From the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (RMCOEH), University of Utah and Weber State University, Salt Lake City, Utah (K.C.C., J.A.A.); Department of Family and Preventative Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (K.C.C., J.A.A.); Center for Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trends, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (A.B.F., A.M.G., A.L.D., J.A.T.); School of Business and Economics, Moravian University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (S.L.B.); LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (C.J.R.); and Department of Psychological Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas (J.L.).
J Occup Environ Med. 2023 Apr 1;65(4):e195-e203. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002808. Epub 2023 Feb 11.
The US fire service experienced increased demands due to COVID-19. This qualitative study explored the pandemic's impact on work-life balance and safety.
Five interviews and 10 focus groups were conducted with 15 fire departments in the COVID-19 RAPID Mental Health Assessment. Coding and multilevel content analysis were conducted in NVivo.
Four department support themes were identified: emotional/social (33.1%), policy (28.4%), instrumental (22.9%), and informational (15.5%). Four work-life balance themes were identified: life (51.2%), children (18.1%), physiological (16.5%), and work (14.2%). We observed more departmental resources to help mitigate job demands within the work environment compared with those for work-life demands.
Job resources are needed to mitigate demands and improve safety culture and mental well-being of the fire service under normal conditions, and for the next pandemic, natural disaster, or long-term emergency.
美国消防部门因 COVID-19 而面临更高的需求。本定性研究探讨了大流行对工作生活平衡和安全的影响。
在 COVID-19 RAPID 心理健康评估中,对 15 个消防部门进行了 5 次访谈和 10 次焦点小组。在 NVivo 中进行编码和多层次内容分析。
确定了四个部门支持主题:情感/社会(33.1%)、政策(28.4%)、工具(22.9%)和信息(15.5%)。确定了四个工作生活平衡主题:生活(51.2%)、儿童(18.1%)、生理(16.5%)和工作(14.2%)。我们观察到更多的部门资源来帮助减轻工作环境中的工作需求,而不是工作生活需求。
在正常情况下,以及下一次大流行、自然灾害或长期紧急情况,需要工作资源来减轻需求,改善消防安全文化和消防部门的心理健康。