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. 2025 Oct 9;25:3428. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-24686-w

Table 7.

Four top-scoring toolkits

Toolkit name Variable Mean Representative comments regarding toolkit
Care4Guide [39]

• “Useful, mostly engaging exercises. Lots of activities… This resource really feels like it ‘gets’ what it’s like to be a young first responder.”

• “Would be good as a baseline with some additional modules focused on the marine/SLSA environment.”

• “This seems to be really helpful, being geared specifically to young first responders and teaching resilience strategies, coping mechanisms etc.”

Usefulness 4.17
Relevance 4.17
Appropriateness 4.25
Accessibility 4.25
Specific trauma 4.05
General trauma 4.36
Build Your Space[46]

• “Specifically aimed at young people. Well known and highly regarded organisation providing the information which gives it credibility.”

• “A barrier would be needing to sign up (although, it would be impossible to otherwise make it so individualised) and I’m not sure how applicable it would be in a first response sense, but otherwise it would probably be very helpful.”

• “Even though there were many, many topics available, I was surprised to see very little relating to trauma specifically.”

Usefulness 3.91
Relevance 3.73
Appropriateness 3.82
Accessibility 3.55
Specific trauma 3.07
General trauma 3.90
Smiling Mind[45]

• “Would aid in mindfulness post critical incident which for some young people would find helpful.”

• “More accessible than the other resources and information is easier to digest.”

• “Good as a follow up to any training but not [as a] stand alone [resource].”

Usefulness 3.88
Relevance 3.75
Appropriateness 3.81
Accessibility 3.61
Specific trauma 2.90
General trauma 3.73
Community Trauma Toolkit[40] • “Focussing on young people and on traumatic events is obviously relevant. Although it’s not geared towards supporting first responders and their specific [needs], it is important to know for engaging with the community after these events and I would think knowing the information would have some benefits for the first responders.”
Usefulness 3.60
Relevance 3.73
Appropriateness 3.67
Accessibility 3.67
Specific trauma 3.48
General trauma 3.46