Exploring the impact of retirement on police officers wellbeing

Carney, Christine; Bates, Lyndel; Sargeant, Elise

doi:10.1080/15614263.2019.1658584

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“…Compared with other professions, police officers and staff have different retirement policies; this means that they retire at a younger age than civilians and have more chance of experiencing negative impacts as they move toward retirement [ 22 ]. An Italian study found that retirees who were financially well-off were less likely to experience declining health when compared with those who were not [ 23 ].…”

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A Tailored mHealth App for Improving Health and Well-Being Behavioral Transformation in UK Police Workers: Usability Testing via a Mixed Methods Study

Mehra¹,

Pulman²,

Doğan³

et al. 2023

JMIR Hum Factors

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Background When considering the policing environment of 2022, many roles previously in the domain of warranted officers (police officer) are now performed by nonwarranted police staff equivalents. These police staff roles have expanded rapidly into other areas such as investigations, custody, and contact management, which were traditionally seen as police officer functions and put staff under some of the same stresses as police officers. A UK police force requested help in investigating technologies that could be used to improve health and well-being for both officers and staff. Objective The aim of this study was to create a health and well-being app for police officers and staff, which considered the unique requirements of the users throughout the designing, building, prototyping, and testing stages. Methods This study involved quantitative approaches (demographic web-based survey questions and the System Usability Scale) and qualitative approaches (open web-based survey questions and semistructured interviews). Unsupervised usability testing of a prototype app was undertaken by members (N=48) of the commissioning client using their smartphones. After completing a preregistration application for screening purposes, participants downloaded a trial version of the app. Then, they completed a web-based questionnaire after testing the app for 10 days. A subsample of participants (9/48, 19%) was interviewed. Deductive thematic analysis was undertaken to identify key themes and subthemes. Results Data collected during usability testing concerned the 6 domains of the app—food and diet, activity, fluid intake, sleep, good mental health, and financial well-being—and informed the creation of improved design during prototyping. Some usability and design issues and suggestions for improvements were also addressed and implemented—including shift management and catch-up cards—during this cycle of development. Conclusions This study highlights the importance of coparticipation with officers and staff across the entire development cycle, to coproduce a human-centered design methodology to enable the development of a considered and user-centered solution. It demonstrates the need for producing a multifunctional tool rather than focusing purely on an individual element for this user group. It also highlights how linking and being able to track optional, personalized elements of health data against one another, cross-referenced to individual shift patterns, might help to inform and provide users with a chance for reflection and therefore influence behavior change.

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A Tailored mHealth App for Improving Health and Well-Being Behavioral Transformation in UK Police Workers: Usability Testing via a Mixed Methods Study

Mehra¹,

Pulman²,

Doğan³

et al. 2023

JMIR Hum Factors

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“…Peer support has assisted veterans to create new futures and reconstructed identities and contributed to veterans increasing sense of worthiness and consequently wellbeing. The provision of adequate resources required to assist transitions from service has been recognised as an important factor for creating new identities, interests and career opportunities (Tufano, 2018; Carney et al, 2021). Increases in social connection and social support as experienced in a peer support program model (Pahk and Baek, 2021) is a material benefit aiding the exploration of future career and interest options.…”

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From active police duty to civilian life: The role of peer support

Venville

Kostecki

McGowan

et al. 2022

The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles

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This qualitative study explores the contribution of peer support to the mental health and wellbeing of police veterans. Thematic analysis of interview data with veterans ( n = 7), partners ( n = 1) and veteran peer support officers ( n = 10) captures the participant experience. Two key themes were integral to the contribution peer support makes to veteran wellbeing. First, the centrality of police identity and the importance of belonging to a supportive police community. Second, the need for hope and possibilities in transitioning from policing to civilian life. Social work services and trained peers provide veterans with a road map for re-building a life and identity away from the force.

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“…The effects of work-related stress and trauma can linger into an officer's retirement and new, associated, maladies may develop (Black et al, 2013;Paton et al, 2009;Patterson et al, 2001;Violanti et al, 1998). Furthermore, some retirees struggle emotionally for having been cut loose from the police fraternity and a perceived loss of social status and/or sense of purpose (Bullock et al, 2019;Carney et al, 2019;Caudill and Peak, 2009;Violanti, 1992). Qualitative research also suggests retirees who struggle with the residual effects of their career are less satisfied with their lives (Bullock et al, 2019;Carney et al, 2019;Violanti, 1992).…”

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“…Furthermore, some retirees struggle emotionally for having been cut loose from the police fraternity and a perceived loss of social status and/or sense of purpose (Bullock et al, 2019;Carney et al, 2019;Caudill and Peak, 2009;Violanti, 1992). Qualitative research also suggests retirees who struggle with the residual effects of their career are less satisfied with their lives (Bullock et al, 2019;Carney et al, 2019;Violanti, 1992). Among the wider retiree population, resilience leads to less frequent use of healthcare resources and higher levels of subjective well-being (Ezeamama et al, 2015;Nalin and Franca, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The current study aims to address three limitations in the existing literature. First, we focus on retired police officers, and in contrast to other studies that rely on small samples (Carney et al, 2019;Pole et al, 2006) or whose participants are drawn from a single police service or specialized units (e.g. Sollie et al, 2017), our participants come from police services across Ontario, Canada's largest province.…”

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After 10–7: trauma, resilience and satisfaction with life among retired police officers

Parnaby

Broll

2020

PIJPSM

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PurposeMost research on trauma, resilience and well-being among police officers focusses on those still on active duty. Comparatively speaking, and despite an aging workforce and established negative health outcomes, similar inquiries involving police retirees are not as common. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of on- and off-the-job trauma and resilience on satisfaction with life among a sample of retired police officers.Design/methodology/approachData were collected via a cross-sectional nonprobability electronic survey of police retirees in Ontario, Canada. While controlling for employment-related variables and demographic characteristics, a series of hierarchical multiple regression models were used to examine the effects of on- and off-the-job trauma and resilience on satisfaction with life among a sample of 932 participants.FindingsThe analysis indicates that off-the-job trauma and both personal and social dimensions of resilience contribute uniquely to satisfaction with life among police retirees. Moreover, this full model explains nearly 37% of the variance in satisfaction with life.Originality/valueThis study's findings offer further direction to those working to support the health and well-being of officers currently on the job and those well into their retirement years.

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Exploring the impact of retirement on police officers wellbeing

Cited by 6 publications

References 62 publications

A Tailored mHealth App for Improving Health and Well-Being Behavioral Transformation in UK Police Workers: Usability Testing via a Mixed Methods Study

A Tailored mHealth App for Improving Health and Well-Being Behavioral Transformation in UK Police Workers: Usability Testing via a Mixed Methods Study

From active police duty to civilian life: The role of peer support

After 10–7: trauma, resilience and satisfaction with life among retired police officers

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