Trompeter, N, Fear, NT, Greenberg, N, Hotopf, M, Irizar, P, Wessely, S and Stevelink, SAM (2023) Primary Care Consultations Among UK Police Officers and Staff: Links With Adverse Mental Health and Job Strain. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 65 (6). pp. 502-509. ISSN 1076-2752

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Abstract

Objective The current study examined links between adverse mental health, job strain, and likelihood and frequency of primary care consultations among police employees. Methods We conducted secondary data analysis on the Airwave Health Monitoring Study data (n = 33,730). Measures included self-report data on mental health, job strain, job support, and primary care consultations in the past 12 months. Data were analyzed using a zero-inflated Poisson regression framework. Results Findings showed that overall, help seeking was low based on mental health status and job strain. Adverse mental health was associated with more primary care consultations. Police employees with high, active, or passive job strain reported more primary care consultation compared with police employees with low strain. Conclusions Findings suggest that more work to reduce stigma of taking the initial step of help seeking would be beneficial.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Humans; Mental Health; Police; Referral and Consultation; Primary Health Care; United Kingdom; Humans; Mental Health; Police; Referral and Consultation; Primary Health Care; United Kingdom; 4203 Health Services and Systems; 42 Health Sciences; Clinical Research; Mental Health; Behavioral and Social Science; 8.1 Organisation and delivery of services; 7.1 Individual care needs; 3 Good Health and Well Being; Humans; Mental Health; Police; Referral and Consultation; Primary Health Care; United Kingdom; 1110 Nursing; 1117 Public Health and Health Services; Environmental & Occupational Health; 3505 Human resources and industrial relations; 4202 Epidemiology; 4206 Public health
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions:	Psychology (from Sep 2019)
Publisher:	Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	18 Feb 2025 16:41
Last Modified:	18 Feb 2025 16:41
DOI or ID number:	10.1097/JOM.0000000000002819
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25665

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