Pandemic COVID-19 from the Point of View of Members of Emergency Medical Services in the Czech and Slovak Republic

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43506-5_32" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43506-5_32</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43506-5_32" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-43506-5_32</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Pandemic COVID-19 from the Point of View of Members of Emergency Medical Services in the Czech and Slovak Republic

Original language description

The topic of the chapter is the influence of the first and second wave of the pandemic in connection with COVID-19 disease on the psychosomatic state of Emergency Rescue Services employees in the Czech and Slovak Republic. Their profession is closely linked to tense moments of emergencies and crisis situations. Some situations are everyday experience for these employees (e.g. acute onset of symptoms of particular diseases, accidents, traffic accidents, etc.), but among other things, they also perform their profession in specific conditions that are new and unexplored for the whole of society (e.g. the current case of the pandemic in connection with COVID-19) and, as persons who worked in the so-called “first line” during the first and second wave of the pandemic, this has placed increased demands on them in all respects. With regard to the job classification, we were interested in the impact of the pandemic on the psychosomatic state of these employees. For the purposes of the research, a quantitative method of data collection was chosen, using a non-standardized anonymous questionnaire that was distributed electronically. The respondents of the questionnaire were not limited by gender, length of experience or education. The criterion for selection of respondents was their employment in the Czech and Slovak Emergency Rescue services and their deployment during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. Research questions were set regarding specific factors affecting the psychosomatic state of these individuals and their perception of the risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of the work workload brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to fatigue, exhaustion, overwork, despair, mood slumps, burnout, health concerns, and infecting family and loved ones, was investigated. Analysis of the results was differentiated how perceptions of individual risks differed in the first and second waves of the pandemic. Factors entering and subsequently determining the process of pre-hospital care delivery were also mapped. The obtained data was further processed graphically and compared with the literature. The chapter also includes information on the possibilities of professional assistance to members of the outreach groups and recommended procedures to manage individual negative phenomena occurring in the provision of pre-hospital care.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30221 - Critical care medicine and Emergency medicine

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Book/collection name

Changes and Innovations in Social Systems

ISBN

978-3-031-43505-8

Number of pages of the result

17

Pages from-to

581-597

Number of pages of the book

657

Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS chapter

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