Occupational Firefighting: A Detriment to Good Health. 2023

Lawrence Brumfield, and Sarah Miner, and Donna Tydings, and Mary Carey
From the School of Nursing, St John Fisher College, Rochester, New York (Mr Brumfield and Drs Miner and Tydings); and School of Nursing at University of Rochester, Rochester, New York (Dr Carey).

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of an online educational module in increasing awareness of depression, substance use disorder, and sleep deprivation among firefighters in Monroe County, New York. Firefighters were recruited via work e-mail and the snowball technique. A quantitative preintervention and postintervention study was used. Participants completed four surveys before and after completing educational online modules. There was a 5.11% increase in overall knowledge about sleep deprivation, depression, and substance (alcohol) use and a small decrease in the group mean for the depression and sleep deprivation scores after completion of the educational modules. Increasing content knowledge had a positive effect to participants' self-awareness during the project. Incorporating educational modules into annual firefighting training could provide opportunities to improve sleep deprivation, depression, and substance use.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D004522 Educational Status Educational attainment or level of education of an individual. Education Level,Educational Achievement,Educational Attainment,Educational Level,Level of Education,Maternal Education Level,Maternal Educational Attainment,Maternal Educational Level,Paternal Education Level,Paternal Educational Attainment,Paternal Educational Level,Achievement, Educational,Educational Status, Maternal,Educational Status, Paternal,Maternal Educational Status,Paternal Educational Status,Status, Educational,Attainment, Educational,Attainment, Maternal Educational,Attainment, Paternal Educational,Education Level, Maternal,Education Level, Paternal,Education Levels,Educational Achievements,Educational Attainment, Maternal,Educational Attainment, Paternal,Educational Attainments,Educational Level, Maternal,Educational Level, Paternal,Educational Levels,Level, Education,Level, Educational,Level, Maternal Education,Level, Maternal Educational,Level, Paternal Education,Level, Paternal Educational,Levels, Maternal Educational,Maternal Education Levels,Maternal Educational Attainments,Maternal Educational Levels,Paternal Education Levels,Paternal Educational Attainments,Paternal Educational Levels,Status, Maternal Educational,Status, Paternal Educational
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000428 Alcohol Drinking Behaviors associated with the ingesting of ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, including social drinking. Alcohol Consumption,Alcohol Intake,Drinking, Alcohol,Alcohol Drinking Habits,Alcohol Drinking Habit,Alcohol Intakes,Consumption, Alcohol,Drinking Habit, Alcohol,Habit, Alcohol Drinking,Habits, Alcohol Drinking,Intake, Alcohol
D012892 Sleep Deprivation The state of being deprived of sleep under experimental conditions, due to life events, or from a wide variety of pathophysiologic causes such as medication effect, chronic illness, psychiatric illness, or sleep disorder. Inadequate Sleep,Insufficient Sleep,Insufficient Sleep Syndrome,REM Sleep Deprivation,Sleep Debt,Sleep Fragmentation,Sleep Insufficiency,Deprivation, REM Sleep,Deprivation, Sleep,Fragmentation, Sleep,Insufficiencies, Sleep,Insufficiency, Sleep,Insufficient Sleep Syndromes,Sleep Deprivation, REM,Sleep Insufficiencies,Sleep, Inadequate,Sleep, Insufficient,Syndrome, Insufficient Sleep
D061388 Firefighters Professional or volunteer members of a fire department who are trained to suppress fire and respond to related emergency. Fire Fighters,Fire and Rescue Personnel,Fire Fighter,Firefighter
D020375 Education, Distance Education via communication media (correspondence, radio, television, computer networks) with little or no in-person face-to-face contact between students and teachers. (ERIC Thesaurus, 1997) Correspondence Courses,Distance Education,Distance Learning,Online Education,Online Learning,Correspondence Course,Course, Correspondence,Education, Online,Learning, Distance,Learning, Online,Online Educations

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