Occupational stress and coping strategies among police officers

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Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Διαχείριση Κρίσεων και Επειγουσών Καταστάσεων - Ταξιδιωτική και Διεθνής Υγεία: Διαχείριση Κρίσεων και Επειγουσών Καταστάσεων
Library of the School of Health Sciences
Deposit date:
2018-09-28
Year:
2018
Author:
Fragkou Despoina
Supervisors info:
Κατσούλας Θεόδωρος, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Νοσηλευτική, ΕΚΠΑ
Καλοκαιρινού Αθηνά, Καθηγήτρια, Νοσηλευτική, ΕΚΠΑ
Καϊτελίδου Δάφνη, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Νοσηλευτική, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Άγχος λόγω του επαγγέλματος και στρατηγικές διαχείρισής του σε αστυνομικούς
Translated title:
Occupational stress and coping strategies among police officers
Summary:
Introduction: Stressor events among police officers are frequently due to the nature of their work and result on anxiety.
Aim: Measurement of occupational stress among police officers and investigation of determinants of this stress.
Methods: A cross-sectional study with a convenience sample was conducted among 336 police officers in Athens. Data collection was performed during January to March 2018 and response rate was 77.8% (=336/432). Study determinants emerged from systematic literature review. "Operational Police Stress Questionnaire" and "Organizational Police Stress Questionnaire" were used to measure occupational stress while the "Brief Cope" questionnaire was used to measure coping strategies.
Results: Regarding service operation, the most stressor events were personal relationships outside work, tiredness, bureaucracy, injury risk and lack of leisure forfamily and friends. Regarding service organization, the most stressor events were lack of personnel, inappropriate equipment, lack of meritocracy, lack of sources and inappropriate distribution of responsibilities in work. Focus on problem was the most frequent coping strategy and then focus on emotional and focus on avoidance. According to multivariate analysis, decrease of sleeping, increase use of coping strategy focus on avoidance, decrease of physical exercise and decrease of family/friends support were associated with increased stress. Moreover, police officers that do not work in office had more stress than police officers that work in office.
Conclusions: Creation and adaptation of the appropriate measures are necessary to decrease stress among police officers e.g. application of health promotion programs to adapt positive coping strategies instead of negative.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Stress, Police officers, Determinants, Coping strategies
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
Yes
Number of references:
81
Number of pages:
85
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