Interventions for the prevention and management of occupational stress injury in first responders: a rapid overview of reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

First responders are a high-risk population for occupational stress injuries as they often encounter prolonged stress within their line of work. The aim of this rapid overview of reviews is to summarize existing evidence on interventions for the prevention and management of occupational stress injury (OSI) in first responders.

Methods

MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library were searched for systematic reviews examining the impact of prevention, rehabilitation, and resilience-building strategies targeting frontline community safety personnel in February 2019. Pairs of reviewers screened titles and abstracts followed by full-text articles and conducted data abstraction and quality appraisal using the AMSTAR II tool. To ensure a rapid

SUBMITTER: Antony J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7262749 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature