Routine work environment stress and PTSD symptoms in police officers

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 197, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 754-760

  Maguen, Shira ^a,b   Metzler, Thomas J ^a,b   McCaslin, Shannon E ^a,b   Inslicht, Sabra S ^a,b   Henn Haase, Clare ^a,b   Neylan, Thomas C ^a,b   Marmar, Charles R ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Police officers; Traumatic stress; Work environment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INJURY; JOB STRESS; LIFE EVENT; MALE; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; TRAINING; WORK ENVIRONMENT; HISTORY; HOSPITALIZATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PERSONALITY TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POLICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 70350482793     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181b975f8     Document Type: Article

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