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Table 3 History of trauma as a predictor of psychological distress following disaster relief work

From: The usefulness of pre-employment and pre-deployment psychological screening for disaster relief workers: a systematic review

Disorder

Papers reporting significant association with disorder / papers reporting non-significant association with disorder

PTSD

[27, 29, 35, 47, 49, 54, 62, 65, 66] / [33, 36, 37, 40, 45, 46, 50, 57]

Similar / [45, 62, 69]

Dissimilar [69]

History of life stressors [28, 30, 32, 36, 45] / [29]

Anxiety

[47, 54] / [65]

Depression

[47, 54, 65] / [50, 59]

Psychological distress / morbidity

[62]/ [49, 65]

Similar / [69]

Dissimilar [69]

History of life stressors [60,61,62]

Stress

[59] / [46]

Somatic symptoms

[47] / [54]

Burnout

[36, 54] / [49, 57]

History of life stressors [36]

Peritraumatic dissociation

/ [59]

Resilience

[49]