Disaster Medicine Service 118, ASL CN1, Levaldigi, Cuneo, Italy.
CRIMEDIM, Center for Research and Training in Disaster Medicine, Humanitarian Aid, and Global Health, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2023 Jul 31;17:e440. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2023.119.
Team dynamics and nontechnical skills in general are crucial for emergency medical teams (EMT). No study has ever examined these important issues during a real mission in the field. This study aimed to better investigate team dynamics and nontechnical skills for EMTs; it tried to understand if a real mission, when the people are obliged to work together for the first time, without a prior specific training focused on teamwork, is enough or not to work as an effective team in the field.
The study is designed as a pre-test/post-test survey study, and it collected data from 51 people deployed to Mozambique in 2019. Three indexes (the self-efficacy (SE), the teamwork (TW), and the overall team's performance (TW)) were calculated as the average value of the rating given by all the participants. Open text feedback was also collected.
A positive trend was observed comparing the "post" data to the "pre" data, but results did not show a statistical significance, with the only exception of stratified analyses showing a -value less than 0.05 for SE and TW for some categories.
According to the study findings, humanitarian workers feel good but not at their best; training programs focused on team dynamics can be really useful to improve self-confidence of people leaving for a mission.
团队动态和一般非技术技能对于紧急医疗团队（EMT）至关重要。尚无研究在现场的实际任务中检查过这些重要问题。本研究旨在更好地调查 EMT 的团队动态和非技术技能；它试图了解当人们第一次被迫一起工作而没有事先进行专门的团队合作培训时，一次真实的任务是否足以在现场作为一个有效的团队发挥作用。
该研究设计为预测试/后测试调查研究，共收集了 2019 年部署到莫桑比克的 51 人的数据。三个指标（自我效能感（SE）、团队合作（TW）和团队整体绩效（TW））通过所有参与者的评分平均值计算得出。还收集了开放式文本反馈。
与“前”数据相比，“后”数据观察到积极的趋势，但结果没有显示出统计学意义，只有一些类别的 SE 和 TW 的分层分析显示值小于 0.05。
根据研究结果，人道主义工作者感觉良好但不是最佳状态；专注于团队动态的培训计划对于提高即将执行任务的人员的自信心非常有用。
