Qualitative Research of Violent Incidents Toward Young Paramedics in the Czech Republic

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11120/20:43920005

Result on the web

<a href="https://westjem.com/original-research/qualitative-research-of-violent-incidents-toward-young-paramedics-in-the-czech-republic.html" target="_blank" >https://westjem.com/original-research/qualitative-research-of-violent-incidents-toward-young-paramedics-in-the-czech-republic.html</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2019.10.43919" target="_blank" >10.5811/westjem.2019.10.43919</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Qualitative Research of Violent Incidents Toward Young Paramedics in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Introduction: Prehospital and emergency medical services (EMS) providers are usually the first to respond to an individual&apos;s urgent health needs, sometimes in emotionally charged circumstances. Because violence toward EMS providers in the Czech Republic is often overlooked and under-reported, we do not have a complete understanding of the extent of such violence, nor do we have recommendations from EMS professional organizations on how to resolve this problem in prehospital emergency medicine. Methods: We conducted this study to explore the process of violence against EMS providers, using the Strauss/Corbin systematic approach of grounded theory to create a paradigm model. The participants in this research included personnel who had at least two years experience in the EMS systems of the city of Prague and the Central Bohemian Region, and who had been victims of violence. Our sample included 10 registered paramedics and 10 emergency medical technicians ages 23-33 (mean +- standard deviation: 27.7). The impact of communication during EMS delivery, in the context of violence from patients or their relatives, emerged as the core category and the main focus of our study. The five main groups of the paradigm model of violence against EMS personnel included causal, contextual and intervening conditions, strategies, and consequences. Results: Of the 20 study participants, 18 reported experiencing an attack during the night shift. Ten participants experienced violence on the street, and 10 inside an ambulance. The perpetrators in all 18 cases were men. The behavior of EMS personnel plays a crucial role in how violent confrontations play out: nonprofessional behavior with drunken or addict patients increases the possibility of violence in 70% of cases. Conclusion: We found that paramedics and EMTs were exposed to verbal abuse and physical violence. However, in 10 of the violent encounters reported by our 20 participants, the attack was perpetrated by otherwise-ordinary people (ie, individuals with strong family support and good jobs) who found themselves in a very stressful situation. Thanks to grounded theory we learned that for all 20 participants there was a potential opportunity to prevent the conflict.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30221 - Critical care medicine and Emergency medicine

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health

ISSN

1936-900X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

463-468

UT code for WoS article

000517818500040

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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