Attitudes to living and working in pandemic conditions among emergency prehospital medical care personnel

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-19

  Watt, Kerrianne ^a,b   Tippett, Vivienne C ^a,b   Raven, Steven G ^a   Jamrozik, Konrad ^c   Coory, Michael ^b,d   Archer, Frank ^e   Kelly, Heath A ^f  

^a Queensland Government Department of Emergency Services   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

Author keywords

attitudes; emergency medical services; infection control; influenza; pandemic; prehospital; risk perceptions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MALE; PERCEPTION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 78651358874     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00007597     Document Type: Article

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