Is Absence Related to Work Stress? A Repeated Cross‐<scp>S</scp>ectional Study on a Special Police Force

Magnavita, Nicola; Garbarino, Sergio

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“…Previous studies on this cohort have shown that younger officers, those who were single, had a shorter length of service, lived in barracks, had a lower rank and who were closer to their families had a higher short-term sickness absence risk35 and that DCS control and support and ERI reward measures were negatively related to frequency of absence and short-term absence and that DCS demand and ERI effort measures were positively related to total lost days 36. Moreover, it has been reported that the majority of these officers described themselves as much more emotionally stable and slightly to moderately more extraverted, agreeable, conscientious and open to experience than the general population and career soldiers4 and that some personality traits (mainly emotional stability and agreeableness) were associated to perceived stress levels or reactivity to environmental stressors 37…”

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Association of work-related stress with mental health problems in a special police force unit

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ObjectivesLaw and order enforcement tasks may expose special force police officers to significant psychosocial risk factors. The aim of this work is to investigate the relationship between job stress and the presence of mental health symptoms while controlling sociodemographical, occupational and personality variables in special force police officers.MethodAt different time points, 292 of 294 members of the ‘VI Reparto Mobile’, a special police force engaged exclusively in the enforcement of law and order, responded to our invitation to complete questionnaires for the assessment of personality traits, work-related stress (using the Demand–Control–Support (DCS) and the Effort–Reward–Imbalance (ERI) models) and mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and burnout.ResultsRegression analyses showed that lower levels of support and reward and higher levels of effort and overcommitment were associated with higher levels of mental health symptoms. Psychological screening revealed 21 (7.3%) likely cases of mild depression (Beck Depression Inventory, BDI≥10). Officers who had experienced a discrepancy between work effort and rewards showed a marked increase in the risk of depression (OR 7.89, 95% CI 2.32 to 26.82) when compared with their counterparts who did not perceive themselves to be in a condition of distress.ConclusionsThe findings of this study suggest that work-related stress may play a role in the development of mental health problems in police officers. The prevalence of mental health symptoms in the cohort investigated here was low, but not negligible in the case of depression. Since special forces police officers have to perform sensitive tasks for which a healthy psychological functioning is needed, the results of this study suggest that steps should be taken to prevent distress and improve the mental well-being of these workers.

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“…The health issues and the absenteeism variables were not correlated in this study and the average absence days caused by health problems increased in the tested group over time. The cause is probably reduced presentism, as previous studies have demonstrated that the number of days of sickness absence from work correlate to critical and responsible assessment of health (Cancelliere et al, 2011), to perception of one's own health (Paulik, 2010), to self-perceived job strain and to social support at work (Magnavita & Garbarino, 2013). Social support is conceptualized as the resources provided to an individual in a difficult situation (Yayan & Celebioglu, 2017).…”

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Evaluating Workplace Health Promotion Program

Peršolja

2017

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Due to the complexity of health promotion interventions, uneconomical evaluation indicators are recommended. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of multi-component workplace health promotion intervention. The goals were to study the association of health promotion with health status. In a controlled study trial, 278 workers of primary schools and municipal administration had the chance to participate in six-month workplace health promotion program. Employees have fulfilled a questionnaire at baseline and then again after completion of the program. The results showed that in the test group, the incidence of problems with health significantly declined, but the rating of health status decreased and the average absence days increased over time. The higher working hours per week correlated to obesity and high blood pressure. It can be concluded that workplace health promotion activity could support a change in health status and therefore contribute to higher quality of life. IntroductionProblem statement Health promotion includes many meanings under which are hidden all the activities and programs that support human health (Development, 2004). In Europe, organizations introduced health promotion mainly due to pressures from laws, requirements of workers and their health problems, and in order to raise their reputation. The European model treats the individual and his environment includes a wide range of work methods and tries to integrate into the existing structure of the organization. Europe is therefore somewhat less focused on the risk factors in an individual and more on the quality of working life and working environment (O'Donnel, 2002). As is clear from the research, there are many potential benefits of health promotion in the workplace (Aldana et al., 2005;Baxter et al., 2014;Goetzel & Ozminkowski, 2008;Rongen et al., 2013): improved satisfaction with work, increased loyalty, increased involvement of employees, improved interpersonal relationships at work, enhanced self-esteem, creativity, employee productivity, improved organizations' reputation, smaller turnover, easier recruitment of new personnel, improved health of employees, reduced absenteeism, tardiness, and injuries at work, less use of health services, reduced treatment costs, amongst many others. Health is determined by changes in which a person can consciously make decisions and achieve the best in given circumstances. Understanding health as a complex entity, therefore, sets health promotion as intricate, and health interventions as difficult to synthesize (Waters et al., 2006). Workplace health promotion efficiency evaluation is crucial for managers to support these activities in organizations. Process evaluation provides an analysis of the development during implementation of the program and measures the ratio between the result and the expectations. The program evaluation measures the changes that have occurred in connection with the activities carried out. A cause-effect relationship between health promotion and...

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“…Studies on police personnel in different ethnic population strengthen f indings that police work is constantly stressful job due to hazardous environmental work exposures and includes workplace violence (Violanti 2013;Masilamani 2013;Pourshaikhian 2016). As a result prevalence of considerable associated et al., et al, et al, et al, mental ill-health like emotional disturbances, sickness absence (Magnavita and Garbarino, 2013), stress-related diseases (Izawa 2016), poor sleep quality (Charles 2016), depression (Lawson 2012), anxiety, psychological distress, dissatisfaction with life, health p ro b l e m s es p e c i a l ly d i ges t ive, n e r vo u s, a n d musculoskeletal, and adverse work conditions such as excessive workload and feeling of victimization (Souza 2012) symptoms might be expected in such population. Working in irregular shifts is ultimately get associated with irregular diet, adverse habits, obesity, larger waist circumferences/higher body mass index and alteration of some lipid measures among male police personnel working the midnight shift (Charles 2016;Violanti 2013).…”

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Consequences of Split Shift Work in Indian Traff ic Police Personnel: DaytimeSleepiness, Stressorsand Psychological Distress

Soni¹,

Kar²,

Agrawal³

2016

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The present study was aimed to measure the daily routine preference, daytime sleepiness, and psychological distress experiences, because of split shift system job in a sample in traff ic police personnel of Raipur city, India. To measure such parameters we used the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire, Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), Operational Police Stress Questionnaire (OPSQ), General Health Questionnaire and the Distress. To evaluate differences between age, body mass index, period of service length and drug / alcohol use for all the subjects (traff ic police personnel) the t-test and chi-square test were used. Total Hundred male traff ic police personnel participated and out of which most of them were found to belong in the evening active category. This study also indicates increased prevalence of excessive daytime sleepiness and (EDS) high level of psychological distress as measured by the GHQ-12 among few police workers. Moreover, a number of participants reported signif icant distress levels, when measured with distress thermometer. In nutshell, the study sample suggests adaptive coping strategies of traff ic police personnel working in split shift system profession can be attributed to theirevening (E)-type circadian preferences. AbstractIntroduction:

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Is Absence Related to Work Stress? A Repeated Cross‐Sectional Study on a Special Police Force

Abstract: Stress variables are associated with sickness absence, although the association is weak. Both short-term and prolonged sickness absence should be regarded as a warning sign for subsequent sickness absence and distress.

Cited by 60 publications

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Association of work-related stress with mental health problems in a special police force unit

Association of work-related stress with mental health problems in a special police force unit

Evaluating Workplace Health Promotion Program

Consequences of Split Shift Work in Indian Traff ic Police Personnel: DaytimeSleepiness, Stressorsand Psychological Distress

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