TY - JOUR AU - Lawn, Sharon AU - Roberts, Louise AU - Willis, Eileen AU - Couzner, Leah AU - Mohammadi, Leila AU - Goble, Elizabeth PY - 2020 DA - 2020/07/03 TI - The effects of emergency medical service work on the psychological, physical, and social well-being of ambulance personnel: a systematic review of qualitative research JO - BMC Psychiatry SP - 348 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - High rates of mental distress, mental illness, and the associated physical effects of psychological injury experienced by ambulance personnel has been widely reported in quantitative research. However, there is limited understanding of how the nature of ambulance work contributes to this problem, the significant large toll that emergency medical response takes on the individual, and particularly about late and cumulative development of work-related distress among this first responder workforce. SN - 1471-244X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-020-02752-4 DO - 10.1186/s12888-020-02752-4 ID - Lawn2020 ER -