Analysing Thurstone and Likert attitude scales as data collection methods

It is first important to define what an attitude is. Edelmann (2000) and Bowling (2002) both define an attitude as a disposition to evaluate a phenomenon in a particular way. Peoples’ attitudes in the...

I.F.E.A.R reflection: an easy to use, adaptable template for paramedics

Learning can be said to result from exposure to an experience. However, it is not the exposure alone which results in learning. It is in the process of reflecting on that experience and responding to...

A year in the life of a remote medic

We attended the course in March 2010 and found it to be excellent. The course needs to be well prepared for because as a part of it, you take a UK resuscitation advanced life support course on the...

Book Review

‘This book is very much of a mixed bag ’.

Disaster management and emergency planning at Coventry University

Based upon two decades of experience, the newly-established Centre for Disaster Management is already a successful initiative, based within the Department for Geography, Environment and Disaster...

Cardiac arrest in the young: rare but possible

This is not due to ignorance but a lack of education. In training school, ambulance staff are taught to deal with many extremes of traumatic situations and medical conditions in a very short space of...

Ambulance service charity celebrates 25 years of caring

‘The ASBF Jubilee year is an opportunity to remind everyone that we exist and to appeal for fund raising activities from as many people as possible’.

Assessment and management of chronic pain in adults: implications for paramedics

The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as ‘an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such...

Automated external defibrillators: everywhere?

Right place, AED not made available, poor outcome .

Prehospital continuous positive airway pressure ventilation in ACPO: part 2

A comprehensive English language literature search of MEDLINE and CINAHL from 2000 to November 2010 was conducted using a broad search strategy. The subject heading ‘CPAP’ was used including the...

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