Repackaged CISM?

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Have the CISM drones taken a lesson from Trudeau and

repackaged their scam in order to stay in business? Sure sounds

like it.

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Prehospital Emergency Care

Publisher: & Francis Health Sciences, part of the &

Francis Group

Issue: Volume 10, Number 1 / January-March 2006

Pages: 89 - 95

URL: Linking Options

DOI: 10.1080/10903120500365955

EMTs' Attitudes' toward Death before and after a Death Education

Program

L. -Cumberland A1, A2 and H. Feldman A1

A1 Department of Public and Community Health, University of land

College Park, College Park, land

A2 Department of Emergency Health Services, University of land

Baltimore County, Baltimore, land

Abstract:

Objective. To test the hypothesis that emergency medical

technicians' (EMTs') attitudes toward death will change after

exposure to a death education program.

Methods. A convenience sample of 83 rural EMTs participated in this

pretest–posttest study after exposure to an educational program

related to death. Intact groups of EMTs were randomly assigned to

one of three conditions. The short-intervention group received a two-

hour class solely on making death notifications. The long-

intervention group received a 16-hour, two-day workshop based on the

Emergency Death Education and Crisis Training (EDECTSM) program. The

control group received a program about toxicology. Each participant

completed a questionnaire with items structured in a Likert five-

point format with " strongly agree " and " strongly disagree " as the

anchors.

Results. Before the training programs, most (77%) participants

reported that an EMT's actions impact the family's grief. Less than

half (43%) reported that an EMT's role should include making a death

notification. The majority (84%) reported that their training was

inadequate to make a death notification or to help the family with

their grief. Most (84%) felt uncomfortable making a death

notification. Those EMTs in the long-intervention group were

significantly more likely (92%) to feel that their training was

adequate after the intervention when compared with those EMTs in the

short-intervention group (43%) or those in the control group (21%).

Conclusion. The data showed that EMTs' attitudes toward death

changed after exposure to a training program about death.