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Paramedics and mental illness
1. N E W Z E A L A N D P A R A M E D I C ’ S V I E W S A N D
P E R C E P T I O N S O F T H E I R L E V E L O F
T R A I N I N G I N A S S E S S I N G A N D T R E A T I N G
M E N T A L L Y I L L P A T I E N T S .
Paramedics and Mental Illness
2. Why I chose this topic for research
Previous ambulance encounters with patients suffering
from mental illness
Finding great limitation in New Zealand research in
paramedic treatment of mentally ill patients
Wanted to establish how paramedics feel
Research Question: Do paramedics feel they have
sufficient training in assessing and treating mentally ill
patients?
3. Why I chose these methods and design
Quantitative approach (closed answer questionnaire)
Questionnaire for increased representativeness
Larger sample size will enable a broad view of
current paramedics views.
Easily quantifiable and analyzable data
Possible forerunner for qualitative studies
4. Why I chose these methods and design
Sample including paramedics from Basic Life
support to Advanced Life Support Level
Only including St John Paramedics
Systematic sampling to avoid laborious process of
simple random method (every kth number is chosen
for the sample)
Stratification used to include paramedics from both
rural and metropolitan areas.
5. Why I chose these methods and design
Sample size 400 paramedics
A 50% response rate will give a sample of 5% of total
paramedics.
Practical size for processing
Online questionnaire to increase response rate by
ease of completion
6. Why I chose these methods and design
To avoid different interpretation of the questions.
The questions were made clear and specific.
“Sufficiency of training” was defined as whether or
not in their opinion the training enabled confidence
and an appropriate level of patient care.
7. How the study will analyse the data
Multivariate analysis to establish relationship
between variables, years of experience, authority to
practice level, and rural vs metropolitan with the way
they feel about levels of training
Univariate to gain overall proportion of paramedics
that feel training is sufficient
8. Implications for practice
Identification of possible area of improvement in
pre-hospital patient care
Forrunner to research establishing what training is
needed.
9. references
Babbie, E. (2008). The basic of social research 4th ed.
Belmont, Ca: Thomson Wadsorth
Order of St John. (2010). Ambulance Services.
Retrieved 1 September, 2010, from
http://www.stjohn.org.nz/products/ambulance.aspx