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Impact of Psychoeducation on Professional Stress Reduction Among Prison Guards

CONFLICT OF INTEREST: NONE DECLARED INTRODUCTION: Through psychological support for prison guard’s awareness about professional stress and burn-out, cognitive assessment of stress consequences, insight in coping strategies, as well as prevention of stress consequences is achieved. AIM: Evaluation of...

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Autores principales: Bravo-Mehmedbasic, Alma, Salcic, Dubravka, Kucukalic, Abdulah, Fadilpasic, S., Cakovic, L., Mehmedika-Suljic, Enra, Masic, Izet
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3796779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24133378
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2009.21.24-26
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author Bravo-Mehmedbasic, Alma
Salcic, Dubravka
Kucukalic, Abdulah
Fadilpasic, S.
Cakovic, L.
Mehmedika-Suljic, Enra
Masic, Izet
author_facet Bravo-Mehmedbasic, Alma
Salcic, Dubravka
Kucukalic, Abdulah
Fadilpasic, S.
Cakovic, L.
Mehmedika-Suljic, Enra
Masic, Izet
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description CONFLICT OF INTEREST: NONE DECLARED INTRODUCTION: Through psychological support for prison guard’s awareness about professional stress and burn-out, cognitive assessment of stress consequences, insight in coping strategies, as well as prevention of stress consequences is achieved. AIM: Evaluation of psychoeducation effects on professional stress consequences within prison guards. METHOD: In the research were included 122 prison guards from three prisons in Bosnia and Herzegovina. All of them have been tested before and after psychoeducation was finished using following instruments: Index of reaction, STAI questionnaire, SAMAČA questionnaire. RESULTS: Differences between first and second measuring of subjects included in this study in Sarajevo prison indicated statistically significant reduction of stress reactions, improvement of coping strategies and communication skills. In prisons Zenica and Kula there are differences between first and second measurement in stress reactions reduction, improvement of coping strategies and overcoming of stress and improvement of communication skills as well, which are not statistically significant. In Kula prison, significant differences between two measurements in attitudes of prison guards toward detainees were observed. CONCLUSIONS: Results of this study show that prison guards within prisons where are detained persons with long period of imprisonment are more exposed to professional stress, comparing to prison guards who are employed in investigation prison. Psychoeducation resulted in positive effects and it should be obligatory included in prison guards training with the aim of decreasing of psychological consequences of prolonged professional stress to which they are exposed to. Psychoeducation should be on continuous basis and led by educated mental health professionals.
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spelling pubmed-37967792013-10-16 Impact of Psychoeducation on Professional Stress Reduction Among Prison Guards Bravo-Mehmedbasic, Alma Salcic, Dubravka Kucukalic, Abdulah Fadilpasic, S. Cakovic, L. Mehmedika-Suljic, Enra Masic, Izet Mater Sociomed Original Paper CONFLICT OF INTEREST: NONE DECLARED INTRODUCTION: Through psychological support for prison guard’s awareness about professional stress and burn-out, cognitive assessment of stress consequences, insight in coping strategies, as well as prevention of stress consequences is achieved. AIM: Evaluation of psychoeducation effects on professional stress consequences within prison guards. METHOD: In the research were included 122 prison guards from three prisons in Bosnia and Herzegovina. All of them have been tested before and after psychoeducation was finished using following instruments: Index of reaction, STAI questionnaire, SAMAČA questionnaire. RESULTS: Differences between first and second measuring of subjects included in this study in Sarajevo prison indicated statistically significant reduction of stress reactions, improvement of coping strategies and communication skills. In prisons Zenica and Kula there are differences between first and second measurement in stress reactions reduction, improvement of coping strategies and overcoming of stress and improvement of communication skills as well, which are not statistically significant. In Kula prison, significant differences between two measurements in attitudes of prison guards toward detainees were observed. CONCLUSIONS: Results of this study show that prison guards within prisons where are detained persons with long period of imprisonment are more exposed to professional stress, comparing to prison guards who are employed in investigation prison. Psychoeducation resulted in positive effects and it should be obligatory included in prison guards training with the aim of decreasing of psychological consequences of prolonged professional stress to which they are exposed to. Psychoeducation should be on continuous basis and led by educated mental health professionals. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC3796779/ /pubmed/24133378 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2009.21.24-26 Text en © 2009 AVICENA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cakovic, L.
Mehmedika-Suljic, Enra
Masic, Izet
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2009.21.24-26
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