Radnor Fire Company: Case Study

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The study took place at Radnor Fire Company. Radnor Fire Company provides fire and emergency medical services to Radnor and Tredyffrin Townships in Delaware County, Pennsylvania (RFC, n.d.). Radnor Fire Company is funded through Radnor and Tredyffrin Townships and the company members are volunteers who live in the community or career staff. Population / Sample The population in the study was a convenience sample from the Radnor Fire Company. The fire company has approximately 77 members including the career staff, active and honorary active members (RFC, n.d.). Members were asked if they would like to participate in the study at the end of a company meeting on February 19th, 2018. Inclusion / Exclusion Criteria To be included in the study the participant must be a member of the Radnor Fire Company and above the age of 18. Any member that did not wish to participate was able to do so without …show more content…

To assess the emotional well-being of the participants, pre and post intervention, the Visual Facial Anxiety Scale was used. This scale uses six emoji style faces representing different emotional levels, participants identify the face which correlates with their current emotional level. The Visual Facial Anxiety Scale was validated by comparison to the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, which consists of two separate 20 item questionnaires. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Visual Facial Anxiety Scale had a correlation of 0.70 demonstrating the tool's validity (Cao et al., 2017). Permission to use the Visual Facial Anxiety Scale for this study was granted by developer, Paul White (P. White, personal communication, August 8, 2017). The selection of this tool to measure emotional well-being was based on the assumption posed by Diener (2006) that global measures which capture life satisfaction can be used to detect changes and trends related to an intervention for

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