seyed javad keshavarz

The health of police staff plays a key role in increasing their productivity to ensure the security of society. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the general health status of police and identify some of the factors affecting it.

This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2018 on 354 personnel of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad (Iran) police command who were selected by stratified random sampling. Data were collected using a standard public health questionnaire.

The mean score of general health in the components of physical disorders, anxiety, social disorders and depression were 5.96±0.26, 6.16±0.28, 7.22±0.18 and 3.50±0.29, respectively. In these components, 61%, 53.4%, 45.5% and 79.7% of police were in the healthy category, respectively. There was also a statistically significant difference between the variables of gender, work experience, education degree and age with general health and related components, while there was no significant difference between the total general health score and monthly income, service categories and organizational rank.

Given that police personnel’s health are at risk for the nature of their profession and this affects the quality of their work, it seems that in order to be more productive, plans should be made to improve their health.