OBJECTIVE: To explore the emotional health of journalists covering the migrations of refugees across Europe. DESIGN: Descriptive. A secure website was established and participants were given their unique identifying number and password to access the site. SETTING: Newsrooms and in the field. PARTICIPANTS: Responses were received from 80 (70.2%) of 114 journalists from nine news organisations. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Symptoms of PTSD (Impact of Events Scale-revised), depression (Beck Depression Inventory-Revised) and moral injury (Moral Injury Events Scale-revised). RESULTS: ) ranged from .47 to .71. CONCLUSIONS: On one level, the relatively low scores on conventional psychometric measures of PTSD and depression are reassuring. However, our data confirm that moral injury is a different construct from DSM-defined trauma response syndromes, one that potentially comes with its own set of long-term maladaptive behaviours and adjustment problems.
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Feinstein et al. (2018) studied this question.