دورية أكاديمية
Prevalence of pain, analgesic self-medication and mental health in German pre-hospital emergency medical service personnel: a nationwide survey pilot-study
| العنوان: | Prevalence of pain, analgesic self-medication and mental health in German pre-hospital emergency medical service personnel: a nationwide survey pilot-study |
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| المؤلفون: | Möckel, Luis, Gerhard, Angela, Mohr, Mara, Armbrust, Christoph Immanuel, Möckel, Christina |
| المصدر: | http://lobid.org/resources/99370670838506441Test#!, 94(8):1975-1982. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | Publisso (ZB MED-Publikationsportal Lebenswissenschaften) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Surveys and Questionnaires [MeSH], Female [MeSH], Depression/epidemiology [MeSH], Analgesics intake, Anxiety/epidemiology [MeSH], Adult [MeSH], Humans [MeSH], Stress, Psychological/epidemiology [MeSH], Mental Health [MeSH], Analgesics/therapeutic use [MeSH], Self Medication/statistics, Healthcare worker, Germany/epidemiology [MeSH], Pain/epidemiology [MeSH], Original Article, Pain/drug therapy [MeSH], Male [MeSH], Pilot Projects [MeSH], Emergency Medical Technicians/psychology [MeSH], Prevalence [MeSH], Emergency Medical Services [MeSH], Lower back issues, Musculoskeletal disease |
| الوصف: | Purpose!#!The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of pain, the extent of analgesics intake and the mental health status of German pre-hospital emergency medical service (EMS) personnel.!##!Methods!#!We conducted a nationwide online survey, which consisted of sociodemographic and job-related items, questions on pain and analgesics intake and the short-version of the validated Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale (DASS-21).!##!Results!#!A total of 774 EMS personnel with a mean age of 33.03 (standard error [SE] 0.37) years were included into the final analysis of which 23.77% were female. Pain was reported by 58.64% (454 of 774) of the study participants with 10.72% (95% confidence interval [CI] 8.54%; 13.29%) suffering from chronic, 1.68% (95% CI 0.89%; 2.87%) from acute and 46.25% (95% CI 41.49%; 51.30%) from recurrent pain, respectively. Most frequent location of pain was lumbar spine. Analgesics were used by 52.76% (239 of 454) of pre-hospital EMS personnel with pain (acute 76.92% / chronic 69.88% / recurrent 47.90%). Moreover, participants with chronic and recurrent pain indicated significantly higher depression (p ≤ 0.001), anxiety (p ≤ 0.001), and stress (p ≤ 0.001) levels compared to those without pain, respectively.!##!Conclusion!#!This study indicates a high prevalence of pain and analgesics usage in participating German pre-hospital EMS personnel and a poorer mental health in those with chronic and recurrent pain. Therefore, disease prevention and health promotion measures are needed to preserve health of pre-hospital EMS personnel. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| العلاقة: | https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl:6447126Test; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-021-01730-xTest; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8180540Test/ |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00420-021-01730-x |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-021-01730-xTest https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl:6447126Test https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8180540Test/ |
| حقوق: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.901D618 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00420-021-01730-x |
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