Public Safety Personnel Family Resilience: A Narrative Review. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 The families of public safety personnel (PSP) face demands that are unique to these occupations. Nonstandard work, trauma exposure, and dangerous work environments affect both workers and the families who support them. This narrative review aims to identify the stressors that PSP families experience and the support and resources needed to enhance ...
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Coping among public safety personnel: A systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
Stress Health, 2021 AbstractPublic safety personnel (PSP) are routinely exposed to potentially psychologically traumatic events (PPTEs) that, in turn, can result in posttraumatic stress injuries (PTSI), including burnout and increased symptoms of depression and anxiety. However, the longitudinal impact of PPTEs on PSP coping remains unclear.
Di Nota PM +4 more
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Stakeholder experiences of a public safety personnel work reintegration program
Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2023 Public safety personnel (PSP) are at risk of experiencing operational stress injuries (OSIs). The functional impairments caused by OSIs can contribute to challenges with returning to pre-injury operational requirements.
Chelsea Jones +6 more
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Functional disconnection and reconnection: an alternative strategy to stoicism in public safety personnel [PDF]
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2021 Background: North American public safety personnel (PSP; e.g., police, firefighters, paramedics) training programmes often focus on the importance of controlling emotional reactions (i.e.
Megan McElheran, Andrea M. Stelnicki
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Testifying after an Investigation: Shaping the Mental Health of Public Safety Personnel. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 In this editorial, we draw on two Canadian cases to interrogate how mass causality events and investigations consume many responders before (e.g., public safety communicators, detachment service assistants), during (e.g., police, fire, paramedics), and after the incident (e.g., coroners, correctional workers, media coverage).
Ricciardelli R +4 more
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Peer Support for Public Safety Personnel in Canada: Towards a Typology. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Public safety personnel (PSP) are frequently exposed to potentially psychologically traumatic events (PPTEs) which can impact mental health. To help mitigate the negative effects of PPTEs, PSP commonly rely on peer support. Peer support generally refers to a wide variety of mental health resources that offer social or emotional assistance to a peer ...
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OPERATING ROOM AND PATIENT SAFETY: AN OVERVIEW [PDF]
Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 2021 Safety in the operating room (OR) has always been a major public health concern. It refers tothe safety of both the patient and the working personnel. Improving patient safety is anincreasing priority for surgeons and hospitals as sentinel events can be ...
ISMAIL ELSAID M. M. ELDEEB +3 more
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Text4PTSI: A Promising Supportive Text Messaging Program to Mitigate Psychological Symptoms in Public Safety Personnel. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2023 Obuobi-Donkor G +13 more
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Mental Health Secretariat: Collaboration for public safety personnel (PSP) mental health in Ontario
Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2023 Mental health issues, and more specifically suicide, within the policing community have been a growing concern in recent years. In 2018 alone, there were nine suicides among active and retired police officers in the province of Ontario.
Beth Milliard, Robert Chrismas
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Public Safety Personnel’s interpretations of potentially traumatic events [PDF]
Occupational Medicine, 2020 Abstract Background Many public safety personnel (PSP) experience trauma directly or indirectly in their occupational role, yet there remain barriers to accessing care or seeking help. Aims To understand how PSP interpret different ...
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