Occupational stress among Japanese emergency medical technicians: Hyogo prefecture

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 115-121

  Okada, Naoki ^a   Ishii, Noboru ^a   Nakata, Minori ^b   Nakayama, Shinichi ^c  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^c Hyogo Prefecture Emergency Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

emergency medical service; emergency medical technician; mental stress; occupational stress; paramedic, questionnaire survey; somatic stress; stress management

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; MENTAL STRESS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESCUE PERSONNEL;

DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; HUMANS; JAPAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 20344369767     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00002296     Document Type: Article

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