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Mental health of UK firefighters
Scientific Reports, 2023 Exposure to trauma, high-stress situations, and disrupted sleep are well known risk factors affecting firefighters’ mental health. Little is known about the association between firefighters’ exposure to fire contaminants and mental health disorders.
Taylor A. M. Wolffe +4 more
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, 2021 This entry has been realised in the framework of the H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 project “LoGov - Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay”. LoGov aims to provide solutions for local governments that address the fundamental challenges resulting from urbanisation.
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Sleep Patterns of Firefighters with Shift Working Schedules in Seoul Metropolitan Area [PDF]
Sleep Medicine Research, 2017 Background and Objective Firefighters suffer from irregular and inadequate sleep, often due to their shift work schedule. The purpose of this study was to investigate the shift work schedules and their effects on the quality of sleep in Korean ...
Hyun Woo Kim +6 more
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Physical fitness levels of South Korean national male and female firefighters
Journal of Exercise Science & Fitness, 2020 Background/Objecitves: Fire-fighting is highly required with aerobic fitness, strength, and body composition. However, there is a lack of comprehensive physical fitness data for South Korean firefighters.
Kyoungmin Noh +11 more
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PSICOLOGIA, 2023 Firefighters have high exposure to traumatic events and have an increased risk of developing symptoms related to trauma. The current study assessed the psychological morbidity, empathy and alexithymia of volunteer firefighters compared to career firefighters and to non-firefighter comparators from the general population. Group differences were assessed
Rodrigues,Fabiana +4 more
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Journal of Safety and SustainabilityEquipment malfunctions and failures are a common cause of workplace injury. Here, we examined experiences with equipment, vehicles, and infrastructure malfunctions and failures, associated injuries, illnesses and casualties, and confidence in repair and ...
Grace DeBusschere +5 more
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Theoretical Computer Science, 2019 In the Firefighter problem, introduced by Hartnell in 1995, a fire spreads through a graph while a player chooses which vertices to protect in order to contain it. In this paper, we focus on the case of trees and we consider as well the Fractional Firefighter game where the amount of protection allocated to a vertex lies between 0 and 1.
Coupechoux, Pierre +3 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Identification of protective factors to prevent firefighters' anxiety and depression is meaningful. We explored whether emotion-regulation strategies mediate the relationship between personality traits and anxiety and depression among Chinese ...
Yanqiang Tao +8 more
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The impact of fire suppression tasks on firefighter hydration: A critical review with consideration of the utility of reported hydration measures [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Firefighting is a highly stressful occupation with unique physical challenges, apparel and environments that increase the potential for dehydration.
Orr, Robin Marc +2 more
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IDO-expressing Fibroblasts Suppress the Development of Imiquimod-induced Psoriasis-like Dermatitis
Cell Transplantation, 2018 Psoriasis is a chronic skin condition whose pathogenesis is reported to be due to the activation of the interleukin-23/interleukin-17 (IL-23/IL-17) pathway. Here, we report that indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO)-expressing fibroblasts reduce the activity
Sanam Salimi Elizei +5 more
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