Health behavior of paramedics : in the light of own research

Cechy charakterystyczne zawodu ratownika medycznego to między innymi ciągły kontakt z różnymi rodzajami chorób i urazów, ogromna odpowiedzialność za zdrowie i życie pacjentów oraz działanie w sytuacjach silnego stresu. Aby poradzić sobie z chronicznym napięciem psychicznym oraz zregenerować siły człowiek może wykorzystywać strategie prozdrowotne lub takie, które szkodzą zdrowiu. Celem artykułu jest dokonanie charakterystyki zachowań zdrowotnych ratowników medycznych. Jeśli weźmiemy pod uwagę stopień narażenia na stres w pracy, rezultat osiągnięty przez ratowników medycznych może niepokoić. Działania, które należy podjąć, aby podnieść poziom zachowań zdrowotnych ratowników medycznych powinny dotyczyć dwóch kwestii: regularnych szkoleń i warsztatów psychologicznych oraz spotkań grupowych, zwłaszcza po trudnych i wyczerpujących akcjach ratunkowych.Being a paramedic involves constant contact with different types of diseases and injuries, a huge responsibility for patients' health and life and work under high stress. To cope with chronic stress and to recuperate, one can use healthy or harmful strategies. This article aims to measure and describe health behaviors in paramedics. If we take into consideration the degree of stress at work, paramedics' results can be disturbing. Actions to be taken to raise the level of health behaviors should address two issues: regular training and psychological workshops and group meetings (defusing and debriefing), especially after difficult and exhausting rescue operations

Cat's Dilemma

We study a simple example of a sequential game illustrating problems connected with making rational decisions that are universal for social sciences. The set of chooser's optimal decisions that manifest his preferences in case of a constant strategy of the adversary (the offering player), is investigated. It turns out that the order imposed by the player's rational preferences can be intransitive. The presented quantitative results imply a revision of the "common sense" opinions stating that preferences showing intransitivity are paradoxical and undesired.

Quantum Cat's Dilemma: an Example of Intransitivity in a Quantum Game

We study a quantum version of the sequential game illustrating problems connected with making rational decisions. We compare the results that the two models (quantum and classical) yield. In the quantum model intransitivity gains importance significantly. We argue that the quantum model describes our spontaneously shown preferences more precisely than the classical model, as these preferences are often intransitive.

Do transitive preferences always result in indifferent divisions?

The transitivity of preferences is one of the basic assumptions used in the theory of games and decisions. It is often equated with rationality of choice and is considered useful in building rankings. Intransitive preferences are considered paradoxical and undesirable. This problem is discussed by many social and natural sciences. The paper discusses a simple model of sequential game in which two players in each iteration of the game choose one of the two elements. They make their decisions in different contexts defined by the rules of the game. It appears that the optimal strategy of one of the players can only be intransitive! (the so-called \textsl{relevant intransitive strategies}.) On the other hand, the optimal strategy for the second player can be either transitive or intransitive. A quantum model of the game using pure one-qubit strategies is considered. In this model, an increase in importance of intransitive strategies is observed -- there is a certain course of the game where intransitive strategies are the only optimal strategies for both players. The study of decision-making models using quantum information theory tools may shed some new light on the understanding of mechanisms that drive the formation of types of preferences.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure