Table 1.

Characteristics of the worked-related traumatic events that participants had intrusive memories from and prior experiences of traumatic events reported per participant.

Variable	Participanta	Participant	Participant
Time(s) of trauma	Between 1 and 3 months ago	Between 1 and 3 months; within the last 24 hours	Between 1 and 3 months ago; ongoing exposure
Traumatic event causing intrusive memories	Traumatic or tragic patient death; situation in which patient care did not work as planned	Traumatic or tragic patient death	Situation in which patient care did not work as planned; confronted with distressed family members of patients; other category: relative who did not dare to say farewell to a patient who was critically ill
Retrospectively rated number of intrusions in the week before study participationb	2	3	3
Prior experiences of traumatic event types (LEC-5c,d)	6	12	10

^aParticipant numbers are omitted to preserve anonymity.

^bAssessed via a single item retrospective rating.

^cLEC-5: Life Events Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th Edition).

^dA list of 17 traumatic event types. Here, we report the number of event types endorsed as “happened to me,” “witnessed it,” or “part of my job” [39].