the relationship between anger with general health in emergency personnel

Context: the emergency staff work in stressful environments and deal with critically ill patients. theoccupational nature of their work is such that they are always at risk of being exposed to work violenceby patients or patient companions.aim: the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between anger with general health inemergency personnel.setting and design: this was a correlational study that was done in prehospital emergency services andhospital emergency departments in golestan province, in iran in 2019.materials and methods: the study conducted on 400 of emergency personnel. samples were selectedthrough multistage sampling. the sampling design included stratified sampling, cluster sampling, andconvenience sampling in the first, second, and third stage, respectively. data were collected usingdemographic, spielberger’s anger, and general health questionnaires.statistical analysis used: description of sample under study presented using mean, standard deviation,and frequency. assessment of associations was performed using mann– whitney and correlational analysisat significance level of 0.05.results: the mean total score of anger of emergency personnel was 121.94 ± 14.66 and for the prehospitaland hospital emergency personnel were 123.53 ± 14.08 and 119.38 ± 15.26, respectively (p = 0.002).the mean total score of general health was 12.40 ± 4.22 and for prehospital emergency and emergencypersonnel were 12.23 ± 4.18 and 12.67 ± 4.29, respectively (p = 0.75). there was a positive and significantcorrelation between all three dimensions of general health and all three dimensions of anger so that withincreasing anger, general health decreased.conclusion: emergency personnel were in good general health while their anger score was above average.furthermore, there was a significant inverse correlation between anger and mental health, so that by increasingthe dimensions of anger expression, the general health of prehospital and hospital emergency staff was reduced.