ArticleThe Journal of nervous and mental disease2018
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Suicide Risk in Male Firefighters: The Mediating Role of Anxiety Sensitivity.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Silent crisis on the frontlines: a systematic review of suicidal behaviors among disaster responders - epidemiology, risk pathways, and evidence-based interventions.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2025Pooled it
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- Anxiety sensitivity and suicidal ideation/suicide risk: A meta-analysis.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2018Pooled it
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- Is rumination only negative? Effects of belief in a just world on PTSD symptoms in firefighters: a moderated mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Admiration and motivation: key factors in managing PTSD among firefighters.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Trauma Exposure and Suicidal Ideation among Korean Male Firefighters: Examining the Moderating Roles of Organizational Climate.Safety and health at work · 2023Article
- Mental health of UK firefighters.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Putative risk and resiliency factors among Royal Canadian Mounted Police cadets.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- PTSD and PTG in French and American Firefighters: A Comparative Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Dynamic Psychotherapy as a PTSD Treatment for Firefighters: A Case Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Alexithymia and Emotional Deficits Related to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Investigation of Content and Process Disturbances.Case reports in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Prevalence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among Firefighters in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2020Review
- Does Emotional Labor Increase the Risk of Suicidal Ideation among Firefighters?Yonsei medical journal · 2020Article
- The Impact of Intolerance of Uncertainty and Anxiety Sensitivity on Mental Health Among Public Safety Personnel: When the Uncertain is Unavoidable.Cognitive therapy and research · 2020Article
- Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and mindfulness facets in relation to suicide risk among firefighters.Journal of clinical psychology · 2019Article
- Occupational stress and suicidality among firefighters: Examining the buffering role of distress tolerance.Psychiatry research · 2018Article
- Anxiety sensitivity and suicide risk among firefighters: A test of the depression-distress amplification model.Comprehensive psychiatry · 2018Article
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms are positively related to suicide risk among firefighters. One mechanism that may account for this relationship is anxiety sensitivity (AS) cognitive concerns-the fear that cognitive symptoms of anxiety will have catastrophic consequences. We sought to replicate the mediating effect of AS cognitive concerns on the relationship between PTSD symptoms and suicide risk among 214 trauma-exposed male firefighters with non-zero suicide risk. Bootstrap mediation analyses tested AS cognitive concerns as a statistical mediator of PTSD symptoms (total and symptoms clusters scores) and suicide risk, controlling for depression symptoms and relevant demographic variables. AS cognitive concerns statistically mediated the relationship between PTSD symptoms (total score, as well as intrusion, avoidance, and arousal-reactivity symptoms clusters) and suicide risk; however, the reverse was also true. AS cognitive concerns may confer risk for suicide among trauma-exposed firefighters. Firefighters may benefit from AS-specific interventions, which are shown to reduce PTSD symptoms and suicidality.
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