Pol Merkur Lekarski. 2025;53(3):312-320. doi: 10.36740/Merkur202503103.
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: Aim: To compare indicators of the level of stress and the tendency to be exposed to stressogenic factors in internally displaced persons who moved from regions of active hostilities in the first three months after the full-scale Russian invasion.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and Methods: The following diagnostic tools were used in the study: 1. “Test for determining the level of stress” (according to V. Shcherbatykh, adapted by H. Kharko ), the essence of which is to determine the level of stress of a person. The test contains several sections that are responsible for a certain sign of stress – intellectual, behavioral signs, emotional and physiological symptoms. 2. “Questionnaire for self-diagnosis of the type of behavior in a stressful situation” (according to V. Boyko), which allows you to identify reactions to stress and the tendency to be influenced by stressogenic factors depending on the type of behavior in a stressful situation. Analysis, synthesis, generalization, concretization, systematization, comparison, forecasting, and mathematical statistics were used to process, compare, evaluate, and interpret the obtained research results. Data processing was carried out using Jamovi 2.2.5 and RStudio 2024.04.1.
RESULTS: Results: The relevance of the topic deals with the importance of the need to preserve, develop and strengthen the health of the individual, in particular in the conditions of war, which appears as a serious stress factor that tests a person. A special category that requires research on the level of stress and the tendency to be influenced by stress factors are internally displaced persons who have moved from regions of active hostilities and have a whole set of problems related to the lack of housing, work, adaptation in a new place, establishing communication, finding new resources of existence, etc. Long-term stress has a negative effect on the human body, in particular on intellectual, behavioral, emotional, and physiological manifestations. Among 134 respondents, 92 women, 29 men and 13 respondents did not indicate their gender participated in the study. The average age of the respondents was: Me=36, Q 1=32, Q 3=44 (N =118); 16 respondents did not indicate their age. The distribution of respondents’ age indicators was not subject to a normal distribution according to the Gaussian curve.
CONCLUSION: Conclusions: During the study of groups of internally displaced persons (hereinafter IDPs), which were formed according to time, gender and age criteria, moderate direct correlations were found between indicators of the level of stress and indicators of the tendency to be influenced by stressogenic factors, depending on the type of behavior in a stressful situation. Correlation is observed both for general indicators and component blocks of stress manifestations (intellectual, behavioral, emotional and physiological), which confirms the relationship between psychophysiological indicators of stress and the type of stress behavior. Our study among internally displaced persons aged 18-81 years who moved from regions of active hostilities proved the absence of a difference between women and men in the level of stress, and differences in the manifestations of intellectual, behavioral signs, emotional and physiological symptoms.
PMID:40633070 | DOI:10.36740/Merkur202503103
