Self-resilience as a protective factor against development of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in police officers.
10.1186/s40557-016-0145-9
- Author:
Jong Ku LEE
1
;
Hyeon Gyeong CHOI
;
Jae Yeop KIM
;
Juhyun NAM
;
Hee Tae KANG
;
Sang Baek KOH
;
Sung Soo OH
Author Information
1. Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Wonju Severance Christian Hospital, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, 20 ilsan-ro, Wonju, Gangwon 220-701 South Korea. oss0609@yonsei.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Police officer;
Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms;
Job stress;
Resilience
- MeSH:
Cross-Sectional Studies;
Depression;
Gangwon-do;
Humans;
Logistic Models;
Male;
Police*;
Protective Factors*;
Psychology;
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic*;
Surveys and Questionnaires
- From:Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
2016;28(1):58-
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: 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. METHODS: 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. RESULTS: 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). CONCLUSIONS: Despite several limitations, these results suggest that a high degree of self-resilience may protect police officers from critical incident-related PTSD symptoms.
