We investigated factors associated with increased risk for post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) in ambulance personnel and the barriers faced in accessing support for work-related …

Background: Evidence-based research has continually demonstrated the steadily rising
prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among ambulance personnel due to …

Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disease characterized by
exposure to threatened death or serious injury and directly experiencing or witnessing the …

Objectives: Ambulance workers belong to a high-risk occupational group, facing constant
threats to their health and lives. Therefore, they are prone to mental health problems such as …

The spiritual woundedness of official first responders is a problem that is not often
recognised or acknowledged by mental health practitioners. Holistic healing in mental …

Background: Pre-hospital emergency care workers (PECWs) often struggle to cope with an
increasingly hostile environment while on duty. As a result, the prevalence of post-traumatic …

Exposure to trauma has always been part of human existence (Marsella, Friedman & Spain,
1996). Extreme stress has been depicted by authors throughout the ages. In Homer's …

Objective: To determine the factors associated with an increased risk for PTSD in ambulance
personnel and the barriers faced in accessing support for work related stress (WRS) …

Posttraumatic stress disorder was first conceptualised as a normative reaction to traumatic
incidents and there are recent theorists who still maintain the same definition of the …

The aim of this qualitative study was to explore firefighters' perceptions of how their working
experiences and personal lives positively and negatively influence each other. The purpose …