STUDY UPDATE September 2011

The Final Report was approved for release by WorkSafeBC and is available for viewing or downloading. 

February 2011

The Final Report has been completed and submitted to WorkSafeBC. The WorkSafeBC Board will have an opportunity to review the report at their May 2011 meeting after which a PDF of the Final Report will be posted here.

August 2010

The first draft of the Final Report has been sent to WorkSafeBC and stakeholders. We anticipate that by the end of September 2010 the Final Report will be posted on the Results page of this site. Check back here for the announcement that the Final Report is available.

July 2010

Recruitment of Paramedics for the Pilot testing of the Physiological Testing component of the study is complete. We would like to thank all the paramedics who took the time to be a part of this study and provided us with valuable information regarding the paramedic profession. This study could not have happened without your patience, cooperation and willingness to complete the rigorous sampling schedule. Your efforts have resulted in over a 90% compliance with all study measures. See the Work Stress page for more details on the Physiological component of the study.

January, 2009

Analyses on the cohort study data is still being conducted. Data for the anonymous questionnaire study is also still in the analysis stage.

February, 2009

Data for the cohort study is in the full analysis stage. Data for the anonymous questionnaire study is also in full analysis stage.

July 29, 2008

Data cleaning is ongoing and preliminary analysis has begun.

May 30, 2008

Coding and data entry of the sub-survey is complete.

We are entering the last stage of the study as all data is now in queue to be analysed. The initial step is data cleaning. Once this is done the real analysis can begin.

Feb 19, 2008

Coding of the sub-study surveys (the anonymous and randomly mailed questionnaires) is ongoing.

Dec 11, 2007

Collection of the sub-study surveys (the anonymous and randomly mailed questionnaires) concluded in October. Coding and preliminary analysis are the next steps.