Experience of critical incident stress among ambulance service staff and relationship to psychological symptoms

International Journal of Emergency Mental Health

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 235-248

  Gallagher, Sharon ^a   McGilloway, Sinéad ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Critical Incident Stress; Emergency medical controllers; Emergency medical technicians; Quantitative research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPERSONALIZATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IRELAND; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PERSONALITY TEST; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESCUE PERSONNEL; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMBULANCES; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPERSONALIZATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRELAND; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951170671     PISSN: 15224821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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