@article{ref1,
title="On-duty nonfatal injury that lead to work absences among police officers and level of perceived stress",
journal="Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine",
year="2017",
author="West, Christine and Fekedulegn, Desta and Andrew, Michael and Burchfiel, Cecil M. and Harlow, Siobán and Bingham, C. Raymond and McCullagh, Marjorie and Park, Sung Kyun and Violanti, John",
volume="59",
number="11",
pages="1084-1088",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: We examined prevalence, frequency, duration, and recency of injury leave and the association of duty-related injury with perceived stress in U.S. police officers. <br><br>METHODS: This cross-sectional study contained 422 active duty police officers from a mid-sized urban police department. For each participating officer, work history records were used to assess on-duty injuries that lead to work absences. Linear regression analyses were used for analyses. <br><br>RESULTS: Most participants had experienced at least one injury (62%), and among those injured, 67% experienced more than one duty-related injury. The average number of injuries per officer was three (range 1 to 12). There was a significant linear trend in mean perceived stress across injury count even after adjusting for age, rank, and sex (P = 0.025). <br><br>CONCLUSION: Findings suggest that work-related injury is common and repeated work-related injuries are psychologically distressing in U.S. police officers.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1076-2752",
doi="10.1097/JOM.0000000000001137",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000001137"
}