Implementing psychological first aid ontology

PLoS One. 2021 Jun 9;16(6):e0252891. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252891. eCollection 2021.

Abstract

Background: This study develops an ontology of Psychological First Aid (PFA) by extracting relevant knowledge from a review of PFA literature.

Materials and methods: This study was conducted using the PFA ontology development 101 method. This review processes previously-developed PFA studies by consulting Google Scholar, CINHL, PUBMED, and MEDLINE. Protege 5.0 program was used to integrate with ontology development. The developed PFA ontology consisted of eight super classes: Action agenda, Assessment, Concrete method, Disaster type, Disaster disposition, Purpose, Qualification and Skill, Reaction. In total, 166 terms were collected.

Results: The eight super classes were divided into 72 classes and 64 subclasses. The composition yielded in a total of 166 axioms (85 logical axioms; 81 declaration axioms).

Conclusions: This study provides basic data to guide development and composition of PFA arbitration programs.

MeSH terms

  • Disaster Planning / organization & administration*
  • Emergency Responders / psychology*
  • First Aid / methods
  • First Aid / standards*
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice*
  • Health Personnel / psychology*
  • Humans
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic / standards*
  • Resilience, Psychological*

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.