Poster Presentation
Thursday, 20 July 2006
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Thursday, 20 July 2006
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Psychosomatic Symptoms Among Different Ranks of Policemen in Taiwan
Ke-Hsin Chueh, MSN and Mei-Sang Yang, PhD. School of Nursing, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
| Learning Objective #1: understand what is the low rank policemen's psychosomatic symptoms and their related factors in Chinese culture. |
| Learning Objective #2: know how to cooperate the health systems with the police administration to increase the policemen's health in the future. |
OBJECTIVE: This study investigates the perceived psychosomatic symptoms among different ranks of policemen in a metropolitan city. METHOD: By using a stratified sample, a total of 698 municipal policemen in southern Taiwan were selected; and 527 (75.50%) completed the questionnaire. We used modified Occupational Stressor Indicator-2 (OSI-2) in the Chinese version to measure work stress and psychosomatic symptoms, and Personal Resource Questionnaire 85 (PRQ-85) part 2 to measure social support. RESULTS: Compared with high rank, low rank policemen were more likely to live with their parents, live without an intimate partner, work in police districts, and have more patrol duty. In addition, they are younger, have shorter length of police service, perceive higher level of family role stress, and have more frequent psychosomatic symptoms. The factors positively associated with more psychosomatic symptoms in low rank policemen were: living without intimate partner, less social support, and higher perceived work stress. On stepwise regression analysis, the important predictors of psychosomatic symptoms were social support and work stress. CONCLUSION: Different strategies are needed for different ranks of policemen to reduce their psychosomatic symptoms.
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