title: Risk factors for fatigue and stress among Korean police officers.
abstract: [Purpose] This study investigated factors that affect the health of police officers by analyzing job stress, psychosocial stress, and fatigue faced by police officers in order to provide basic data for the efficient management of police officers and future comparative research. [Subjects and Methods] Police officers admitted to the National Police Hospital from March to May 2013 were surveyed to investigate their degree of stress. The questionnaire consisted of 4 areas related to patient characteristics: general and demographic characteristics factors, job stress, psychosocial stress, and fatigue. [Results] The analysis of the relationships among job stress, psychosocial health, and fatigue showed the 0%, 44.7%, and 82% of those with healthy, potential, and high risks of stress had high job stress, respectively. Meanwhile, 40.8% and 77.9% of subjects with normal and high risks of fatigue had high job stress. [Conclusion] The studies can be used as basic and comparative data for the prevention and early control of job-related diseases for police officers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, National Police Hospital, Republic of Korea ; Department of Medical Science, Soonchunhyang University, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jong-Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Seok
authors.affiliation: Department of International Radiological Science, Hallym University of Graduate Studies, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jae-Hwan
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, National Police Hospital, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Woo-Jin
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Jeon
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical IT Engineering, Soonchunhyang University: Asan, Chungnam 336-745, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jae-Ouk
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Ahn
keywords: Fatigue