Obstacles and Facilitators to the Treatment of Police Officers With Mental Health Disorders

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversity Hospital, Strasbourg, France

About this trial

Police officers are subject to various professional risk factors that can contribute to the occurrence of mental health difficulties such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. In previous work, low use of specialized care structures was noted. Added to this is the carrying of a weapon which represents an element facilitating the passage to self-aggressive action.

The objective of the study is to identify and describe the barriers and facilitators to the treatment of police officers facing mental health difficulties.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Be an active, administrative police officer, or scientific and technical police officer of the national police in France for more than a year,

Or work for the Ministry of the Interior as support staff, or medical staff,

Agree to participate in the study,

Agree to talk about the problem without managerial or union preconceptions.

Disqualifiers

Be in post for the Ministry of the Interior for less than a year.

Be stationed in the Bas Rhin department (France), where the principal investigator works.

Trial population

Active major subjet, administrative police officer, or scientific and technical police officer of the national police in France for more than a year, or work for the Ministry of the Interior as support staff, or medical staff,

Trial design

Design model

Case-only

Time perspective

Prospective

Treatments tested in this trial

Not listed

Trial groups

No trial groups listed

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

To identify and describe the barriers and facilitators to the treatment of police officers facing mental health difficulties.

* The analysis of the interviews with the police officers will be carried out using a method inspired by grounded theory; with first a deductive approach, then inductive; thirdly, links will be sought between the different categories of analysis to try to develop a synthetic representation of the barriers and facilitators to the treatment of police officers with mental health disorders. * Grounded theory research assumes that data, rather than existing theories or hypotheses, determine what knowledge is revealed. By systematically analyzing qualitative data, it seeks to understand the social phenomena studied.

Time frame
Up to 1 year

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

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