Table 4.
Association between the child’s emotions and/or behaviours and parent’s work as public safety personnel and prevalence of mental health disorder diagnosis among children of public safety personnel.
| Total | Correctional Workers | Public Safety Communicators (e.g., Call Center Operators/Dispatchers) | Firefighters | Paramedics | Municipal/ Provincial Police |
RCMP | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % (n) |
% (n) |
AOR (95% CI) | % (n) | AOR (95% CI) |
% (n) |
AOR (95% CI) |
% (n) |
AOR (95% CI) |
% (n) |
AOR (95% CI) |
% (n) |
AOR (95% CI) |
|
| Do you think your child’s emotional and/or behavioural problems are related to your work or the consequences of your work? | |||||||||||||
| Yes/ At least in part |
39.4 (1361) | 40.6 (173) | 1 | 31.9 (38) | 0.70 (0.46,1.08) a | 35.1 (183) | 0.80 (0.61,1.04) a | 40.5 (157) | 1.02 (0.77,1.35) a | 33.5 (358) | 0.75 * (0.59,0.95) b | 48.6 (452) | 1.42 ** (1.12,1.79) c |
| No | 60.6 (2094) | 59.4 (253) | 68.1 (81) | 64.9 (339) | 59.5 (231) | 66.5 (712) | 51.4 (478) | ||||||
| Have any of your children ever been diagnosed with a mental disorder? | |||||||||||||
| Yes | 13.0 (444) | 14.9 (62) | 1 | 16.4 (19) | 1.28 (0.72,2.27) a,b | 11.2 (57) | 0.75 (0.51,1.12) a | 16.9 (65) | 1.43 (0.96,2.11) b | 12.0 (128) | 0.90 (0.65,1.26) a | 12.2 (113) | 0.94 (0.66,1.32) a |
| No | 87.0 (2970) | 85.1 (354) | 83.6 (97) | 88.8 (453) | 83.1 (320) | 88.0 (935) | 87.8 (811) | ||||||
Note: AOR: Adjusted Odds Ratio for Children’s age; Different lettered superscripts indicate categories of public safety officers that are significantly different from one another at p ≤ 0.05 (e.g., groups with a are statistically significantly different from groups with b or c). * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01—Statistically significant.