Daily stress and concept of self in Swedish ambulance personnel

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 226-234

  Jonsson, Anders ^a   Segesten, Kerstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ambulance personnel; impact of event scale; post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); predictors; professional self description form (PSDF); stress; traumatic events; working environment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; EMERGENCY NURSING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SELF CONCEPT; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AMBULANCES; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; EMERGENCY NURSING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SWEDEN;

EID: 16544383248     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00001825     Document Type: Article

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