Mental health in public safety personnel with workplace injuries requiring surgery: a longitudinal population-wide administrative data study in Manitoba, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Public safety personnel (PSP) are responsible for ensuring the safety and security of communities, often putting their own lives and well-being at risk by performing dangerous and demanding work. As a result, these workers are particularly vulnerable to workplace-related physical and mental traumatic injuries. Research is needed to understand the mental health of PSP following traumatic physical injury to inform effective prevention programmes and interventions. The objective of this study was to investigate whether PSP with traumatic physical workplace injuries requiring surgery with anaesthetic have higher post-injury rates of mental disorders compared with the general population with similar non-workplace injuries.

Design

Retrospective longitudinal cohort study

SUBMITTER: Spiwak R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11808913 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature