‘White’, 2.1% described it as ‘Asian’, 1.1% described it as ‘Black’, 1.5% described it as ‘Chinese or other’, and 1.7% did not state their ethnicity. Although there are a greater number of females in the current study rather than males, there are nearly three times as many males as there are females ‘available for duty’ in England and Wales. This would indicate that in terms of gender the current sample is not representative. The ethnicity of the participants in the current study is roughly similar to that of the overall police forces in England and Wales, where officers describing themselves as having a ‘White’ ethnicity is the overwhelmingly most frequent response. It should be noted that the police force with the overall most ethnic diversity in England and Wales did not participate in this study, however the second most ethnically diverse police force did participate. This could account for the small discrepancies in the ethnic diversity of the current study compared with the overall police force of England and Wales. The geographical locations of the 12 police forces that participated in the current were spread across England and Wales. They included forces in rural areas as well as large urban areas and cities. This should have given a representative sample of the Child Protection Police Officers in England and Wales although it is not possible to confirm this. Comparison with participants that dropped out. basic demographic data was available, statistical analysis was conducted to compare those participants that completed the study (n=101) with those that dropped out of the study (n=26). 19 participants did not complete the basic demographic information so were not available for comparison. Chi-Squared tests for independence indicated there was no difference in gender, age, ethnicity, working full-time or part-time, time in the police force, or time in the CAIU between those participants that completed the study and those that dropped out (Appendix J).
According to Snaith and Philip (2003) any score of 11 or above on the HADS for either the anxiety or depression subscale should be considered ‘caseness’ when using the HADS as a screening tool. Table 4 indicates that for the current study 11.9% of the participants would meet this criterion for anxiety and 5.9% would meet ‘caseness’ for depression. Exposure Variables Table 5 – Spearman rho correlations between exposure variables and STSS Total STSS Score p value Time in CAIU -.00 .975 Total number interviews last 6 months .24* .015 *correlation is significant at 0.05 level (2-tailed) Table 5 indicates that a relationship was found between number of interviews conducted in the last six months and total STSS score. The small, positive correlation suggests that the more interviews conducted within the past six months, the greater the level of STS. No relationship was found between amount of time in CAIU and levels of STS. Categorical Variables Table 6 – Point-biserial correlations between dichotomous demographic variables and STSS Total STSS Score p value Gender (males relative to females) .11 .258 Full time or part time (full time relative to part time) -.09 .380 Loss in last 12 months (no loss relative to loss) -.13 .217 Abuse as a child (no abusive relative to abuse) -.09 .406 (2-tailed)
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