The psychological trauma of COVID-19 exposure

“The war is here!” anxiety, trauma centrality, and the mediating role of daily stressors in Romanian and Ukrainian civilians.

“…The Centrality of Event Scale (Berntsen & Rubin, 2006) was used to assess trauma centrality. This scale has been previously used for studies in the Romanian population (Herța et al, 2021). The scale contains 20 items (e.g., “This event has become a reference point for the way I understand new experiences.”) and was rated on a 5-point Likert scale, with 1 representing totally disagree and 5 representing totally agree .…”

War’s unseen wounds: Physical proximity to the war, event centrality, and PTSD symptoms in the context of Russian–Ukrainian armed conflict: A moderating model.

“…The Centrality of Event Scale (Berntsen & Rubin, 2006) was used to assess event centrality. This scale has previously been employed in research involving both the Romanian population (Herța et al, 2021; Huțul et al, 2023) and the Ukrainian population (Huțul et al, 2023). The scale contains 20 items (e.g., “My life story can be divided into two main chapters: one is before and one is after this event happened,” just as in the original instrument: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3974102/pdf/nihms-552359.pdf) and was rated on a 5-point Likert scale, where 1 = totally disagree and 5 = totally agree .…”

Considerations About the Impact of Permacrisis on People Living in Romania

“…The healthcare system itself has undergone an entire reorganisation process in the need to find therapeutic solutions for people (Scalia et al, 2022). New medication and vaccines were created and implemented in a fast pace, but the long-term effects of the disease and of vaccination are still difficult to measure and require extensive analysis (Herța et al, 2021).…”

“…the subsequent evolution. This is a lifelong process and is dependent on the subjective experience and support available to the affected person (Herța et al, 2021).…”