Mental Disorder Symptoms among Public Safety Personnel in Canada
Date
2017-08-28
Authors
Carleton, R. Nicholas
Afifi, Tracie, O
Turner, Sarah
Taillieu, Tamara
Duranceau, Sophie
LeBouthillier, Daniel, M.
Sareen, Jitender
Ricciardelli, Rosemary
MacPhee, Renee
Groll, Dianne
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Journal ISSN
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Publisher
SAGE Publications
Abstract
Canadian public safety personnel (PSP; e.g., correctional workers, dispatchers, firefighters, paramedics, police officers) are exposed to potentially traumatic events as a function of their work. Such exposures contribute to the risk of developing clinically significant symptoms related to mental disorders. The current study was designed to provide estimates of mental disorder symptom frequencies and severities for Canadian PSP.
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© The Author(s) 2017. Published by SAGE. This article is distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-NC 4.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Keywords
mental disorders, first responders, public safety personnel, operational stress injuries, posttraumatic stress disorder
Citation
Carleton, R. N., Afifi, T. O., Turner, S., Taillieu, T., Duranceau, S., LeBouthillier, D. M., Sareen, J., Ricciardelli, R., MacPhee, R. S., Groll, D., Hozempa, K., Brunet, A., Weekes, J. R., Griffiths, C. T., Abrams, K. J., Jones, N. A., Beshai, S., Cramm, H. A., Dobson, K. S., Hatcher, S., Keane, T. M., Stewart, S. H., & Asmundson, G. J. G. (2018). Mental Disorder Symptoms Among Public Safety Personnel in Canada. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 63, 54-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/0706743717723825