Prevalence and Risk Factors of Anxiety and Depression Among Policemen During the Health Crisis Linked to COVID-19 (Covid19-Police)

University Hospital, Strasbourg, France

Status: Completed

Conditions: COVID-19; Policemen; Depression Syndrome; Anxiety Syndrome

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06076876

8960

Details and patient eligibility

About

To date, there is little international data on depression and anxiety among police officers apart from studies carried out after an attack or natural disaster. At the national level, no mental health data exists for police officers, apart from those from the Paris attacks, and the work of investigators after the Strasbourg attack (article in press).

During the covid crisis, in Alsace, the police, like the rest of the population, took the full brunt of the pandemic. The police, however, are part of essential professions and have not been confined, but on the contrary, have remained in contact with the population, in particular to carry out traffic controls. Studies published to date show varying mental health outcomes for essential occupations during the pandemic.

The investigators hypothesize that the police officers had a feeling of being more exposed and that their mental health could be affected. For this it was decided to compare two populations of departments of similar size, but with different exposure to the pandemic: Bas Rhin and Hérault French departments

Enrollment: 600 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Any major agent in office in June 2020 of the national police of the Bas Rhin department, and Hérault
• Supported between June and September 2020
• Subject not opposing, after information, the reuse of their data for the purposes of this research

Exclusion criteria

• Subject having expressed his opposition to his data being reused for study purposes