Psychological Distress in Emergency Medical Services Practitioners: Identifying and Measuring the Issues

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dc.contributor.advisorDoig, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorLefevre, Nicola Louise
dc.contributor.committeememberMitchell, Ian
dc.contributor.committeememberPage, Stacy
dc.contributor.committeememberGuichon, Juliet
dc.contributor.committeememberMcLaughlin, Kevin
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-29T18:48:45Z
dc.date.available2017-09-29T18:48:45Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.date.submitted2017en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates psychological distress in Emergency Medical Services practitioners through three pieces of inter-related research. The first examines the prevalence of compassion fatigue in all health care practitioners by systematic review of literature. The second conceptualizes three manifestations of distress (compassion fatigue, burnout, and post-traumatic stress disorder), places them in the context of EMS work by describing practitioners’ experience, and broadly strategizes ways to address them. The third measures the presence of compassion fatigue, burnout, and post-traumatic stress disorder in a sample of EMS practitioners through a survey based study. Overall, the research showed that EMS practitioners are experiencing psychological distress as compassion fatigue, burnout and PTSD, and that compassion fatigue has been identified across diverse practitioner groups in health care. Recommendations are consistently made that further research needs to be conducted to investigate root causes, and that education and support programs would be of benefit to practitioners.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLefevre, N. L. (2017). Psychological Distress in Emergency Medical Services Practitioners: Identifying and Measuring the Issues (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27476en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/27476
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/4181
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectMedicine and Surgery
dc.subjectMental Health
dc.subjectOccupational Health and Safety
dc.subject.otherPsychological Distress
dc.subject.otherCompassion Fatigue
dc.subject.otherPTSD
dc.subject.otherBurnout
dc.subject.otherEmergency Medical Services
dc.subject.otherParamedic
dc.titlePsychological Distress in Emergency Medical Services Practitioners: Identifying and Measuring the Issues
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineMedical Science
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science (MSc)
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