Provincial Correctional Service Workers: The Prevalence of Mental Disorders

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dc.contributor.authorCarleton, R. Nicholas
dc.contributor.authorRicciardelli, Rosemary
dc.contributor.authorTaillieu, Tamara
dc.contributor.authorMitchell, Meghan, M.
dc.contributor.authorAndres, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorAfifi, Tracie, O.
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-03T21:22:14Z
dc.date.available2023-03-03T21:22:14Z
dc.date.issued2020-03-25
dc.description© 2020 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_US
dc.description.abstractCorrectional service employees in Ontario, Canada (n = 1487) began an online survey available from 2017 to 2018 designed to assess the prevalence and correlates of mental health challenges. Participants who provided data for the current study (n = 1032) included provincial staff working in institutional wellness (e.g., nurses) (n = 71), training (e.g., program officers) (n = 26), governance (e.g., superintendents) (n = 82), correctional officers (n = 553), administration (e.g., record keeping) (n = 25 ), and probation officers (n = 144, parole officers). Correctional officers, workers in institutional administration and governance positions, and probation officers reported elevated risk for mental disorders, most notably posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder. Among institutional correctional staff, 61.0% of governance employees, 59.0% of correctional officers, 43.7% of wellness staff, 50.0% of training staff, and 52.0% of administrative staff screened positive for one or more mental disorders. In addition, 63.2% of probation officers screened positive for one or more mental disorders. Women working as correctional officers were more likely to screen positive than men (p < 0.05). Across all correctional occupational categories positive screens for each disorder were: 30.7% for PTSD, 37.0% for major depressive disorder, 30.5% for generalized anxiety disorder, and 58.2% for one or more mental disorders. Participants between ages 40 and 49 years, working in institutional governance, as an institutional correctional officer, or as a probational officer, separated or divorced, were all factors associated (p < 0.05) with screening positive for one or more mental disorders. The prevalence of mental health challenges for provincial correctional workers appears to be higher than federal correctional workers in Canada and further supports the need for evidence-based mental health solutions.en_US
dc.description.authorstatusFacultyen_US
dc.description.peerreviewyesen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: R. Nicholas Carleton’s research is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through a New Investigator Award (FRN: 13666). Tracie O. Afifi’s research is supported by a CIHR New Investigator Award and Foundation Scheme Award. This research was also funded in part by a CIHR Catalyst Grant (FRN: 162545).en_US
dc.identifier.citationCarleton, R. N., Ricciardelli, R., Taillieu, T., Mitchell, M. M., Andres, E., & Afifi, T. O. (2020). Provincial Correctional Service Workers: The Prevalence of Mental Disorders. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 2203. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072203en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072203
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/15828
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Instituteen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectmental disordersen_US
dc.subjectPublic Safety Personnelen_US
dc.subjectcorrectional workersen_US
dc.subjectoperational stress injuriesen_US
dc.subjectposttraumatic stress disorderen_US
dc.titleProvincial Correctional Service Workers: The Prevalence of Mental Disordersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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