Clinical and psychological characteristics of people in dangerous professions with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Introduction. Given the increasing number of stressful events in modern life and the increasing number of conflicts, the study of the clinical and psychological characteristics of respondents with PTSD is an urgent task.The study aims to research the occupational, clinical and psychological characteristics of people in dangerous professions with an established diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) F43.1 in the classification (ICD-10).Materials and methods. The study included 102 patients aged 36-54 years with PTSD who were undergoing rehabilitation in a department for war veterans. The researchers conducted a comprehensive clinical, neurological, and psychological study to assess the psychological state, as well as the severity of PTSD symptoms. They studied and assessed the severity of PTSD symptoms using standard psychometric methods (Trauma Screening Questionnaire — a short questionnaire for screening; Clinical-Administered PTSD Scale — a scale for clinical diagnosis of PTSD; Impact of Event Scale-R — a scale for assessing the impact of a traumatic event; Taylor's Manifest). Anxiety Scale — Taylor's Personal Anxiety Scale; Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale — Tsung Anxiety Self-Assessment Scale; Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale — Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; State-Trail Anxiety Inventory — reactive and personal anxiety Scale; Beck Depression Inventory — Beck Depression Scale; Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale — Tsung Depression Self-Assessment Scale; PHQ-9 — depression questionnaire; Beck hopelessness scale.Results. Occupational studies have shown that the work of military personnel is caused by the constant exposure to extreme stress factors, in some cases, work is associated with flammable and explosive objects. The nervous and emotional stress of the work of workers in military professions belonged to the 3rd class of the 3rd degree and the 2nd degree of harmfulness. Respondents with PTSD were characterized by heterogeneity of clinical and psychological characteristics, the severity and diversity of which varied depending on the severity and duration of the traumatic event.Limitations. There are quantitative limitations due to the number of contingents surveyed.Conclusion. The results obtained indicate the need to take into account the neuropsychiatric stress of work, the clinical and psychological characteristics of people in dangerous professions with signs of PTSD in order to optimize approaches to correcting the disorders identified in respondents, improving their quality of life and adaptation.Ethics. The completed study did not require the conclusion of the Ethics Committee.Contributions:Kozlov S.E. — concept, design of the study;Samuilova V.A. — research design, text writing, editing;Serikov V.V. — concept, research design, editing;Slyusar I.N. — conducting research, description and registration of results, analysis and statistical processing of data;Yushkova O.I. — data analysis and interpretation, text writing.Funding. The study had no funding.Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest.Received: 29.01.2026 / Accepted: 04.02.2026 / Published: 27.03.2026