ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Role Identity, Dissonance, and Distress among Paramedics.
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- Protocol for a study on the mental health and well-being of "Forgotten" first responders in Canada.PloS one · 2026Article
- Translation and psychometric evaluation of the Witness Perceived Safety Scale of prehospital emergency care.BMC emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Using an analytic auto-netnographic approach to explore the perceptions of paramedics in primary care.British paramedic journal · 2024Article
- 'We are expected to be problem solvers'-Paramedics' performance expectations through the lens of organizational socialization: An interview study.Nursing open · 2024Article
- Role identities of emergency medical services personnel and their associations with intention to leave the profession.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Identifying Features of a System of Practice to Inform a Contemporary Competency Framework for Paramedics in Canada.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Associations between paramedics' salutogenic health experience and the intention to stay in the profession: A cross-sectional survey.Nursing open · 2024Article
- 'I've got no PPE to protect my mind': understanding the needs and experiences of first responders exposed to trauma in the workplace.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- An Integrative Systematic Review of Promoting Patient Safety Within Prehospital Emergency Medical Services by Paramedics: A Role Theory Perspective.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Review
- Financial medicine as a source of moral distress: An unrecognised pathway to moral injury in the South African EMS systems.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2023Article
- Exploring paramedic professional identity.British paramedic journal · 2023Article
- Paramedics' perceptions of job demands and resources in Finnish emergency medical services: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Identity, positionality and reflexivity: relevance and application to research paramedics.British paramedic journal · 2022Article
- Recent Paramedic Graduates' Chronic Stress Adds Intentions to Leave the Profession: A Pilot Study Utilizing a Web-Based Survey.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
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Abstract
Role identity theory describes the purpose and meaning in life that comes, in part, from occupying social roles. While robustly linked to health and wellbeing, this may become unideal when an individual is unable to fulfill the perceived requirements of an especially salient role in the manner that they believe they should. Amid high rates of mental illness among public safety personnel, we interviewed a purposely selected sample of 21 paramedics from a single service in Ontario, Canada, to explore incongruence between an espoused and able-to-enact paramedic role identity. Situated in an interpretivist epistemology and using successive rounds of thematic analysis, we developed a framework for role identity dissonance wherein chronic, identity-relevant disruptive events cause emotional and psychological distress. While some participants were able to recalibrate their sense of self and understanding of the role, for others, this dissonance was irreconcilable, contributing to disability and lost time from work. In addition to contributing a novel perspective on paramedic mental health and wellbeing, our work also offers a modest contribution to the theory in using the paramedic context as an example to consider identity disruption through chronic workplace stress.
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