Self-resilience as a protective factor against development of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in police officers
Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
;
: 58-2016.
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in English
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
This study was conducted to check whether self-resilience, one of the characteristics known to affect the occurrence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms after experiencing traumatic events, could serve as a protective factor for police officers whose occupational factors are corrected.METHODS:
We conducted a cross-sectional study in which 112 male police officers in Gangwon Province participated. They visited the Wonju Severance Christian Hospital Occupational Environment Center for medical check-ups from June to December 2015. Their general characteristics were identified using structured questionnaires, and they were asked to fill in the Korean Occupational Stress Scale-Short Form (KOSS-SF). Further, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D), Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale-Korean (CD-RI-K), and Impact of Event Scale-Revised-Korean version (IES-R-K) were used to evaluate their job stress, depression, self-resilience, and PTSD symptoms. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to correct their personal, occupational, and psychological factors to analyze the relationship between self-resilience and PTSD symptoms.RESULTS:
Among 112 respondents who experienced a traumatic event, those with low self-resilience had significantly higher rate of PTSD symptoms than those with high self-resilience even after correcting for the covariate of general, occupational, and psychological characteristics (odds ratio [OR] 3.51; 95 % CI 1.06–19.23).CONCLUSIONS:
Despite several limitations, these results suggest that a high degree of self-resilience may protect police officers from critical incident-related PTSD symptoms.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Psychology
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Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
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Logistic Models
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Cross-Sectional Studies
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Police
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Depression
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Protective Factors
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prevalence study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
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Risk factors
Limits:
Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Year:
2016
Type:
Article
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