Mental Health Risk Factors Related to COVID-19 among Canadian Public Safety Professionals

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dc.contributor.authorWagner, Shannon
dc.contributor.authorDi Nota, Paula
dc.contributor.authorGroll, Dianne
dc.contributor.authorLentz, Liana
dc.contributor.authorShields, Robyn, E.
dc.contributor.authorCarleton, R. Nicholas
dc.contributor.authorCramm, Heidi
dc.contributor.authorWei Lin, Becky
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Gregory, S.
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-10T19:20:36Z
dc.date.available2023-01-10T19:20:36Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-26
dc.description© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_US
dc.description.abstractPublic safety personnel (PSP) are known to experience difficult and demanding occupational environments, an environment that has been complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Firefighters, paramedics, and public safety communicators were among the front-line workers that continued to serve the public throughout the course of the pandemic. The present study considered the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-reported symptoms of mental health challenges in Canadian firefighters, paramedics, and public safety communicators. Participants were firefighters (n = 123), paramedics (n = 246), and public safety communicators (n = 48), who completed an online survey, including demographics, questions related to COVID-19 exposure and worry, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, the Social Interaction Phobia Scale, and the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-5. Results revealed that risk factors for increased mental health symptom reporting were paramedic occupation, self-identified female, younger in age, COVID-19 personal contact, requirement to self-isolate, and self-perception of COVID-19 contraction (without confirmation through testing). The COVID-19 pandemic should be considered a risk factor for increased mental health symptom reporting in PSP.en_US
dc.description.authorstatusFacultyen_US
dc.description.peerreviewyesen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was partially funded by Anderson’s CIHR Mental Wellness in Public Safety Team Grant (MWP: 172806) and WorkSafe British Columbia grant (RS2019-SP13).en_US
dc.identifier.citationWagner, S., Di Nota, P. M., Groll, D., Lentz, L., Shields, R., Carleton, R. N., Cramm, H., Wei Lin, B., Anderson, G. S. (2023). Mental Health Risk Factors Related to COVID-19 Among Public Safety Professionals. Psychiatry International, 4, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3390/psychiatryint4010001en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/psychiatryint4010001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/15569
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Instituteen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectfirefightersen_US
dc.subjectparamedicsen_US
dc.subjectpublic safety communicatorsen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectmental healthen_US
dc.titleMental Health Risk Factors Related to COVID-19 among Canadian Public Safety Professionalsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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