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Purpose: Ambulance workers are intense witnesses of traumatic life events due to their professions. The purpose of this testimony is to explore the extent of life experiences affecting their lives mentally, looking at the signs of post-traumatic stress and depression. Method: The examples of the study are 59 ambulance employees, including 27 women and 32 men, who work at the Mersin Emergency Health Services Stations. Data collection tools have been used as Personal Information Form, Professional Information Form, Traumatic Stress Sign Scale, Yeti Loss Form and Beck Depression Scale. Identifying statistics are given with percentage, average, standard deviation values. Data analysis used Mann Whitney-U test, student t test, One-Way Anova test, Ki-Care test, pearson or spearman correlation analysis. Results: Traumatic stress disorder diagnosed in ambulance workers with professional trauma experiences was 16.9% and depression symptoms were observed at 47.4% in the light, medium and severe range. Participants have a meaningful relationship in the positive direction between the lower scales and the total score of the traumatic stress symptoms scale and the Beck Depression scale score (p<0,05). Post-traumatic stress disorder and depression in women compared to men; symptoms of resuscitation have been found higher than high school graduates. Results: The research results show that ambulance workers with professional trauma experiences experience traumatic stress and symptoms of depression. Ambulance employees are advised to add protective professional consultancy practices to corporate strategy systems to prevent traumatic stress and symptoms of depression.

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