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Association of work-related stress with mental health problems in a special police force unit

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Garbarino, Sergio, Cuomo, Giovanni, Chiorri, Carlo, Magnavita, Nicola·2013·BMJ Open

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OBJECTIVES: Law and order enforcement tasks may expose special force police officers to significant psychosocial risk factors. The aim of this work is to investigate the relationship between job stress and the presence of mental health symptoms while controlling sociodemographical, occupational and personality variables in special force police officers. METHOD: At different time points, 292 of 294 members of the 'VI Reparto Mobile', a special police force engaged exclusively in the enforcement of law and order, responded to our invitation to complete questionnaires for the assessment of personality traits, work-related stress (using the Demand-Control-Support (DCS) and the Effort-Reward-Imbalance (ERI) models) and mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and burnout. RESULTS: Regression analyses showed that lower levels of support and reward and higher levels of effort and overcommitment were associated with higher levels of mental health symptoms. Psychological screening revealed 21 (7.3%) likely cases of mild depression (Beck Depression Inventory, BDI≥10). Officers who had experienced a discrepancy between work effort and rewards showed a marked increase in the risk of depression (OR 7.89, 95% CI 2.32 to 26.82) when compared with their counterparts who did not perceive themselves to be in a condition of distress. CONCLUSIONS: The findings of this study suggest that work-related stress may play a role in the development of mental health problems in police officers. The prevalence of mental health symptoms in the cohort investigated here was low, but not negligible in the case of depression. Since special forces police officers have to perform sensitive tasks for which a healthy psychological functioning is needed, the results of this study suggest that steps should be taken to prevent distress and improve the mental well-being of these workers.

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Authors
Garbarino, S., Cuomo, G., Chiorri, C., & Magnavita, N.
Affiliations
  • Ministry of Interior (IT)
  • University of Genoa (IT)
  • Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (IT)
Corresponding author
Magnavita, Nicola
Venue
BMJ Open
Publisher
BMJ
Published
2013-07
Volume
3
Issue
7
Pages
e002791
ISSN
2044-6055 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2131695063
Cited by
222
References
71
Citations by year
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16.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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cc-by-nc
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  • BMJ Open (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Occupational Health and Burnout
Keywords
occupational stress, mental health, police mental health, depression, anxiety, burnout, effort-reward imbalance, demand-control-support model, psychosocial risk factors, psychological screening, psychological well-being

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