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Adaptation, implementation, and evaluation of a protective mental health intervention (Resilient minds) for Canadian volunteer firefighters

2025· article· en· W4415529194 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Joy C. MacDermid, Shannon Killip, Amanda Brazil, Margaret Lomotan, Steve F. Fraser, Dianne Bryant, Heidi Cramm, R. Nicholas Carleton

Bibliographic record

VenueComprehensive Psychiatry · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPosttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of ReginaVancouver Biotech (Canada)Queen's UniversityMcMaster UniversityUniversity of Prince Edward IslandSt Joseph's Health CentreHand and Upper Limb ClinicWestern University
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchCanadian Mental Health AssociationCanada Research Chairs
KeywordsVolunteerMental healthIntervention (counseling)Training (meteorology)Occupational safety and healthCrisis intervention

Abstract

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PURPOSE: The study was designed to assess the adaptation, implementation, and delivery of the Resilient Minds program for volunteer firefighters in Prince Edward Island. METHODS: A concurrent triangulation mixed-methods approach was used. Survey data were collected from firefighters who participated in the training, and semi-structured interviews were performed with peer trainers, members of leadership, and firefighters who participated in the implementation. Summary statistics were performed to summarize the survey data, and thematic analysis was performed to analyze the qualitative data following interpretive description methods. We followed the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to guide our data collection and analyses. RESULTS: The relative advantage of Resilient Minds (i.e., created for firefighters) and the high-priority need for mental health training promoted buy-in from stakeholders and facilitated program implementation. Most participants described the training as helpful (84 %), and reported high intention to use the information (86 %). At three-month follow-up, most reported being able to recall the training (83 %), and reported increased support from colleagues (59 %) and leadership (50 %). Our qualitative data identified improvements in coping and awareness of mental health issues, and decreases in mental health stigma. Suggestions were provided to improve the adaptation and implementation (e.g., simplifying the content, obtaining funding). CONCLUSION: Our results support the adaptation, implementation, and delivery of Resilient Minds among Canadian volunteer firefighters. Scaled delivery of the training across Canada will require collaborations among the developers, local implementation leads, and other stakeholders in the local fire services to adapt the course content and implementation procedures for the needs of each fire department.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.774
Threshold uncertainty score0.956

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.072
GPT teacher head0.445
Teacher spread0.373 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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