Mental health and wellbeing of Australian police and emergency services employees.

IF 1.4 4区医学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2021-03-03 DOI:10.1080/19338244.2021.1893631

Michael J Kyron, Wavne Rikkers, Jennifer Bartlett, Emma Renehan, Katherine Hafekost, Michael Baigent, Rebecca Cunneen, David Lawrence

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Answering the Call, the Australian National Police and Emergency Services Mental Health and Wellbeing Study, surveyed 14,868 Australian ambulance, fire and rescue, police, and state emergency service employees. Emergency services personnel had lower rates of mental wellbeing and higher rates of psychological distress and probable PTSD than the general adult population. Overall 30% had low wellbeing, 21% had high and 9% had very high psychological distress, and 10% had probable PTSD. An estimated 5% had suicidal ideation and 2% had a suicide plan in the past 12 months, while 16% binge drink at least weekly. Only one in five of those with very high psychological distress or probable PTSD felt they received adequate support for their condition. These findings highlight the risk of mental health conditions associated with work in the emergency services sector.

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澳大利亚警察和紧急服务人员的心理健康和福祉。

“接听电话”是澳大利亚国家警察和紧急服务心理健康与福祉研究，调查了14,868名澳大利亚救护车、消防和救援、警察和国家紧急服务人员。与普通成年人相比，紧急服务人员的心理健康率较低，心理困扰和可能的创伤后应激障碍的发生率较高。总体而言，30%的人幸福感低，21%的人幸福感高，9%的人心理压力非常高，10%的人可能患有创伤后应激障碍。据估计，在过去的12个月里，5%的人有自杀念头，2%的人有自杀计划，而16%的人至少每周酗酒一次。只有五分之一的心理压力很高或可能患有创伤后应激障碍的人认为他们得到了足够的支持。这些调查结果强调了与紧急服务部门工作相关的精神健康状况风险。

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Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health 环境科学-公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生

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期刊介绍： Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health , originally founded in 1919 as the Journal of Industrial Hygiene, and perhaps most well-known as the Archives of Environmental Health, reports, integrates, and consolidates the latest research, both nationally and internationally, from fields germane to environmental health, including epidemiology, toxicology, exposure assessment, modeling and biostatistics, risk science and biochemistry. Publishing new research based on the most rigorous methods and discussion to put this work in perspective for public health, public policy, and sustainability, the Archives addresses such topics of current concern as health significance of chemical exposure, toxic waste, new and old energy technologies, industrial processes, and the environmental causation of disease such as neurotoxicity, birth defects, cancer, and chronic degenerative diseases. For more than 90 years, this noted journal has provided objective documentation of the effects of environmental agents on human and, in some cases, animal populations and information of practical importance on which decisions are based.