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Name: Salem E.S. Al arjani B.S.N, MPH, Community Mental Health

Job: Psychologist; European Gaza Hospital

Work: Researcher andLecturer in Al Quds Open-University Gaza Strip

Mobile: 00970598-880594

Email: salem.alarjani@gmail.com, salem@easy.com

Publication:

Al arjani, S., Thabet, A. and Vostanis, P. (2008). Coping strategies of traumatized

children lost their father in the current conflict. Arabpsynet Journal,5 (18-19):226-

232.

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Coping strategies among Palestinian health sector staff during Israel aggression

(war) on Gaza between 27 December, 2008 until 22January, 2009.

Salem Al arjani

Abstract:

The study aimed to examine and investigate the types of coping strategies

among Palestinian health sector staff during the war in Gaza and the influences ofthe war on the ways of coping. Furthermore, the study aimed to examine the most

traumatic events that encountered them during this aggression. The researcher used

descriptive analytical design to represent the entire sample of the population. The

sample consisted of 330 health sector staff (213 male, and 117 female) who was in

the work during the war. The instrument that used were socioeconomic questionnaire

developed by the researcher; A COPE inventory Arabic version (Al arjani, 2005), and

Gaza Traumatic Event Checklist (Thabet, 2004).

The major findings were:

The most used coping strategies were (1) Planning (85.5%); (2) positivereinterpretation and growth (78.9%); (3) Restraint (75.7%); (4) acceptance (75.6%);

(5) active coping (75.2%); (6) religious coping (73.9%); (7) use of emotional social

support (73.3%); (8) suppression of competing activities (68.8%); (9) use of

instrumental social support (67.6%); (10) focus on and venting of emotions (63.3%);

(11) behavioral disengagement (54.2%); (12) mental disengagement (50.4%); (13)

denial (49.9%); (14) humor (42.2%); and (15) substance use (27.6%).

The most traumatic events were (1) Witnessing photos of martyrs' and injured in TV

(86.7%); (2) Witnessing raids attack of houses and streets by missiles (85.5%); (3)

Hearing of killing of friend (77.6%); (4) Witnessing neighbors' houses attack by

heavy artillery(72.1%); (5) Witnessing friend's house demolition (67.9%); (6)

Hearing of killing of close relative (67.0%); (7) Witnessing house attack by heavy

artillery (55.2%); (8) Witnessing house demolition (54.2%); and (9) Witnessing

shooting of friend by bullets (54.2%).

The result found significant differences between levels of religious coping ; positive

reinterpretation and growth; mental disengagement; use of instrumental social

support; active coping; suppression of competing activities; and planning according to

sex with an actual probability (t = 4.29; P