On-Duty Nonfatal Injury that Lead to Work Absences Among Police Officers and Level of Perceived Stress
| Autor: | Desta Fekedulegn, Marjorie C. McCullagh, Christine West, Cecil M. Burchfiel, Siobán Harlow, Michael E. Andrew, Sung Kyun Park, C. Raymond Bingham, John M. Violanti |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Adult
Male Active duty Poison control Occupational safety and health Article 03 medical and health sciences Occupational Stress 0302 clinical medicine Injury prevention medicine Prevalence Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Cities Police psychology business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Human factors and ergonomics Middle Aged medicine.disease 030210 environmental & occupational health Occupational Injuries Police United States Cross-Sectional Studies Sick leave Female Perception Medical emergency Occupational stress Sick Leave business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of occupational and environmental medicine. 59(11) |
| ISSN: | 1536-5948 |
| Popis: | Objective We examined prevalence, frequency, duration, and recency of injury leave and the association of duty-related injury with perceived stress in U.S. police officers. Methods This cross-sectional study contained 422 active duty police officers from a mid-sized urban police department. For each participating officer, work history records were used to assess on-duty injuries that lead to work absences. Linear regression analyses were used for analyses. Results Most participants had experienced at least one injury (62%), and among those injured, 67% experienced more than one duty-related injury. The average number of injuries per officer was three (range 1 to 12). There was a significant linear trend in mean perceived stress across injury count even after adjusting for age, rank, and sex (P = 0.025). Conclusion Findings suggest that work-related injury is common and repeated work-related injuries are psychologically distressing in U.S. police officers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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