Utilizing Meditation Audio in Warrior Mind Training Treat Traumatized Firefighters
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https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v20i.2453Keywords:
Meditation; Traumatize; Firefighter; Insomnia; Warrior Mind Training.Abstract
Meditation is a psychological concept that has become a hot topic recently in the field of neuroscience. Based on many fundamental and crucial experiments or research, people discovered that meditation, however, is a stress buster that helps people to alleviate the symptoms of anxiety disorders spectrums with its scientific mechanisms that are studied. When it comes to firefighters frequently exposed to traumatic fire scenes and at risk of being traumatized, chances are high that meditation will be a pragmatic way of improving their resistance when exposed to the trauma without any side effects caused by its medication. This paper examines the effectiveness of meditation in alleviating PTSD or traumatized symptoms for firefighters with the use of two psychological scales, analyzing and categorizing each result in the statistic. By listening to the meditation audio, the symptoms of insomnia and anxiety have been assuaged, shown by the post-intervention group with p=0.099<0.1, χ2 =4.63 in insomnia-scale measurement, as well as p=0.079<0.1, χ2 = 3.086 in traumatized-scale measurement, embodying the effectiveness of meditation in alleviating traumatized symptoms and insomnia severity as prediction (P was set at 0.1).
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