The purpose of this study is to analyze post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), job stress, and depression of fire fighters who have high risk of being revealed to PTSD due to their work. Also, it analyzes differences between job stress and symptoms of depressions according to existence of PTSD symptoms. This study looks at 5,808 fire fighters working at Gyeonggi-Do. For data collection, this study used diagnosis results by self diagnosis program which was developed and managed by Gyeonggi-Do Fire & Disaster Headquarters. As research analysis method, this study used cross tabulation analysis and chi-square test which is a statistic method for independence test. As a result, it turned out that 3.6% of all fire fighters of Gyeonggi-Do are experiencing PTSD, job stress, and depression. Also, degree of job stress and depression of the group experiencing PTSD is turned out to be relatively higher than group that do not experience PTSD.
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