Enhancing mental health treatment for the firefighter population: Understanding fire culture, treatment barriers, practice implications, and research directions.

CC Johnson, L Vega, AL Kohalmi, JC Roth… - Professional …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Firefighters are repeatedly exposed to potentially traumatic events and occupational
stressors (ie physical strain, shift work that results in disrupted sleep schedules), thus they …

Anxiety sensitivity and suicidal ideation/suicide risk: A meta-analysis.

IH Stanley, JW Boffa, ML Rogers, MA Hom… - Journal of consulting …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Suicide is a global public health concern. To inform the prevention and treatment
of suicidality, it is crucial to identify transdiagnostic vulnerability factors for suicide and …

Fluid vulnerability theory as a framework for understanding the association between posttraumatic stress disorder and suicide: A narrative review

KF Rugo‐Cook, PK Kerig, SE Crowell… - Journal of Traumatic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Suicide is a persistent issue in the United States and across the globe. A large body of
published research shows that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) increases the risk of …

Pandemic-related mental health risk among front line personnel

HM Wright, BJ Griffin, K Shoji, TM Love… - Journal of Psychiatric …, 2021 - Elsevier
The mental health of frontline workers is critical to a community's ability to manage crises
and disasters. This study assessed risks for mental health problems (traumatic stress …

Posttraumatic stress, alcohol use severity, and alcohol use motives among firefighters: The role of anxiety sensitivity

A Lebeaut, JK Tran, AA Vujanovic - Addictive Behaviors, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduction Firefighters are vulnerable to developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
and alcohol use disorder (AUD). Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is a cognitive-affective mechanism …

Hopelessness and perceived stress: The mediating role of cognitive flexibility and intolerance of uncertainty

AS Demirtas, B Yildiz - Dusunen Adam Journal of …, 2019 - dusunenadamdergisi.org
Objective: This study aims to explore the relationships among hopelessness, cognitive
flexibility, intolerance of uncertainty, and perceived stress in a non-clinical sample by …

Mental health of UK firefighters

TAM Wolffe, A Robinson, A Clinton, L Turrell… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Exposure to trauma, high-stress situations, and disrupted sleep are well known risk factors
affecting firefighters' mental health. Little is known about the association between firefighters' …

Occupational stress and suicidality among firefighters: Examining the buffering role of distress tolerance

IH Stanley, JW Boffa, LJ Smith, JK Tran, NB Schmidt… - Psychiatry …, 2018 - Elsevier
Past research indicates that firefighters are at increased risk for suicide. Firefighter-specific
occupational stress may contribute to elevated suicidality. Among a large sample of …

Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and mindfulness facets in relation to suicide risk among firefighters

IH Stanley, JW Boffa, JK Tran… - Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms are associated with increased
suicide risk among firefighters. Few studies have examined modifiable factors, such as …

PTSD symptoms and suicide risk among firefighters: The moderating role of sleep disturbance.

NA Healy, AA Vujanovic - Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms are prominent among firefighters and
related to suicidal ideation and behavior, a major public health concern among first …