Acute and chronic job stressors among ambulance personnel: Predictors of health symptoms

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Van Der Ploeg, E ^a   Kleber, Rolf J ^a,b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Institute for Psychotrauma   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FATIGUE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WORK DISABILITY;

ADULT; AMBULANCES; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0038143366     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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