Short communication: Assessment of subjective stress in the municipal police force at the start and at the end of the shift

Stress and Health

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 239-247

  Tomei, Gianfranco ^a   Cherubini, Emilia ^a   Ciarrocca, Manuela ^a   Biondi, Massimo ^a   Rosati, Maria Valeria ^a   Tarsitani, Lorenzo ^a   Capozzella, Assunta ^a   Monti, Carlo ^a   Tomei, Francesco ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Univerity of Rome La Sapienza ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Municipal police force; Occupational disease; Questionnaire; Stress; Work shift

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVORCE; EXHAUSTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; ITALY; JOB STRESS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OFFICE WORKER; POLICE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHIFT WORKER; SOMATIZATION; TRAFFIC; WORK SCHEDULE;

EID: 33750512925     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: 15322998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.1093     Document Type: Article

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