Caring for care-providers during crisis: Copping with trauma among health care providers at Blue Nile state Al-Damazine Hospital.

This is a cross-sectional study based on mix-research-design that addresses Knowledge, management of symptoms of trauma and copping strategies applied by health care providers to handle their own trauma at Blue Nile state Al-Damazine Hospitals after the incident of an abrupt conflict that left behind a lot of victims. Data was obtained from 34 participants by questionnaire with open-close ended questions developed by the researcher. The quantitative questions were analyzed using SPSS version 18 while the quantitative data was analyzed using the thematic analysis technique. The main results reveal that the health care providers indicated disparity of knowledge about trauma, have poor management for the symptoms of trauma but developed-self-coping strategies which they adopted to overcome trauma. The study recommends raising the knowledge of the health care providers about mental health in general with sessions about trauma in particular as well as establishing standard system of mental health care precautions during the crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]