Humanitarian relief work is a growing field characterized by ongoing exposure to primary and secondary trauma, which has implications for workers' occupational mental health. This paper reviews and summarizes research to date on mental health effects of relief work. Twelve studies on relief workers and 5 studies on organizations that employ relief workers are examined to determine whether relief work is a risk factor for trauma-related mental illness. Although studies are inconsistent regarding methods and outcomes documenting trauma-related mental illness among relief workers, it appears that relief workers, compared with the general population, experience elevated trauma rates and suffer from more posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. Organizations that employ relief workers have varying approaches to train for these risks, and more support in the field is needed.

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人道主义救济工作者和与创伤有关的精神疾病。

人道主义救济工作是一个不断增长的领域，其特征是不断暴露于原发性和继发性创伤，这对工人的职业心理健康有影响。本文回顾并总结了迄今为止有关救济工作对心理健康的影响的研究。审查了关于救济工作者的十二项研究和关于雇用救济工作者的组织的五项研究，以确定救济工作是否是与创伤有关的精神疾病的危险因素。尽管有关在救济工作者中记录与创伤有关的精神疾病的方法和结果的研究不一致，但看来与一般人群相比，救济工作者遭受的创伤率更高，并且患有更多的创伤后应激障碍，抑郁症和焦虑症。雇用救济工作者的组织采用不同的方法来培训这些风险，