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I'm doing a research project for one of my classes (which will hopefully turn into my psychology thesis and dissertation work) and I chose to focus on the prevalence of any type of mental illness in EMS (depression, PTSD, explosive rage, etc. etc.)
Here are a few things that I noticed that are really rather distubring (all of this could be extrapolated to police and fire, by the way):
Does anyone have a point of view on any of this?
Here are a few things that I noticed that are really rather distubring (all of this could be extrapolated to police and fire, by the way):
- there is a strong correlation between traumatic stressor exposure and the prevalence of increased stress levels suffered by EMTs/paramedics
- in one study, every single paramedic that was interviewed reported experiencing at least one traumatic situation from a list (including the death of a child, death of a coworker, MCI, etc.)
- every one of my sources acknowledged that there is a significant deficit in the amount of support (family, friend, community, and corporate) for EMTs/paramedics, though none of the sources actually gave any opinion on how this issue should be dealt with
- that there is startling little research done on this topic
Does anyone have a point of view on any of this?