Study title

Trauma Symptoms and Psychosocial Support after Accidents 2014 - 2015

Dataset ID Number

FSD3047

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3047

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Turja, Tuuli (University of Tampere)

Abstract

The survey studied trauma symptoms and psychosocial support received after accidents in Finland. Main themes pertained to the accident situation, injuries suffered, treatment and support received, and persisting trauma symptoms. The Impact of Event Scale -Revised (IES-R) was used to score post-traumatic stress disorder.

The initial questions investigated severe pain experienced by the respondent due to a traffic accident or other accident, hospital care received, the respondent's age at the time of the trauma, and how many of individuals involved had needed hospital care. Further questions charted how much pain, helplessness, fear or shame the respondents had experienced at the time of the accident, whether they had feared losing their mobility or other functionality, how many times they had re-experienced the same pain, the extent to which their life had been threatened, and the extent to which medication or other treatment had removed the pain.

The IES-R was used to present questions on the occurrence of intrusive thoughts about the accident, avoidance of stimuli associated with it, feelings of watchfulness and anger, physical symptoms caused by reminders of the accident, and signs of heightened irritability, sleep disorders, emotional numbing or lack of concentration.

Psychosocial support received was studied with questions relating to discussions with others, peer support, crisis support or therapy received, sufficiency of information from medical staff, and psychological support from people close to the respondent. The respondents were also asked whether they felt that only individuals with same experiences can understand their pain and how easy it was for them to talk about the issue to people close to them. Frequency of meeting friends, relatives or colleagues outside office hours was investigated.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, age, economic activity, household composition and general happiness.

Keywords

accidents; injuries; medical care; pain; pain control; post-traumatic stress disorder; social support; symptoms

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Medical and health sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Wounds and injuries (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Signs and symptoms; pathological conditions (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Data Collector

• Turja, Tuuli (University of Tampere)

Time Period Covered

2014 – 2015

Collection Dates

2014-11-28 – 2015-01-14

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Individuals who had experienced post-traumatic physical pain at the time period stretching from one month to five years prior to the survey

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Non-probability: Availability

An invitation to participate in the study was published in nine hand-picked online discussion forums which were related to sports and exercise activities (e.g. jogging, cycling, football), farm machinery and traffic. The invitation contained a link to the online questionnaire and was published for a month on each forum. The forums included were Pakkotoisto, Fillarifoorumi, Juoksufoorumi, Naisfutis, Masinistit, Marttailunurkka, Niskavamma.com and Moottoripyörä.org as well as five forums of Suomi24and two forums of Iltalehti.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Data File Language

Downloaded data package may contain different language versions of the same files.

The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: Finnish.

FSD translates quantitative data into English on request, free of charge. More information on ordering data translation.

Data Version

1.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The original data contained 417 cases which were formed when people had opened the link to the survey. However, most individuals who had opened the link did not respond to the survey. The data archive removed the non responding cases and thus the archived dataset contains 182 cases.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical Citation

Turja, Tuuli (University of Tampere): Trauma Symptoms and Psychosocial Support after Accidents 2014 - 2015 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2015-10-29). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3047

Deposit Requirement

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Related Materials

Turja, Tuuli (2015). Arkipäiväisten tapaturmien jälkeinen traumaoireilu ja psykososiaalisen tuen tarve. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto. Sosiaalipsykologian pro gradu -tutkielma.

Related Publications

Turja, Tuuli (2015). Arkipäiväisten tapaturmien jälkeinen traumaoireilu ja psykososiaalisen tuen tarve. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto. Sosiaalipsykologian pro gradu -tutkielma.