Table 3 Themes and categories extracted from content analysis
Theme | Categories | Selective Coding |
|---|---|---|
Professional capabilities | Clinical Competence | • Clinical knowledge • Clinical experience • Clinical skills • Teamwork skills • Time management skills • Clinical judgment skills |
Psychological empowerment | • Emotional stability • Resilience • Anger management | |
Occupational and environmental factors | Occupational factors | • Time of missions • Location of missions • Patients’ status • Fatigue and occupational burnout |
Environmental factors | • Conditions at the scene of accidents • Spread of infectious diseases | |
Inefficient organizational management | Structural Challenges | • Lack of a counseling doctor at the emergency dispatch centers • Conflicts in the regulations • lack of a clear operations manual |
Challenges of Human resources and medical equipment | • Shortage of medical equipment • Lack of personal protective equipment • Staff shortages | |
Ethical issues | physical privacy | • Respect for patients’ physical privacy • Respect for patients’ sexual privacy • Respect for patients’ religious beliefs |
sexual privacy |