title: [Post-traumatic stress disorder in the Ares 118 voluntary ambulance staff in the Latina area: preliminary study to validate the PTSS-10].
abstract: The study investigates and describes post-traumatic stress testing for the Italian validation of the abbreviated form of the Scale for the Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSS-10). It's a scale comprising 10 items and the article takes into consideration the German version, derived from the original Norwegian. The scale is based on the concept of multidirectional stress supported by Lazarus. Its validation and testing was conducted on a group of 60 ARES 118 volunteers of Latina. The study reports the internal reliability of the translated instrument, calculated using Cronbach's alpha and compared to German study. 'Factor Analysis is calculated and the results are discussed. Some remarks, also, are made by relating scores indicating a suspected PTSD with socio-demographic variables. The results demonstrate the reliability of the instrument, but for a generalization, it should be tested on a larger sample and apply the test -retest.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Capodilupo
authors.forename: Micaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Danieli
authors.forename: Julita
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sansoni
mesh_terms: D000552:Ambulances; D006758:Hospital Volunteers; D006801:Humans; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000209:etiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires