Work-related stress among correctional officers: A qualitative study

Viotti, Sara

doi:10.3233/wor-152238

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“…International research, with the aim of studying the causes and effects of burnout in prison officers, has grown strongly, particularly in the last decade. However, as stated by Viotti (2016), there are still very few studies in the Italian context. Research carried out by Petitta et al (2009) has shown that a sense of self-efficacy is a significant predictor of burnout.…”

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“…Research by Farnese et al (2017) has revealed how the presence of a mentor and socialization are crucial protective factors for correctional officers just assuming the role. Last, Viotti (2016) highlighted how the relationship with inmates represents a stressful factor that negatively affects the physical, cognitive, and, above all, emotional well-being of correctional officers. What’s more, correctional officer guilt and the perception of impotence due to the impossibility of helping inmates are seen as another source of stress.…”

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“…An analysis of international and national literature reveals that the methodological approach commonly used in burnout studies is mainly quantitative; only a few studies have used a mixed methods (Jurik, 1985; Keinan & Malach-Pines, 2007; Martin et al, 2012; Moon & Maxwell, 2004) or an exclusively qualitative (Viotti, 2016) approach. Moreover, in most of the research analyzed (Keinan & Malach-Pines, 2007; Lambert et al, 2010; Lambert, Hogan, Barton-Bellessa, et al, 2012a; Lambert, Hogan, Dial, et al, 2012b; Petitta et al, 2009), the participants were members of the prison staff, thus including several professionals as well as correctional officers.…”

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A Qualitative Study of Organizational and Psychosocial Factors in the Burnout of Italian Correctional Officers

2020

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Correctional officers (COs) are subject to the development of burnout syndrome. This investigation focuses on those factors that contribute to burnout syndrome in COs who work in Italian penitentiary institutions. Utilizing a qualitative methodology with 50 northern Italian COs, the study finds burnout to be caused by two types of factors, organizational and psychosocial. Notably, the results highlight feelings of anguish, sadness, and abandonment and CO requests for psychological help.

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A Qualitative Study of Organizational and Psychosocial Factors in the Burnout of Italian Correctional Officers

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“…This research also revealed that the PCO's perceived risk of HCV exposure contributed to their anxiety. Finney et al (2013) and Viotti (2016) found when examining prison officers' stressors that this staff group experience more anxiety than other workers and that health risk fears were an important contributory factor. Prison nurses have a crucial role in providing ongoing support to prison staff mitigate their worries and ensure that any potential exposure to a BBV from a needles-stick injury or while de-escalating a fight is dealt with promptly, accurately and sensitively.…”

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Prison officers’ views about hepatitis C testing and treatment: a qualitative enquiry

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Linsley

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Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…Municipal police officers share a variety of stressinducing factors with active police officers [13]. Such factors include shift working, long working hours, frequent conflicts and unpredictability at work [14,15].…”

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Stress at work: The case of municipal police officers

Cieślak

Kielan

Olejniczak

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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE:Occupational stress-related factors among working municipal police officers in Poland have not been examined in the literature. The purpose of the paper was to evaluate the impact of selected work-related factors on occupational stress in active municipal police officers in Warsaw by using configural frequency analysis (CFA). MATERIALS AND METHODS:A cross-sectional study was conducted among 578 participants, which accounted for 55.1% of all municipal police officers in Warsaw. The majority of study participants were men (72%) (mean age 43 years old). Two groups of workplace-related stress factors were analysed in the study: physical conditions and organisational working conditions causing stress. The study was carried out using the PAPI method (Paper-and-Pencil Interviewing), based on a proprietary questionnaire developed for the study. CFA searches for templates and patterns in contingency tables. RESULTS: Municipal police officers who claimed that stress did not affect health, took advantage of psychological/psychiatric advice less often than those who thought so (1.7% vs 10.1%; χ2 = 20.152, df = 2, P = 0.000). Those who declared that they often experienced stress at work were also more prone to claiming that one or two factors affected their level of stress: physical abuse, contact with infectious materials, working at uncomfortable temperatures or working in a noisy environment. In the opinion of the study population, there were some factors which contributed to the occurrence of stress at work, and these factors included: working in a hurry, lack of necessary resources, devices and materials at work, the need to be available at all times and the unpredictability of the work. The municipal police officers from the study population combined two or three methods to cope with stress, such as watching TV, surfing the Internet and talking with their families. CONCLUSION: Due to the specificity of a municipal police officer's occupation, special attention should be paid to the occupational stress risk factors characteristic for this group of professionals, and measures should be taken to reduce the number of stressors. It is important to organise training events devoted to effective methods of coping with stress. There is need to carry out more in-depth studies of occupational stress among municipal police officers.

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Work-related stress among correctional officers: A qualitative study

Abstract: Abstract.7 BACKGROUND: Correctional officers (COs) are exposed to various factors likely to jeopardize their health and safety. Even if numerous studies have been focused on work-related stress among COs, few studies have been carried out in Italy.

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A Qualitative Study of Organizational and Psychosocial Factors in the Burnout of Italian Correctional Officers

A Qualitative Study of Organizational and Psychosocial Factors in the Burnout of Italian Correctional Officers

Prison officers’ views about hepatitis C testing and treatment: a qualitative enquiry

Stress at work: The case of municipal police officers

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