ArticleFrontiers in psychology2023
Mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder in firefighters: an integrated analysis from an action research study.
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- Cross-Sectional Analysis of Psychological Mediators Between Occupational Trauma and PTSD in Metropolitan Firefighters.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
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- Neural underpinnings of ethical decisions in life and death dilemmas in naïve and expert firefighters.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Longitudinal assessment of psychological distress and its determinants in a sample of firefighters based in Montreal, Canada.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Introduction: The presence of post-traumatic stress disorder Method: From an initial sample of 283 firefighters who manifested interest in participating, a total of 139 firefighters from the Coimbra District, of whom 130 unequivocally experienced a potentially traumatic/adverse event as a firefighter, completed BSI (to obtain indicators on psychopathology), QEPAT (an inventory of adverse events possibly experienced as a firefighter), and PCL-5 (a measure of PTSD symptomatology) through an online survey during the year 2018 by the Regional Medical Organization, as proposed and supervised by the local Centre for Prevention and Treatment of Psychological Trauma (CPTTP). Results: We found a global prevalence of 8.6% of possible PTSD and 14.4% of possible psychopathology ( Discussion: The severe wildfires of 2017 did not impact PTSD scores in this sample (collected the year after), suggesting that cumulative adverse events are more important than particular episodes. However, the number of reported events was related to PTSD scores. These results can be used to develop interventions that target all firefighters by addressing risk and protective factors. This action research study motivated specialized aid for firefighters involved in this study.
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