Class of 2016 Abstract and Report / Objectives: Specific Aim #1: Assess the impact of the Community Integrated Paramedic program on the participants. Our working hypothesis is that the participants will find the program to be impactful in many aspects and beneficial.
Specific Aim #2: The impact of the program on the participating paramedics. Our working hypothesis is that the paramedics will report positive themes as a result of participation in the program.
Methods: 5 individuals who were enrolled in the paramedicine program and 6 volunteer paramedics participated in semi-structured face-to-face interviews. Interviews were transcribed data was grouped into categories and subcategories to identify common themes associated with participation in a community paramedicine program for both participants and paramedics.
Results: Three primary themes emerged for participants: disease-self management, safety and support. Disease-self management included 7 subdomains: medication management, exercise, diet, resources and utilization, communication with providers, disease education, and self-awareness. Safety included 4 subdomains: medication safety, home safety, fall prevention, and environmental hazards. Support included 2 subdomains: physical and emotional. One primary theme emerged for volunteer paramedics: job satisfaction. Job satisfaction included 8 subdomains: helping people, decreasing emergencies, learning new skills, educating people, expand knowledge base, rewarding experience, building relationships, and documenting impact.
Conclusions: A community paramedicine program is positively correlated with emotional support, disease management and safety for participants involved. Additionally, the program is associated with increased job satisfaction for paramedics.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/613964 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Do, Lien, Flores-Keown, Brieanna, Vu, Alicia, Warholak, Terri |
| Contributors | Warholak, Terri, College of Pharmacy, The University of Arizona |
| Publisher | The University of Arizona. |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Electronic Report |
| Rights | Copyright © is held by the author. |
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