Another result is that there is a statistically significant effect on the psychological Resilience of the sample, and accordingly the appearance of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms leads to an important impact on psychological Resilience. Where, after recovering the traumatic experience, it represents a negative factor that leads to a decline in the psychological Resilience of the sample. While avoiding distress and counseling helps in enhancing psychological Resilience in the sample, it helps in giving advice from the competent authorities and psychiatric consultants, which helps the person to enhance his psychological Resilience and overcome distress.