Cardiovascular Health Survey
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The following is a request from the First Responder Center for Excellence for Reducing Occupational Illness, Injuries and Deaths, Inc., a National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Affiliate.
The First Responders Center has been in contact with a research team assessing the cardiovascular health of firefighters. Last year, we helped them distribute the electronic survey to our members and requested that you complete the survey regarding your medical and social history and forward the survey link to 2-5 family members/friends who are not in the fire service. So far, the research team has received an enormous response from the firefighters group; however, the response rate from friends and family was low. Having a robust control group of family/friend responses is important for detecting meaningful differences in the rates of various diseases between firefighters and non-firefighters.
From the preliminary data collected thus far, the research team expects significant and far-reaching findings but they require more family and friend responses to confirm these findings. We want to help the team receive more firefighter and, more importantly, family and friend responses. If you haven’t completed the survey already, please follow the link below to complete the survey and forward the link to 5 or more family members/friends who are most likely to participate in the survey. If you already participated in the study last year, you do not need to complete it again but the team asks that you still forward the survey link to 5 or more family members/friends to help them obtain the appropriate number of control group responses to show meaningful differences between the health of firefighters and non-firefighters.
Access the survey here.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Ed Klima, Managing Director
First Responder Center for Excellence for Reducing Occupational Illness, Injuries and Deaths, Inc.
A National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Affiliate
2130 Priest Bridge Dr.
Suite 11
Crofton, MD 21114
