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Self-resilience as a protective factor against development of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in police officers

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Title
Self-resilience as a protective factor against development of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in police officers
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Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, October 2016
DOI 10.1186/s40557-016-0145-9
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Jong-Ku Lee, Hyeon-Gyeong Choi, Jae-Yeop Kim, Juhyun Nam, Hee-Tae Kang, Sang-Baek Koh, Sung-Soo Oh

Abstract

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. 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. 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). 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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Country Count As %
Unknown 117 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 15%
Student > Bachelor 13 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 9%
Researcher 9 8%
Other 16 14%
Unknown 32 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 43 37%
Social Sciences 14 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 4%
Neuroscience 4 3%
Other 11 9%
Unknown 34 29%
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