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

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....

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Published in:Annals of occupational and environmental medicine 2016, 28(4), , pp.1-7
Main Authors: Lee, Jong-Ku, Choi, Hyeon-Gyeong, Kim, Jae-Yeop, Nam, Juhyun, Kang, Hee-Tae, Koh, Sang-Baek, Oh, Sung-Soo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Health aspects
Mental depression
Mental disorders
Occupational stress
Police
Post traumatic stress disorder
Resilience (Personality trait)
Risk factors
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2052-4374
2052-4374
DOI:10.1186/s40557-016-0145-9