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Earlier than too late: stopping stress & suicide among emergency personnel. First responders keep killing themselves--why is that, and what can we do about it?
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This article is published in EMS world.The article was published on 2014-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 10 citations till now.read more
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Describing the Mental Health Profile of First Responders: A Systematic Review [Formula: see text].
TL;DR: Findings pose significant implications for psychiatric nurses in practice and research, including the need for tailored strategies to meet the mental health needs of this at-risk population.
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Secondary traumatic stress and resilience among EMS
TL;DR: The positive and negative psychological adaptations that are a result of secondary traumatic stress, and the role of resilience among paramedics and emergency workers, are investigated.
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Expert or peer? Understanding the implications of virtual advisor identity on emergency rescuer empowerment in mobile psychological self-help services
TL;DR: A low-cost and widely deployable strategy for empowering emergency rescuers through an intelligent mobile psychological self-help tool that will help reduce the gap between the limited number of qualified professional counsellors and the high demand for timely psychological support by rescuers.
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Emergency Response Services Suicide: A Crisis in Canada?
TL;DR: It is revealed that research has primarily focused on the traumatic stress and critical incidents encountered by emergency responders, while little research has been conducted specifically on suicide within these professions.
Suicide among Emergency Responders in Minnesota: The Role of Education
Abstract: The primary purpose of this quantitative study is to understand suicide among emergency responders. The secondary purpose is to examine how educators can use information about suicide among emergency responders to develop and adapt curriculum to mitigate psychological trauma experienced by those in emergency medical services (EMS), the fire service, and law enforcement. I use social cognitive theory to investigate responder suicide and as a framework to understand the role of education. Official death records were cross-referenced with data possessed by responder credentialing agencies. I analyzed the records to determine the suicide rates of responders compared to the general population and a matched set of responders who did not die of suicide. I also analyzed educational factors hypothesized to confer protection against psychological trauma and suicide, including EMS credential level, academic education level, attainment of firefighter or law enforcement training, and various combinations of credential, education, and fire or police training. The findings suggest that emergency responders have a higher suicide rate compared to the general population. Responders who die by suicide generally have higher levels of education. Being a responder without an EMS credential confers the most protection while the interactive effects of credential and education have significant (p < .05) association with suicide. The impact of psychological trauma is the same regardless of the responder field of practice.