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Comparison of the psychosocial intervention within the basic sectors of the Integrated Rescue System
KUBÍČEK, Pavel
Theoretical part First chapter of my thesis on Comparison of Psychosocial Crisis Intervention among Basic Parts of the Integrated Rescue System deals with general topics like stress and its symptoms. The next chapter follows individual parts of the integrated rescue system and stress situations resulting from their jobs. Work in IRS varies a lot but the impact on people employed in IRS is pretty similar. Third chapter deals with crisis management. Following is chapter number four presenting signs, forms and steps of crisis intervention. The most important chapter of the theoretical section of the thesis is the fifth chapter called Options of crisis intervention for IRS parts. The options of psychological support for firemen, policemen and paramedics are described here in detail. Research part I intended to find out to what extent is a job with IRS burdensome for its members, whether they know about the options of psychological support and how they make use of it employing a survey consisting of 26 questions. 300 people were addressed with the return rate amounting to 87,67%. Basic descriptive statistics were produced. Hypothesis no. 1 and 2 were tested by Chi-square test on the level of significance of 0,05. Hypothesis no. 3 was tested by Fischer exact test on the level of significance of 0,05. Objectives of the thesis were following: to explain terms related to the topic of psychosocial crisis intervention to assess the means of support each part of IRS offers its members to find out whether the members of IRS know about these means of support and use them to compare these support services provided by respective parts of IRS and come up with suggestions for eventual improvement Results The survey contains all three parts of IRS proportionately. The most respondents work at ZZS (paramedics, 36,5%), the least at the Police force (30,8%). Regarding the hypotheses and objectives of my thesis the outcomes are following. 68,8% of the respondents agreed that their job is mentally very demanding. Level of psychological stress is the same for all parts of IRS. This corroborates the first hypothesis. 87,8% of respondents claim to know about the option of psychologist or peer consultations. Yet only 27,8% of respondents admit to make use of this option, with firemen doing so most frequently. The second hypothesis was corroborated only to a certain extent for only 16 members of Police claimed to make use of psychological support. Of all the respondents in the survey 158 people admit to have never used this kind of support. Hypothesis no. 3 was thus corroborated. Conclusion All the members of IRS regard their work as psychologically very stressful. The research part proved that level of information about means of crisis intervention is high among the members of IRS. Mainly firemen consider the psychological support to be necessary, a fact which could be expected relating to the nature of their job. Policemen are those who use the least of crisis intervention support (and provided the smallest number of respondents for the survey as well). Crisis intervention is most popular with the firemen. Nevertheless it is necessary to continue raising consciousness about crisis intervention and its practical delivery.
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