TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - Exposure to duty-related incident stressors in urban firefighters and paramedics
JO  - Journal of Traumatic Stress
A1  - Beaton, R.
A1  - Murphy, S.
A1  - Johnson, C.
A1  - Pike, K.
A1  - Corneil, W.
SP  - 821
EP  - 828
VL  - 11
IS  - 4
N2  - Little is known about the variables that might be associated with posttraumatic stress symptomatology in high-risk occupational groups such as professional firefighters and paramedics. A sample of 173 urban professional firefighter/EMT's and firefighter/paramedics rated and ranked the stressfulness of 33 actual and/or potential duty-related incident stressors. They also reported whether they had experienced each of these incident stressors within the past 6 months and, if they had, to recall on how many occasions within the past 6 months. A principal components analysis of their rescaled incident stressor ratings yielded five components: Catastrophic Injury to Self or Co-worker, Gruesome Victim Incidents, Render Aid to Seriously Injured, Vulnerable Victims, Minor Injury to Self and Death & Dying Exposure.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0894-9867
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1024461920456
ID  - ref1
ER  -