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

Author(s) -

Beaton Randal,

Murphy Shirley,

Johnson Clark,

Pike Ken,

Corneil Wayne

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

journal of traumatic stress

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259

H-Index - 134

eISSN - 1573-6598

pISSN - 0894-9867

DOI - 10.1023/a:1024461920456

Subject(s) - stressor , incident report , recall , injury prevention , medicine , occupational safety and health , suicide prevention , psychology , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , medical emergency , clinical psychology , psychiatry , forensic engineering , pathology , engineering , cognitive psychology

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 Co‐worker, Gruesome victim Incidents, Render Aid to Seriously Injured, Vulnerable Victims, Minor Injury to Self and Death & Dying Exposure .

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