How Mistreatment Affects Nurses’ Intentions to Leave the Profession During a Pandemic: A Time-Lagged Study

Occupational Health Science, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 25, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Exploring the Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Physical Performance: An EEG Study in the Context of High-Intensity Endurance

Sports Medicine - Open, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 11(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 23, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Contactless Fatigue Level Diagnosis System Through Multimodal Sensor Data

Bioengineering, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 12(2), С. 116 - 116

Опубликована: Янв. 26, 2025

Fatigue management is critical for high-risk professions such as pilots, firefighters, and healthcare workers, where physical mental exhaustion can lead to catastrophic accidents loss of life. Traditional fatigue assessment methods, including surveys physiological measurements, are limited in real-time monitoring user convenience. To address these issues, this study introduces a novel contactless level diagnosis system leveraging multimodal sensor data, video, thermal imaging, audio. The integrates non-contact biometric data collection with an AI-driven classification model capable diagnosing levels on 1 5 scale average accuracy 89%. Key features include feedback, adaptive retraining personalized improvement, compatibility high-stress environments. Experimental results demonstrate that feedback enhances by 11 percentage points. system’s hardware validated robustness under diverse operational conditions, temperature electromagnetic compliance. This innovation provides practical solution improving safety performance sectors enabling precise, non-invasive, efficient monitoring.

Язык: Английский

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Identifying smart technology and artificial intelligence solutions for human factors and ergonomic challenges in all-hazard response: A survey study

Applied Ergonomics, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 126, С. 104488 - 104488

Опубликована: Март 12, 2025

Язык: Английский

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The relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness and firefighter occupational performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis examining absolute versus relative VO _2max

Ergonomics, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 18

Опубликована: Март 17, 2025

Unequivocally greater cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is beneficial for performing firefighting occupational tasks (OTs); however, the contribution of absolute vs. relative VO2max with OT performance warrants further study. This systematic review and meta-analysis compared relationship between OTs. Studies included career, volunteer, firefighter recruits examined association CRF measures performance. Thirty-two studies were identified 19 incorporating an circuit simulated OTs such as stair climbing, carrying equipment, victim rescue, forcible entry, search tasks. The pooled correlations r̅ =–0.64 (95%CI: [–0.69,–0.58]) = −0.75 [−0.88, −0.62]), respectively. findings support importance CRF, particularly VO2max, effective Absolute likely has a stronger firefighters' functional work rate during operations, reflecting demands

Язык: Английский

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The impact of shift work on paramedics and their practice: Protocol for a simulated paramedic shift work study

PLoS ONE, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 20(3), С. e0319569 - e0319569

Опубликована: Март 26, 2025

Paramedics make up an integral part of modern healthcare systems, however, there remains a paucity research on the occupational demands their role. The majority paramedics in Australia work rotating shift schedule. Despite documented impact sleep loss, and resultant performance physiological impairments, few studies have examined implications paramedic populations. This study explores work, circadian rhythm disruption, decision making, underlying physiology. aims to recruit 22 Australian with entry practice scope. In pairs, participants complete two 12-hour day shift, night simulated rotation. All opportunities during rotation occur Monash Sleep Circadian Medicine Laboratory are monitored polysomnography. Simulated shifts take place Paramedic Simulation Centre, where engage high-fidelity immersive scenarios throughout shift. recorded for asynchronous evaluation by subject matter experts. addition scenarios, cognitive decision-making batteries each Biological markers also collected assess changes paramedics’ stress responses (i.e., alpha-amylase, cortisol, heart rate variability, cytokines), as well phase 6-sulfatoxymelatonin). novel environment design contributes significantly body literature through advancing our understanding impacts paramedics. provides valuable insights into nature generates future directions that will allow further examination profession.

Язык: Английский

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Next Generation Computing and Communication Hub for First Responders in Smart Cities

Sensors, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 24(7), С. 2366 - 2366

Опубликована: Апрель 8, 2024

This paper contributes to the development of a Next Generation First Responder (NGFR) communication platform with key goal embedding it into smart city technology infrastructure. The framework this approach is concept known as SmartHub, developed by US Department Homeland Security. proposed methodology complies standard categories and indicators performance. offers two practice-centered extensions NGFR hub, which are also main results: first, cognitive workload monitoring first responders basis for their performance assessment, monitoring, improvement; second, highly sensitive problem human society, emergency assistance tools individuals disabilities. Both explore various technological-societal dimensions cities, including interoperability, standardization, accessibility assistive technologies people Regarding core result novel AI formalism, an ensemble machine learning processes aggregated using reasoning. enables predictive situation assessment self-aware computing, digital twin concept. We experimentally demonstrate specific component NGFR, near-real-time workload. our second result, disabilities that originated promote disability inclusion, we provide specification focusing on interactions based formalism unified hub platform. discusses roadmap notion Emergency Management Cycle (EMC), commonly accepted doctrine managing disasters through steps mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery. It positions benchmark service.

Язык: Английский

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‘I’ve got no PPE to protect my mind’: understanding the needs and experiences of first responders exposed to trauma in the workplace

European journal of psychotraumatology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 15(1)

Опубликована: Сен. 6, 2024

: First responders (FRs) are at high risk of being exposed to traumatic events in their occupational roles. Responding critical incidents often involves exposure life-threatening circumstances, dealing with fatalities and encountering highly stressful situations that may trigger responses. These experiences can lead poor physical mental health (MH) outcomes including post-traumatic stress disorder, co-morbid conditions such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, insomnia, suicidality. Little research has explored the perspectives FRs trauma(s) how best meet needs.

Язык: Английский

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“I've got no PPE to protect my mind”: Understanding the needs and experiences of first responders exposed to trauma in the workplace

Опубликована: Май 29, 2024

Background: First responders (FRs) are at high risk of being exposed to traumatic events in their occupational roles. Responding critical incidents often involves exposure life-threatening circumstances, dealing with fatalities as well encountering highly stressful situations that may trigger responses. These experiences can lead poor physical and mental health outcomes including post-traumatic stress disorder, co-morbid conditions such depression, anxiety, substance abuse, insomnia, suicidality. Little research has explored the perspectives FRs trauma(s) how best meet needs.Objective: This study aimed explore FRs’ trauma its impact on wellbeing. The wider objective was investigate be supported access appropriate relevant help, addressing barriers like stigma.Method: A qualitative design using in-depth semi-structured interviews (n = 54) adopted. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed analysed an inductive thematic approach.Results: Themes developed were: (1) pervasive, cumulative salient (micro-traumas, nightmares, flashbacks reliving experiences), (2) demands job exacerbating adverse effects (self others), (3) Insufficient support unhelpful ways coping following (lack psychological safety), (4) Stigma fear judgement help-seeking, (5) Need for specific, accessible credible trauma-focused interventions workplace support.Conclusions: implications these findings discussed individual, service provider organisational level, emphasising importance implementing a strengths-based, non-pathologising de-stigmatising approach experienced by FRs. Emphasis is placed overcoming accessing improving evidence-based, support.

Язык: Английский

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Physical and psychological status of emergency assistance personnel at major public health events: a qualitative descriptive study

BMC Public Health, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 24(1)

Опубликована: Июль 18, 2024

Abstract Background Many personnel respond to natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis frequent public health events Ebola COVID-19. However, research on emergency assistance remains limited. This study aims describe the perceived well-being among responders deployed in isolated or international missions while providing practical references intervene developing similar missions. Methods For this qualitative phenomenological study, purposive sampling was used following principle of maximum differentiation select an mission for over a year. Data collection continued until data saturation. Phenomenologically semi-structured interviews helped explore physical psychological status participants with Colaizzi’s method. Results Eleven were interviewed after mission, four major themes being identified: ‘perceived somatic change,’ emotional ‘behavioral ‘coping change.’ Conclusions The mental affected by multiple factors from external internal environments. current explored feelings emotions during mission. provided reference management under Registrations Not registered.

Язык: Английский

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