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The chapter presents burnout aspects of the physical and mental health conditions of 1,845 civilian and military police officers who act within operational sectors in the State of Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. The research was carried out by the Latin American Center for Violence and Health Studies of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. The results demonstrate that specific professions, such as police officers, are vulnerable to developing burnout syndrome. Analysis has shown that 7.1 % of the civilians and 16.6 % of the military police officers present with professional distress (p < 0.001), including psychic suffering and low professional awareness. Considering only the psychological suffering, 18.2 % of the civilian and 39.8 % of the military police officers presented with this mental health problem. Those data indicate that the police officers are vulnerable to developing burnout syndrome.

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    For the Civil Police, data collection was made on different occasions: 2002 in the municipal district of Rio de Janeiro (Minayo and Souza 2003); Minayo et al. 2007 in the interior of the State (Souza et al. 2007), and in 2010 in part of the metropolitan region (Baixada Fluminense) (Souza and Constantino 2011). At the Military Police the data collection relating to the municipal district of Rio de Janeiro refers to the year 2006 (Minayo et al. 2008). In some locations a unit sampling (police stations) was performed, in others a survey of all existing police stations was elaborated upon. The data presented in this chapter may not extend to the whole State of Rio de Janeiro; they refer only to the locations investigated and to police officers with operational functions.

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    Patricia Constantino, Edinilsa Ramos de Souza, Simone Gonçalves de Assis & Bruna Soares Chaves Correia

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Constantino, P., de Souza, E.R., de Assis, S.G., Correia, B.S.C. (2013). Burnout Aspects of Physical and Mental Health Conditions. In: Bährer-Kohler, S. (eds) Burnout for Experts. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4391-9_6

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