Psychological first aid intervention: rescue from psychological distress and improving the pre-licensure nursing students’ resilience amidst COVID-19 crisis and beyond [PDF]
Scientific African, 2023 Background: The public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in mental and psychological ramifications on the healthcare professionals.
Rasha Salah Eweida +4 more
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Validation and assessment of the arabic psychological first aid scale among physicians, nurses, and counselors in Jordan [PDF]
BMC PsychologyBackground Psychological first aid (PFA) involves strategies to tackle problems that occur as a result of disasters. This study aimed to validate the Arabic version of PFA scale through validity (face, content, convergent, discriminant validity, and ...
Basma Eid Alshareef +3 more
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Effectiveness of psychological first aid in infectious disease pandemics: An overview of systematic reviews [PDF]
PCN Reports, 2023 There is insufficient research on the usefulness of psychological interventions, such as psychological first aid (PFA), during outbreaks. We searched for and critically appraised systematic reviews that examined the effectiveness of PFA during infectious
Masahide Koda +8 more
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Evaluating the effectiveness of psychological first aid training for disaster nursing: a mixed-method study [PDF]
BMC NursingBackground Psychological first aid (PFA) training significantly improves appropriate psychosocial response and PFA skills in supporting people in acute distress, thus increasing self-efficacy and promoting resilience. Nevertheless, nurses’ perceptions of
Emel Bahadır Yılmaz
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The effect of psychological first-aid virtual education on the communication skills of nurses in disasters: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
BMC PsychologyBackground Disasters have affected the physical and mental health of people around the world. Since nurses are frontlines in disasters, it seems necessary to prepare for this responsibility.
Sayed Mohammad Sadegh Madani +4 more
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The effect of a single session of psychological first aid in the emergency department on PTSD and depressive symptoms three months post-intervention: results of a randomised controlled trial [PDF]
European Journal of PsychotraumatologyBackground: Despite its popularity, evidence of the effectiveness of Psychological First Aid (PFA) is scarce.Objective: To assess whether PFA, compared to psychoeducation (PsyEd), an attention placebo control, reduces PTSD and depressive symptoms three ...
Rodrigo Andrés Figueroa +6 more
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Implementing psychological first aid ontology. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundThis study develops an ontology of Psychological First Aid (PFA) by extracting relevant knowledge from a review of PFA literature.Materials and methodsThis study was conducted using the PFA ontology development 101 method. This review processes
Hyun-Ok Jung, Seung-Woo Han
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Psychological First Aid by AI: Proof-of-Concept and Comparative Performance of ChatGPT-4 and Gemini in Different Disaster Scenarios. [PDF]
J Clin PsycholObjective This study aimed to evaluate the performance and proof‐of‐concept of psychological first aid (PFA) provided by two AI chatbots, ChatGPT‐4 and Gemini.
Tan JT +7 more
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Psychological First Aid for People Affected by Skin Diseases [PDF]
Indian Dermatology Online JournalSkin diseases, apart from the visible symptoms, can have devastating consequences like depression, anxiety, stigma, or suicidal ideation. These consequently can impact the daily activities and impair socio-occupational functionality.
Aseem Mehra +2 more
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HSN-helping in mental distress: a new emotion focused psychological first aid program. [PDF]
Front Public HealthPsychological first aid programs aim to train lay people to help others who are experiencing a mental health crisis or developing mental health problems. The current article introduces the new German psychological first aid training program HSN.
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