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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"firefighters"”.
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Health of Indiana Firefighters
Background: Firefighters are exposed to carcinogens, toxic agents, and other risks for cancer and cardiovascular disease. Research shows that aero-digestive and genitourinary cancers are in excess among firefighters compared to the general population. Studies examining excess cardiovascular …
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Outcome Coping Efficacy of Firefighters
… of Outcome Coping Efficacy may be of help to firefighters for rehabilitative efforts after traumatic incidents.
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Hydration Delivery Systems for Wildland Firefighters
… both physical and cognitive function. Wildland firefighters (WLFF) experience long arduous work shifts under extreme environmental conditions. Previous studies by our lab have demonstrated that maintenance of euhydration during fire suppression can be difficult. Purpose: The purpose of this …
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Hydration Delivery Systems for Wildland Firefighters
… both physical and cognitive function. Wildland firefighters (WLFF) experience long arduous work shifts under extreme environmental conditions. Previous studies by our lab have demonstrated that maintenance of euhydration during fire suppression can be difficult. Purpose: The purpose of this …
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Assessment of Psychological Functioning in Retired Firefighters
… attention directed to mental health problems in firefighters. The basis for heightened activity in this area is the convergence of evidence indicating that firefighters demonstrate significantly high levels of psychological disorders such as depression and PTSD (Henderson et al., 2016). A …
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Occupational related consequences for relatives of firefighters
Firefighters are exposed to a high prevalence of both occupational and traumatic stress, consequently protective factors, such as social support, become highly relevant to the well-being of this population. Accordingly the psychological health of firefighters is maintained, in part, by their family …
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Stress in firefighters: situations, reactions and interactions
… out to determine how experience and training in firefighters affected their reactions to situations they encountered at work. The first three studies used quantitative and qualitative techniques to identify those situations which firefighters found to be significant to them in terms of varying …
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Resilience Training for Firefighters: A Proposed Approach
In the course of doing their jobs, firefighters unavoidably experience stressful and even traumatic situations that can lead to emotional and behavioral health problems including anxiety, burnout, depression, alcoholism, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, and suicide. Current …
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F.I.RE. fighters: Fitness intervention in recruit firefighters
As a population, firefighters are at high risk for many health-related issues (e.g., sudden cardiac events, obesity, hypertension, fatigue, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety). Physical activity (i.e., exercise) is one the most effective strategies firefighters can use to prevent …
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The Assessment of Burnout and Resilience in Firefighters
… to identify factors that promote resilience in firefighters and examine their relationship to level of burnout. A series of six mediation analyses were conducted to evaluate whether resilience mediates the relationship between these individual, resilience-promoting factors (e.g., hope, optimism, …
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Foundation for Evaluating Injured Firefighters Returning to Work
… opinions and beliefs of healthcare providers and firefighters. The final samples included 63 California healthcare providers (with and without professional work experience with firefighters) and 312 California firefighters. Most of the healthcare providers with professional work experience with …
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Suicidality in Firefighters: Exploring Occupational, Psychological, and Cultural Determinants
Background: Suicidality is more prevalent among firefighters in comparison to the general population. Research suggests that trauma exposure while on duty may be associated with the increased prevalence of suicidality in firefighters. Duty-related trauma exposure has been previously associated with …
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Examining the effectiveness of online wildland firefighting education for structural firefighters
<p>Because many structural firefighters throughout the United States often respond to wildland fires in the Wildland/Urban Interface, the National Fire Academy developed an online educational curriculum to train structural firefighters in the basics of wildland fire fighting tactics. This training …
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Firefighters: attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that contribute to high-risk behaviors
… that contribute to risk-taking intentions among firefighters. To examine if attitudes have an effect on risk-taking intentions, the Theory of Planned Behavior by Ajzen (TPB; 1988, 1991, 2001) was applied. A questionnaire and scenarios were developed to assess the TPB. Further interest was if …
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Actual and Perceived Physical Fitness in a Sample of Washington, D.C. Firefighters
<p>Fitness is essential to firefighters in performing their jobs. Accurate perception of fitness is essential for making behavioral changes necessary to improve fitness. Little research is available comparing actual and perceived fitness in a firefighter population.</p> <p>This study establishes …
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Fireline, divided : labor representation of unionized and incarcerated firefighters in California's wildlands
In California, up to 40 percent of the state's firefighters are incarcerated people working in a prison labor program called the Conservation Camp Program at small, rural prisons known as "fire camps." There are 43 fire camps throughout the state that house up to 4,500 incarcerated people and are …
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Depressive symptoms and metabolic syndrome risk factors in male and female Coloradan firefighters
… Fire Protection Association, as many as 37% of firefighters exhibit PTSD symptoms. Depression, distressed sleep, and PTSD are only a few symptoms associated with the rise in suicide rates among firefighters in recent years. Firefighters are also four times more likely to encounter a …
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The relationship between time on the job and compassion/satisfaction fatigue in firefighters
First Responders such as firefighters who experience disasters and observe traumatic events may be at risk for generalized stress resulting from the type of work they do. Studies suggest that the more a person is subjected to traumatic incidents, the more they are at risk. This study assessed the …
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Feeling the Burn: A Discursive Analysis of Organizational Burnout in Seasonal Wildland Firefighters
This qualitative study of seasonal wildland firefighters examined stress and burnout in firefighters, the discourse that helps to systematically form firefighters’ conceptualizations of burnout, and what factors enable firefighters to manage or mitigate burnout. Traditionally, burnout is studied in …
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Feeling the Burn: A Discursive Analysis of Organizational Burnout in Seasonal Wildland Firefighters
This qualitative study of seasonal wildland firefighters examined stress and burnout in firefighters, the discourse that helps to systematically form firefighters’ conceptualizations of burnout, and what factors enable firefighters to manage or mitigate burnout. Traditionally, burnout is studied in …
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