Ihor Prykhodko, Yanina Matsehora, Oleksander Kolesnichenko, Maksim Baida, Oleksandr Vasylkovskyi (2023). The Psychological Recovery Program of Ukrainian Military Personnel after Completing Combat Missions In the Russian-Ukrainian War Československб psychologie 2023 / ročnнk LXVII / čнslo 6 DOI: 10.51561/cspsych.67.5.457

Objectives. With the start of the Russian-Ukrainian War, the Ukrainian military personnel are experiencing combat stress. Manifestations of acute stress reactions and post-traumatic stress symptoms require psychological assistance and recovery of the soldiers’ personal resources. This study aims to develop a psychological recovery program “Invincibility Program” for Ukrainian military personnel after performing combat missions to relieve the effects of chronic combat stress and to evaluate its effectiveness. 
Sample and settings. 1090 Ukrainian military personnel took part in the study, which had combat experience after February 24, 2022.
Hypothesis. The psychological recovery program will help to reduce the effects of combat stress on military personnel. 
Statistical analyses. The statistical analysis of the study results was carried out using the program SPSS 20.0. 
Results. The activities of the program led to an improvement in the mental state and positively significant changes in the well-being of the participants, the mobilization of psychological resources, and an increase in the resistance of soldiers to combat stress. A high level of subjective usefulness of the program was revealed. Limitations. This study was limited by not having an active comparison condition and by not having a longitudinal follow-up.
Keywords: posttraumatic stress, psychological recovery program, combatants, combat missions, Russian-Ukrainian War

HrynzovskyiА. М., Kalashchenko, S. I., Prykhodko, I. I., Lutsak, O. O., & Bielai, S. V. (2023). The Role of Psychological Selection of Applicants for Higher Education in Dangerous Professions. Clinical and Preventive Medicine, (7), 81-86. https://doi.org/10.31612/2616-4868.7.2023.11

The aim of the study. It was compared the adaptive potential and readiness to perform professional duties among the medical students and cadets of NANGU.
Materials and methods. There were 134 respondents, who took part in a survey which was based on «Adaptability» questionnaire by A. Maklakov. The total time of the survey was thirty minutes. The criteria included respondents at the age from 18-30 and their regular physical activity for at least three times a week. The criteria included respondents at the age from 18-30 and their regular physical activity for at least three times a week. Among the exclusion criteria were duty or night shift in the hospital, taking psychotropic drugs, acute respiratory viral diseases during the survey period.
Results and discussion. Average indices of NANGU cadets belong to the third group of human adaptive abilities (satisfactory abilities), meanwhile the medical students show the prevailing indices of the fourth group (unsatisfactory abilities). Medical students demonstrate lower indices of neuropsychological stability (28,13±12,97 c.u.), comparing to cadets (13,29±9,01 c.u.; t1-2 = 6,87, at p  0,001). The group of medical students demonstrates worse indices on all scales of the «Adaptability» questionnaire, except for the «Probability» scale, comparing to the group of NANGU cadets. It is worth mentioning that medical students reveal greater self-criticism, introversion, they tend to self-reflection that hinders the process of secondary adaptation in society and reduces resistance to stressful conditions.
Conclusions. It indicates a poor adaptation to the requirements of professional activity and determines the need to conduct mandatory psychological selection among medical students during admission to an educational institution. In the future, the level and development of adaptive capabilities of young professionals among students might become one of the main reasons for their change of professional area and subsequently might lead to significant loss of state economic resources which were spent on their training.
Keywords: students, emergency situation, adaptation, stressful sustainability, educational institution

Yanina Matsegora, Oleksandr Kolesnichenko, Ihor Prykhodko, Kateryna Marushchenko, Yurii Rumiantsev, Ihor Tovma, Roman Gakh, Dmytro Prikhodko (2023). Peculiarities of Military Values of Combatants with Signs of Post-traumatic Stress Reactions and Moral Traumas. Romanian Journal of Military Medicine March 26, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55453/rjmm.2023.126.4.6

Abstract. According to the results of the study, there were determined the peculiarities of military values of servicemen who participated in hostilities and had signs of PTSD and moral trauma. The study included 397 servicemen (aged 20 to 55 years) with combat experience. The study showed that PTSD and violation of moral normativity were closely related to unfavorable social conditions of performing combat tasks. Unlike PTSD, the moral normativity indicator was less tightly related to the immediate threat to life. The structure of values of the servicemen had no signs of PTSD as well as no violation of moral normativity consisted
of factors that indicated the value of teamwork, responsibilities for decisions and actions made based on ideas related to loyalty to the oath and the Motherland, resistance, and professionalism. For the servicemen who participated in hostilities who had violations of moral normativity, it was more important to have the ability to act following their conscience, not to lose dignity, and to remain honest in the faces of their brothers than to have professionalism, loyalty to the oath and the Motherland.
Keywords: values, violation of moral normativity, serviceman, combat experience, post-traumatic stress disorder