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Critical Incident Stress And The Effectiveness Of Debriefing For Hospital Personnel, Brenda S. Verbick
Critical Incident Stress And The Effectiveness Of Debriefing For Hospital Personnel, Brenda S. Verbick
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A model of intervention called Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) has been developed for the hospital setting to mitigate the impact of a critical incident and to assist workers in recovering as quickly as possible from the stress associated with the event.
This quantitative cross-sectional survey expands the knowledge of the impact of critical incidents on hospital workers and the effectiveness of the CISD model of intervention in reducing stress reactions. Through a self-administered survey, participants were asked to complete a subjective stress measurement tool, the revised Impact of Event (IES-R), as well as a ‘helpfulness’ questionnaire developed to obtain …