title: [Investigation on psychological stress of mine emergency rescue personnel].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate psychological stress and influence factors on the mine emergency rescue personnel.
  
  
  METHODS
  564 mine emergency rescue personnel from a rescue group were select as subjects, and 60 designers from a steel design institute were as controls. Self-made questionnaire and general job stress questionnaire were used to investigate the basic information, rescue history, psychosomatic symptoms, depression symptoms, daily job stress and negative emotions of emergency rescue personnel. SPSS17.0 software was used to analysis the psychological stress on the mine rescue personnel and its influence factors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The detection rate (41.94%) of depression symptoms in rescue team was higher than that of controls (24.90%). The score of daily job stress was higher than that of logistical support. The older age group with higher negative emotional and daily job stress than the younger. The highest negative emotion was in age group of more than 40 years old. The highest score of daily job stress was in ≤30 years old. The score of depression and psychosomatic symptoms were higher than those of the college and the above. The scores of depression in group of duration of rescue <10 years was higher than that of duration≥10 years. The score of daily job stress is the lowest in rescue for 1 to 2 times per year and the highest in group of simulation training once a week. The score of daily job stress and depressive symptoms were getting higher with the extension of combat duty time. Age, hours of combat duty, training times a week, education and life events were the main affecting fectors on mental health of mine rescuers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Mine rescuers have more psychological stress than generic population. The psychological stress of the mine crew is related to age, education, life events, training and combat readiness duty time.
authors.affiliation: Collage of Public Health, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang 453003, China.
authors.forename: Yao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Ruzhu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yuping
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.forename: Xiaoming
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yulan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Fuhai
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Shoufang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Haixia
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: E-mail: sanqiaoyao@qq.com.
authors.forename: Sanqiao
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression; D004190:Disasters; D060731:Emergency Responders / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D008906:Mining; D018635:Rescue Work; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires