Cognitive behavior intervention for critical incident stress management in fire fighters in Korea

Stress Reactivity in Fire Fighters: An Exercise Intervention

This experiment was designed to investigate the efficacy of 16 weeks of exercise training as an intervention to reduce the psychophysiological response of fire fighters to psychological stress. Fifty-three members of the Austin Fire Department (AFD) were recruited as participants and were randomly assigned to either exercise on a rowing ergometer or to continue their present modes of exercise t...

Emotional First Aid - Critical Incident Stress Management.

Job stress and depressive symptoms among Japanese fire fighters.

BACKGROUND Associations between job stresses, as assessed by theoretical job stress model and depressive symptoms among fire fighters have not been fully investigated. The purpose of this study is to clarify the factors of job stress that influence the depressive symptoms in Japanese fire fighters. METHODS The subjects involved 1,672 fire fighters from a local government. The questionnaire co...

a framework for identifying and prioritizing factors affecting customers’ online shopping behavior in iran

the purpose of this study is identifying effective factors which make customers shop online in iran and investigating the importance of discovered factors in online customers’ decision. in the identifying phase, to discover the factors affecting online shopping behavior of customers in iran, the derived reference model summarizing antecedents of online shopping proposed by change et al. was us...

Interventions following a critical incident: developing a critical incident stress management team.

This article describes the development and implementation of a stress management model for assisting hospital staff after critical incidents using an adaptation of Mitchell's model (J. Mitchell, 1983). A survey was conducted following the first major incident using M. Horowitz, N. Wilner, and W. Alvarez's (1979) Impact of Event Scale 10 days after and again 6 weeks following the incident to mea...