Occupational Risk Factors and the Mental Health of Women Firefighters

2020 ◽  
pp. 86-102
Author(s):  
Brittany Sara Hollerbach
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Fire Service ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Occupational Risk Factors ◽  
Protective Gear ◽  
Women Firefighters ◽  
Key Issues

Firefighting is an inherently dangerous occupation, yet little is known about the mental health of firefighters, and even less is known about women firefighters specifically. The purpose of this chapter is to examine relevant literature pertaining to firefighters and mental health with a specific focus on behavioral health aspects that may impact the mental health of women firefighters. There are key issues women in the fire service face that are likely related to their mental health including bullying and harassment, substance use, job satisfaction, fitness, protective gear, and injury. By identifying issues related to the mental health of women firefighters, the authors provide direction for future research and guidance for policy guidelines for the fire service.

Occupational Risk Factors and the Mental Health of Women Firefighters

2021 ◽  
pp. 1137-1153
Author(s):  
Brittany Sara Hollerbach
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Fire Service ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Occupational Risk Factors ◽  
Protective Gear ◽  
Women Firefighters ◽  
Key Issues

Firefighting is an inherently dangerous occupation, yet little is known about the mental health of firefighters, and even less is known about women firefighters specifically. The purpose of this chapter is to examine relevant literature pertaining to firefighters and mental health with a specific focus on behavioral health aspects that may impact the mental health of women firefighters. There are key issues women in the fire service face that are likely related to their mental health including bullying and harassment, substance use, job satisfaction, fitness, protective gear, and injury. By identifying issues related to the mental health of women firefighters, the authors provide direction for future research and guidance for policy guidelines for the fire service.

scholarly journals Going virtual: youth attitudes toward and experiences of virtual mental health and substance use services during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa D. Hawke ◽  
Natasha Y. Sheikhan ◽  
Karen MacCon ◽  
Joanna Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Youth Mental Health ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Clinical Samples ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Substance Use Services ◽  
Youth Attitudes ◽  
Virtual Services

Abstract Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, youth mental health and substance use services rapidly moved to virtual modalities to meet social distancing requirements. It is important to understand youth attitudes toward and experience of virtual services. Objective This study examined the attitudes toward and experiences of virtual mental health and substance use services among youth drawn from clinical and non-clinical samples. Method Four hundred nine youth completed a survey including questions about their attitudes toward and experience of virtual services. The survey included quantitative and open-ended questions on virtual care, as well as a mental health and substance use screener. Results The majority of youth with mental health or substance use challenges would be willing to consider individual virtual services, but fewer would consider group virtual services. However, many have not received virtual services. Youth are interested in accessing a wide variety of virtual services and other supportive wellness services. Advantages and disadvantages of virtual services are discussed, including accessibility benefits and technological barriers. Discussion As youth mental health and substance use services have rapidly gone virtual during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is essential that we hear the perspectives of youth to promote service utilization among those in need. Diverse, accessible, technologically stable virtual services are required to meet the needs of different youth, possibly with in-person options for some youth. Future research, engaging youth in the research process, is needed to evaluate the efficacy of virtual services to plan for the sustainability of some virtual service gains beyond the pandemic period.

Correlates of Youth Suicide Attempters in Australian Community and Clinical Samples

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory L. Carter ◽  
Cathy Issakidis ◽  
Kerrie Clover
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorder ◽  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Clinical Group ◽  
Health Related

Objective: This study (i) explores differences between a clinical sample of deliberate selfpoisoning (DSP) patients and a community sample who reported previous attempted suicide (AS); and (ii) examines correlates of suicidal behaviour in these groups compared with a community control group (CC) with no suicidal behaviour. Method: The study design was: case–case, case–control and cross-sectional population studies. A clinical sample of DSP (n = 51), a community sample of AS (n = 31) and a community sample with no suicidal behaviour (n = 842) were used, all aged 18–24 years. The DSP and AS groups were compared on several variables and two logistic regression models were developed for risk of (i) DSP and (ii) AS compared to community controls. Results: The adjusted odds ratios for DSP were: female gender (OR = 5.7, CI = 1.7–19.4), anxiety (OR = 7.4, CI = 2.2–25.1), affective (OR = 23.0, CI = 6.9–76.5), or substance-use disorder (OR = 19.2, CI = 5.6–65.4) and greater mental health related disability (OR = 0.5, CI = 0.3–0.7 for 1 SD decrease). For AS the results were: anxiety (OR = 9.4, CI = 1.7–52.8) or substance-use disorder (OR = 3.0, CI = 1.1–8.7) and greater mental health disability (OR = 0.5, CI = 0.4–0.7). Affective disorder was close to significant for the AS group (OR = 4.0, CI = 0.9–17.1). Conclusions: Correlates of DSP/AS were usually more powerful in the clinical group, but showed a similar pattern of psychiatric disorder and disability factors in both groups, supporting a continuum of risk factors across these groups. Interventions based on modifiable risk factors could target the same factors for public health, primary care or hospital populations: anxiety, depression and substance use disorders and mental health related disability.

Outcomes following non-life-threatening orthopaedic trauma: Why are they considered to be so poor?

Trauma ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-138
Author(s):  
Rachele Quested ◽  
Scott Sommerville ◽  
Michael Lutz
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Injury Severity ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
External Source ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Orthopaedic Trauma ◽  
Passive Coping ◽  
Physical Consequences

The purpose of this review article is to assess the current literature on the outcomes of simple orthopaedic trauma. Simple trauma is defined as the fracture or injury of one limb due to an acute event. Fractures are the most common cause of hospitalized trauma in Australia and associated with multiple social, psychological and physical consequences for patients. The literature to date suggests that there are multiple factors leading to relatively poor outcomes following simple trauma, modifiable and non-modifiable. The most oft cited are older age, lower educational status, being injured at work, injury severity score, pre-existing disease, workers compensation, litigation and pain at initial assessment. Additional psychological risk factors quoted attribute to the injury to an external source and the use of passive coping strategies. This review aims to summarise the relevant literature relating to these risk factors and give direction to improving outcomes and future research into this important area.

Intimate Partner Violence Among Persons With Mental Health-Related Disabilities in Canada

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052091258
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Brownridge ◽  
Tamara Taillieu ◽  
Marcelo L. Urquia ◽  
Alexandra Lysova ◽  
Ko Ling Chan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Elevated Risk ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Nationally Representative

This study examined the elevated risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) among persons with mental health-related disabilities (MH-RD) and the extent to which known risk factors accounted for this phenomenon. Data were drawn from a nationally representative sample of 33,127 Canadians collected in 2014 as part of Statistics Canada’s General Social Survey. Results showed that respondents with MH-RD had more than three-fold increased odds of both overall and severe IPV victimization. Although females were more likely to possess a MH-RD, males and females with MH-RD reported similarly elevated odds of IPV victimization. Risk factors that contributed to a significant reduction in elevated odds of IPV for respondents with MH-RD were child maltreatment (CM), respondents’ nonprescription drug abuse, and perpetrators’ jealous, monitoring, and socially isolating behaviors. The inability to test additional risk factors and bidirectionality in the relationship between MH-RD and IPV may have contributed to the failure to fully account for these respondents’ elevated odds of IPV. Future research is needed to understand the complex mechanisms contributing to the elevated risk of IPV and enhance prevention and intervention strategies for this underresearched and underserved vulnerable population.

Occupational Science and Community Mental Health: Using Occupational Risk Factors as a Framework for Exploring Chronicity

2000 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 211-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Fieldhouse
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Occupational Science ◽  
Occupational Risk Factors ◽  
Service Configuration ◽  
Adaptive Nature ◽  
Community Based Services

This article offers an overview of Wilcock's theories, from the field of occupational science, and relates them to the community care of people with severe mental health problems. Wilcock's occupational risk factors — imbalance, deprivation and alienation — are described and are seen to be reinforced both by the adaptive nature of this client group's problems and by the difficulties experienced by community-based services as they evolve to address the unfolding complexity of clients' needs. The potential for chronicity to be compounded and deepened in this way is highlighted, with particular reference to vocational and social disability, and the possible implications of a wider acknowledgement of occupational risk factors are discussed in relation to day-to-day practice and service configuration.

scholarly journals The Sentinel Research Network (SRN) of IeDEA. Standard Operating Procedures.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Jaquet ◽  
Kathy Anastos ◽  
Belinda Chihota ◽  
François Dabis ◽  
Mary-Ann Davies ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Screening Tests ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Monitoring Process ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Study Participants

The aim of the Sentinel Research Network (SRN) is to establish a network of research sites to capture and analyze data among PLHIV in LMICs in a standardized way. Through this network, we further seek to implement studies on cardiovascular risk factors, mental health, alcohol and other substance use disorders, as well as liver disease prevalence and associated factors among PLHIV accessing care in LMICs.To this end, in intend to create a “sentinel” cohort nested in the pre-existing regional networks of the International epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) cohorts based in LMICs. A total of six IeDEA research sites located in Brazil, Côte d’Ivoire, India, Kenya, Rwanda and Zambia are expected to recruit a total of 1 375 people with HIV ≥ 40 years and on ART ≥ 6 months. These participants will be assessed at baseline for various chronic conditions and their risk factors, including diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, drug and alcohol abuse, as well as chronic liver diseases, through standardized questionnaires and non-to-minimally invasive “bedside” screening tests. Follow-up visits are planned at month six and month twelve for reassessment of these chronic conditions. Data prospectively collected through the SRN will be merged with pre-existing HIV-related data routinely collected through IeDEA cohorts.The present manual intends to facilitate the implementation of SRN activities at site level. A first part includes information on the preparatory phase and selection of the study population. A second part includes the procedures for recruiting study participants. A third part contains detailed information on the SRN visits including questionnaires administration on alcohol and substance use, mental health disorders, participant’s interview, use of Fibroscan® and biological measures within the framework of the project. Furthermore, a tracing and monitoring process of SRN participants is also proposed in this manual.These procedures should be adapted by each SRN sites according to their specificities as long as they stay in line with the master SRN protocol.

Violent offending in schizophrenia spectrum disorders preceding and following diagnosis

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (8) ◽  
pp. 782-792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henning Hachtel ◽  
Cieran Harries ◽  
Stefan Luebbers ◽  
James RP Ogloff
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Violent Offending ◽  
Schizophrenia Spectrum ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Violent Victimisation ◽  
Violent Offences

Objective: People affected by schizophrenia spectrum disorders are at a higher risk of offending violently. This study aims to investigate risk factors in relation to the peri-diagnostic period and possible predictors of post-diagnostic violence of people diagnosed for the first time in the public mental health system. Methods: The study compared various risk factors for post-diagnostic violence in patients ( n = 1453) diagnosed with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder. Patients were grouped according to the occurrence of peri-diagnostic violence. Of the 246 violent offenders, 164 committed their first offence pre-diagnosis. Mental health and criminological variables were evaluated across the lifespan (median age at end of follow-up = 34.22 years, range = 17.02–55.80 years). Results: Gender, employment, non-violent offending, family incidents, violent and non-violent victimisation, substance use, personality disorder, number of in-patient admissions and history of non-compliance differed significantly across violent and non-violent subgroups (all p ⩽ 0.01 and at least small effect size). More frequent and longer inpatient admissions were found in the violent subgroups (all p ⩽ 0.01). For the whole sample, sex, number of violent offences, non-violent offences, violent victimisation, substance use and number of inpatient admissions predicted post-diagnostic violence (χ2 (6) = 188.13, p < 0.001). Among patients with a history of pre-diagnostic violence, a history of non-violent offending in the 18-month period pre-diagnosis was the strongest predictor of future violence (odds ratio = 3.08, 95% confidence interval [1.32, 7.21]). Conclusion: At triage, violence risk assessment should consider the presence of antisocial behaviour and violent victimisation, substance use, male gender and frequency of inpatient admissions. Common treatment targets for the prevention of post-diagnostic violence include criminality and victimisation. Treatment of positive symptoms should be of greater emphasis for individuals without a history of pre-diagnostic violence.

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