Interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder and psychological distress in emergency ambulance personnel: a review of the literature Export

@article{citeulike:3700825, abstract = {A literature review was carried out to establish the extent of the literature on interventions for psychological distress and post-traumatic stress disorder in emergency ambulance personnel. A total of 292 articles were identified. Of these, 10 were relevant to this review. The primary intervention used with this population was critical incident stress debriefing, although there was some debate in the literature about the effectiveness of this intervention and the quality of the research conducted. More high quality research is needed on critical incident stress debriefing before being confident of its effectiveness.}, author = {Smith, A. and Roberts, K.}, citeulike-article-id = {3700825}, journal = {Emerg. Med. J.}, keywords = {cism, critical, debriefing, ems, incident, prehospital, ptsd, stress}, pages = {75--78}, posted-at = {2008-11-26 01:46:53}, priority = {2}, title = {Interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder and psychological distress in emergency ambulance personnel: a review of the literature}, volume = {20}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3700825 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3700825 N2 - A literature review was carried out to establish the extent of the literature on interventions for psychological distress and post-traumatic stress disorder in emergency ambulance personnel. A total of 292 articles were identified. Of these, 10 were relevant to this review. The primary intervention used with this population was critical incident stress debriefing, although there was some debate in the literature about the effectiveness of this intervention and the quality of the research conducted. More high quality research is needed on critical incident stress debriefing before being confident of its effectiveness. JF - Emerg. Med. J. EP - 78 TI - Interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder and psychological distress in emergency ambulance personnel: a review of the literature VL - 20 SP - 75 KW - cism KW - critical KW - debriefing KW - ems KW - incident KW - prehospital KW - ptsd KW - stress AU - Smith, A AU - Roberts, K PY - 2003/// ER -