Exposure to duty-related incident stressors in urban firefighters and paramedics

被引:115
作者
Beaton, R
Murphy, S
Johnson, C
Pike, K
Corneil, W
机构
[1] Univ Washington, Sch Nursing, Dept Psychosocial & Community Hlth, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[2] Univ Washington, Sch Nursing, Dept Biobehav Nursing & Hlth Syst, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[3] Univ Ottawa, Sch Med, Community Med & Epidemiol, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
关键词
posttraumatic stress; duty-related traumata; emergency workers; incident stressors;
D O I
10.1023/A:1024461920456
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
Little is known about the variables that might be associated with posttraumatic stress symptomatology in high-risk occupational groups such as professional firefighters and paramedics. A sample of 173 urban professional firefighter/EMT's and firefighter/paramedics rated and ranked the stressfulness of 33 actual and/or potential duty-related incident stressors. They also reported whether they had experienced each of these incident stressors within the past 6 months and, if they had, to recall on how many occasions within the past 6 months. A principal components analysis of their rescaled incident stressor ratings yielded five components: Catastrophic Injury to Self or Go-worker, Gruesome Victim Incidents, Render Aid to Seriously Injured, Vulnerable Victims, Minor Injury to Self and Death & Dying Exposure.
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页码:821 / 828
页数:8
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