The critical incident inventory: characteristics of incidents which affect emergency medical technicians and paramedics

Table 5 Spearman rank-order correlation between number of critical incident characteristics endorsed and post-critical incident variables

	Situational (6-item)	Systemic (8-item)	Personal (8-item)	Total (36-item)	Total (22-item)	Total (14-item)
Peritraumatic dissociation	0.35***	0.22**	0.47***	0.51***	0.46***	0.50***
Post-CI prolonged physical arousal	0.19**	0.22**	0.39***	0.37***	0.38***	0.37***
Post-CI prolonged distressing feelings	0.16*	0.16*	0.36***	0.32***	0.33***	0.32***
Post-CI prolonged social withdrawal	0.23**	0.18**	0.32***	0.35***	0.35***	0.32***
Post-CI prolonged insomnia	0.19**	0.18**	0.39***	0.41***	0.37***	0.37***
Post-CI prolonged irritability	0.23**	0.27***	0.33***	0.37***	0.35***	0.36***
Current depressive symptoms	0.11	0.21**	0.30***	0.30***	0.26***	0.29**
Current posttraumatic symptoms	0.22**	0.21**	0.39***	0.38***	0.39***	0.39***
Current burnout symptoms	0.17*	0.20**	0.24**	0.27***	0.25**	0.26**

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