Help‐Seeking in the Norwegian Police Service

Berg, Anne Marie; Hem, Erlend; Lau, Bjørn; Ekeberg, Øivind

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“…The present paper is part of the first comprehensive, nationwide, cross-sectional study to attempt to gather knowledge about some of these issues in the police service. Three previous articles on the basis of the present cohort have been published so far [16-18], but there is no overlap between the data presented in this paper and the previous published articles.…”

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“…Data were collected by means of overlapping questionnaires. Out of 16 different questionnaires, each physician received one primary questionnaire (response rate 71.8%, N = 6,652) and three randomly selected secondary ones [18]. In the present study, comparisons are made on subjective health complaints from the primary questionnaire, whereas personality traits (response 896 physicians, 72.9%) and burnout (response 1,082 physicians, 73.3%) were from the additional questionnaires.…”

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BackgroundPolice work is regarded as a high-stress occupation, but so far, no nationwide study has explored the associations between work stress and health.AimsTo explore physical and mental health among Norwegian police and associations to job stress. Comparisons were made with a nationwide sample of Norwegian physicians and the general Norwegian population.MethodsComprehensive nationwide questionnaire survey of 3,272 Norwegian police at all hierarchical levels, including the Norwegian Police Stress Survey with two factors (serious operational tasks and work injuries), the Job Stress Survey with two factors (job pressure and lack of support), the Basic Character Inventory, the Subjective Health Complaint questionnaire, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, and Paykel's Suicidal Feelings in the General Population.ResultsThe frequency of job pressure and lack of support was mainly associated to physical and mental health problems. Females showed higher means on anxiety symptoms than males (4.2, SD 2.9 and 3.7, SD 2.9, respectively; p < 0.01), while males showed higher means on depressive symptoms (3.1, SD 2.9 and 2.4, SD 2.5, respectively; p < 0.001). Police reported more subjective health complaints, depersonalization and higher scores on three of four personality traits than physicians, but lower scores on anxiety and depressive symptoms than the general population.ConclusionThis is the first nationwide study to explore job stress and physical and mental health in police. The results indicate that Norwegian police have high levels of musculoskeletal health problems mainly associated to the frequency of job pressure and lack of support. However, also frequent exposure to work injuries was associated to health problems. This may indicate that daily routine work as well as police operational duties must be taken into consideration in assessing job stress and police health.

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“…Attitudes may prevent employees from seeking help for these problems from OHS. In a study of the Norwegian Police Force, GPs were contacted more than OH practitioners, and this was assumed to be due to availability, mistrust, and concern about anonymity [8]. However in Finland, patient satisfaction with OH physician services has been good and contacting OH physicians is more common than contacting GPs [5,23].…”

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“…Dutch studies have shown that health problems and physical work demands are associated with visiting OH physicians, and that fatigue-related visits to OH physicians are more common than those to general practitioners (GP) [6,7]. In a Norwegian study, subjective health complaints and sick leave during the previous year were associated with contacting OH practitioners [8]. In addition, mental and musculoskeletal diseases are most often regarded as being possibly related to work by employees visiting OH physicians [9].…”

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Primary care visits to occupational health physicians and nurses in Finland

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“…Wilson et al 28) developed and evaluated a general model of information-seeking behavior, based particularly on the stress-coping theory 29) and the riskreward theory 30) . This frequently cited model includes numerous factors that can motivate or hinder the information search, including cognitions, beliefs, attitudes, emotions, the social environment, self-efficacy and such background characteristics as gender, age and educational level [31][32][33][34][35] .…”

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Can Workers Answer Their Questions about Occupational Safety and Health: Challenges and Solutions

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Many workers have questions about occupational safety and health (OSH). Answers to these questions empower them to further improve their knowledge about OSH, make good decisions about OSH matters and improve OSH practice when necessary. Nevertheless, many workers fail to find the answers to their questions. This paper explores the challenges workers may face when seeking answers to their OSH questions. Findings suggest that many workers may lack the skills, experience or motivation to formulate an answerable question, seek and find information, appraise information, compose correct answers and apply information in OSH practice. Simultaneously, OSH knowledge infrastructures often insufficiently support workers in answering their OSH questions. This paper discusses several potentially attractive strategies for developing and improving OSH knowledge infrastructures: 1) providing courses that teach workers to ask answerable questions and to train them to find, appraise and apply information, 2) developing information and communication technology tools or facilities that support workers as they complete one or more stages in the process from question to answer and 3) tailoring information and implementation strategies to the workers' needs and context to ensure that the information can be applied to OSH practice more easily.

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