Trauma and work factors as predictors of firefighters’ psychiatric distress

Studies into the mental health of firefighters have primarily focussed on individual factors (e.g. biological and psychological factors). Little is known about how exposure to traumatic events and psychosocial and organizational work factors influence firefighters' mental health despite the evidence that these are important for employee health.To study job demands, job control, social support and operational trauma as predictors of firefighters'...