Kanana, Mwirigi Faith2024-11-052024-11-052017-06Kanana, M. F. (2017). Traumatic Stress Effects of Terrorist Attack: A Case of The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Bomb Blast Survivors. Daystar University, School of Applied Human Scienceshttps://repository.daystar.ac.ke/handle/123456789/5613MASTER OF ARTS in Counseling PsychologyMost people exposed to trauma continue to experience psychological symptoms that are related to the critical event including trauma related disorders in the months and years following exposure. The purpose of this study was to investigate the traumatic stress effects of the August 7th 1998 terrorist attack among bomb blast survivors deployed at the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Headquarters. The study applied a cross-sectional research design and the target population was 232 survivors who were censured and filled in self-administered questionnaires through the socio-demographic, Beck‘s depression inventory-II (BDI-II), Beck‘s anxiety inventory-II (BAI-II), Trauma history and severity of post-traumatic stress symptoms-adult national stressful events survey (PTSD), short scale (NSESSS) and alcohol use disorder identification test (AUDIT). SPSS version 21 was used in data analysis. The results indicated that females (70.1%) had higher prevalence of medical conditions compared to males (54.6%) p=0.012, males had a lower prevalence of anxiety (37.9%), depression (31.6%) and Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) (105% compared to females (62.0%) p<0.001, (48.9%) p=0.006 and (1.5%) p=0.012 respectively. PTSD scores were positively correlated with: BDI scores (r=0.434) p<0.001, AUD scores (r=0.178) p=0.007 and BAI scores r=0.629) p<0.001 and predictors of persistent PTSD were: being female (OR=4.102; 95% CI: 1.761-7.018; p=0.018), having anxiety (OR=4.319; 95% CI: 1.109-16.819; p=0.035) and having depression (OR=4.419; 95% CI: 1.451 – 13.3569; p=0.009). The respondents received good care and support from their communities, believed in God and continued accessing both medical and psychological services.entraumapsychological symptomstraumatic stressterrorist attackThesis