Fire fighters : a study of stress and coping.

By:

Hytten, Karsten

Contributor(s):

Hasle, Anders [jt. auth.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1989Description: 6 pSubject: Fifty eight non-professional fire fighters, 91% of all firefighers from different industries who participated in a hotel fire rescue operation, were investigated by means of a structured self-report questionnaire about their stress experience during and after the rescue action. Together with 57 professional fire fighters, they participated in rescuing hotel guests confined for as long as three hours in a 12 storeyed hotel building on fire. Fourteen persons (11%) died, 114 guests survived. High level of competence and opportunity for debriefing as well as disaster characteristics are discussed as factors explaining the favourable coping with extreme stress.

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Reprinted from Acta Psychiatrica, Scandinavia Supplement; 1989; Vol. 80 No. 355; pp50-55

Fifty eight non-professional fire fighters, 91% of all firefighers from different industries who participated in a hotel fire rescue operation, were investigated by means of a structured self-report questionnaire about their stress experience during and after the rescue action. Together with 57 professional fire fighters, they participated in rescuing hotel guests confined for as long as three hours in a 12 storeyed hotel building on fire. Fourteen persons (11%) died, 114 guests survived. High level of competence and opportunity for debriefing as well as disaster characteristics are discussed as factors explaining the favourable coping with extreme stress.

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