@article{ref1,
title=""Person under train" incidents: medical consequences for subway drivers",
journal="Psychosomatic medicine",
year="1992",
author="Theorell, T. and Leymann, H. and Jodko, M. and Konarski, K. and Norbeck, H. E. and Eneroth, P.",
volume="54",
number="4",
pages="480-488",
abstract="From the subway driver's point of view, a &quot;person under train&quot; (PUT) incident is a serious life event. This study focuses on the 1-year consequences of such events. Follow-up was made 3 weeks, 3 months, and 1 year after the event. Forty consecutive PUT subway drivers were followed. For each PUT driver, a control driver matched with regard to gender, age, and country of birth was followed at identical intervals. Main results: The PUT group had significantly more sick days during the interval from the event to 3 weeks later. During the period 3 weeks to 3 months after the event no difference between the groups was observed. From 3 months to 1 year after the PUT significantly more days were again reported by the PUT group. Thirty-eight percent in the PUT group versus 14% in the control group had at least 1 month of sickness absence during this period. A mild acute psychophysiological reaction was observed 3 weeks after the event, with elevated prolactin and increased sleep disturbance in the PUT group. Such acute reactions were transitory and not correlated with long-term sick leave, which was predicted independently, however, by a high plasma cortisol level (analyzed in men) and a high depression score. Drivers in the group with seriously injured victims were absent from work for longer periods than drivers in the groups with mildly injured or dead victims.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-3174",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}