[Effect of post-traumatic disorders of the victims and causes of traffic accidents in the early stages of treatment].
Poland is a country in which every year there is a lot of motor vehicle accidents, number of victims is one of the highest in European union. Helping patients after motor vehicle accidents should base on cooperation of doctors and psychologists because holistic approach to patient enables rapid and effective rehabilitation.


OBJECTIVE
To show connection between physical damage cause in motor vehicle accident with mental trauma, which increase on process of full recovery.


METHODS
There were 31 victims who were involved in motor vehicle accidents not more than one month ago. In the second group there were people who was never involved in motor vehicle accident. The procedure consisted on filling demographic questionnaire, state traite anxety inventory and aqute stress disorder questionnare. In the second part of the research was to accomplish the emotional Stroop task, which based on selecting the name of the color of a word, which was on the screen. There were two types of the words: negative related to motor vehicle accident and neutral.


RESULTS
Participants from the research group had higher level of anxiety than participants from control group and they had significantly longer reaction time in particular on words associated to accident, which could be the signal of problems with cognitive processes because of the anxiety. Furthermore participants with head injuries and upper limbs (whitout dominant limb) have had longer reaction times in Stroop test than participants with leg injuries, it indicating on higher level of anxiety and feeling of insecurity.


CONCLUSIONS
It should be noted that looking on a character an range of a injuries, role that participant attend in accident (victims have more emotional disturbance), because it could determinate rate of recovery and the way communication with the patient.
Warsaw School of Social Sciencies and Humanieties. dscigala@swps.edu.pl
Dawid Konrad
DK
Scigała
Department of Traumatology and Orthopaedics with Muskuloskeletal Infection Ward, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of National Defense, Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw, Poland.
Jakub
J
Ziołek
Department of Traumatology and Orthopaedics with Muskuloskeletal Infection Ward, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of National Defense, Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw, Poland.
Krzysztof
K
Kwiatkowski
D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001134:Arm Injuries / Q000523:psychology*; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007869:Leg Injuries / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011044:Poland; D011930:Reaction Time; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D057190:Stroop Test; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult