The survey of state/trait anxiety situation of emergency health services stations staff belonging to Elaziğ city center

The Survey of State/Trait Anxiety Situation of Emergency Health Services Stations Staff Belonging to Elazığ City Cente It's possible to observe anxiety and depression disorders frequently in emergency health service personnel. In this work, it's aimed to define the levels of anxiety and its main causes by observing the personnel from emergency health service stations (EHSS) within the borders of Elazig. This cross-sectional study has been done through the results from 282 people who are the personnel of EHSS.A questionnaire which includes questions to determine participants' socio-demographic features, health, socio-demographic factors that are thought to be related to anxiety and some questions from constant state anxiety inventory have been applied to the participants and directly observed. The participants of this study are %37.2 women and %62.8 men. Their average of age is 33.60±1.10. The personnel's state anxiety average is 36.70 ± 10.34 and constant anxiety average is 40.34± 8.13. Constant/state anxiety levels depend on the participants' sex, ages, marital status, themselves' and their partners' educational states and their average income (p>0.05). It's been discovered that the constant/ state anxiety point averages of those who work in the centre of city compared to the ones that work in the towns, who see their health conditions as medium/bad compared to the ones who see theirs as good, who state their characters as introverted compared to the ones with extroverted characters, who say they have some sleeping disorders compared to the ones that mentions nothing about that ,who don't have any spare time for relaxing compared to the ones who have some, are higher (p<0.05). The constant/state anxiety point averages of EHSS personnel who think positively about their work, who state that if they had the chance they would choose the same job, who is satisfied or mildly satisfied with their job, who is satisfied with work place and conditions , have been found out to be higher than those who have negative point of views about their job. As a result, in this study, constant anxiety point average of EHSS personnel has been discovered to be higher than state anxiety point average. Constant anxiety point of staff can be evaluated as medium level. It's been concluded that planning and applying some new procedures to improve EHSS personnel's socio-economic levels, health conditions, their positive perspectives for their jobs, can decrease the anxiety levels of emergency health service personnel. Key words: Emergency Health Services Personnel, Anxiety, State/ Constant Anxiety Inventory.