Coping, routine activities, and recovery from acute distress among emergency medical personnel after a mass shooting incident |
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Authors: | Sharon Rae Jenkins |
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Institution: | (1) University of North Texas, USA |
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Abstract: | Emergency medical workers’ distress and recovery patterns after a mass shooting were related to their coping behaviors and
routine daily activities. This longitudinal repeated measures study assessed 31 emergency medical workers’ psychological and
psychosomatic symptoms self-rated for the weeks before, those just after, and one full month after the shooting. Coping behaviors
and time in creative activities were related to increased acute distress; recovery was related to more time in constructive
activities. Thinking about the incident was related to higher acute distress but better recovery on several SCL9OR scales.
Exercise predicted recovery on Obsessive-Compulsive and Hostility scales. Studies evaluating emergency workers’ reactions
to and recovery from critical incidents should use repeated measures designs, should assess short-term recovery, and should
distinguish among symptoms. |
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Keywords: | firefighters paramedics distress coping disaster |
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