Introduction: This study examined the relationship between coping style and long term posttraumatic stress symptoms in an Australian sample of volunteer firefighters 84 months following a bushfire disaster. Methods: A total of 277 firefighters completed four questionnaires to assess patterns of psychiatric morbidity. A two-way repeated measures of analysis of variance was conducted to investiga...

The purpose of this study was to establish the relation between resiliency and the level of positive changes, comprising posttraumatic growth in a group of firefighters experiencing job-related traumatic events and the mediating role of stress appraisal in this relation. The study was performed on a group of 100 firefighters from firefighting and rescue brigades, out of which 75 admitted to exp...

OBJECTIVE This article reports new anthropometric information of U.S. firefighters for fire apparatus design applications (Study 1) and presents a data method to assist in firefighter anthropometric data usage for research-to-practice propositions (Study 2). BACKGROUND Up-to-date anthropometric information of the U.S. firefighter population is needed for updating ergonomic and safety specific...

PURPOSE To investigate the prevalence of low back pain among Finnish firefighters and to examine whether sleep disturbances predict membership of low back pain trajectories. METHODS In this prospective study, 360 actively working firefighters responded to a questionnaire in 1996, 1999 and 2009. The outcome variables were radiating and local low back pain during the preceding year. Using logis...

A REAL TIME INDOOR NAVIGATION AND MONITORING SYSTEM FOR FIREFIGHTERS AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED MAY 2011 SIDDHESH RAJAN GANDHI, B.E., UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI M.S. E.C.E, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor Aura Ganz There has been a widespread growth of technology in almost every facet of day to day life. But there are still important application areas in which technology advance...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes almost half of all on-duty deaths in US firefighters and is an important and costly cause of morbidity. In addition, cancer is a growing health concern in this population. Obesity and obesity-associated, cardiometabolic risk clustering are major, modifiable risk factors for fire service CVD and cancer risk. The Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) is proven effective...

OBJECTIVES A growing body of literature has documented that job stress is associated with the development of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs). However, the association of WMSDs with job stress has not yet been fully studied in Korean male firefighters. The purpose of this study was to determine the status of WMSDs in almost all Korean male firefighters and to clarify the effect of...

Relevance . The job of Federal Fire-Fighting Service (FFS) officers the State EMERCOM Russia is among global top 10 occupations with evident risk health functional reserves depletion, prevalence early occupational diseases, injuries and even death. Traditionally, investigators focus on circulatory diseases how they affect firefighters’ health. objective to provide research-based evidence showin...

wife, Denise and two sons, Harry, age 12, and Gerard, age 10. Brian Fahey leaves us with his wife, Mary and three sons: Brendan, who is 8 years old, and 3-year-old twins, Patrick and James. John Downing is survived by his wife Anne, his daughter Joanne, age 7, and his son Michael, who is 3. My thoughts and prayers are with these families. I am humbled by their devotion to public service. Their ...