March 8, 2021Open Access

Mental health screening amongst police officers: factors associated with under-reporting of symptoms

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Employer-administered mental health screening is not able to accurately capture all mental health symptoms amongst first responders. The fact that the severity of symptoms predicted the level of under-reporting means that simple changes to cut-off values cannot correct this problem.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69d8e75fa5ecc596b5d18b49 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03125-1

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