Police officers: a high-risk group for the development of mental health disturbances? A cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Policing is generally considered a high-risk profession for the development of mental health problems, but this assumption lacks empirical evidence. Research question of the present study is to what extent mental health disturbances, such as (very) severe symptoms of anxiety, depression and hostility are more prevalent among police officers than among other occupational groups. Multicomparative cross-sectional study using the data of several cross-sectional and longitudinal studies in the Netherlands. Two samples of police officers (N=144 and 503), employees of banks (N=1113) and employees of banks who were robbed (N=144); employees of supermarkets (N=335), and a psychiatric hospital (N=219), employees of a governmental social welfare organisation (N=76), employees who followed a training

SUBMITTER: van der Velden PG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3563131 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature