Policing is a stressful occupation, which impairs police officers’ physical/mental health and elicits burnout, aggressive behaviors and suicide. Resilience and coping facilitate the management of job stress policing, which can be operational or organizational. All these constructs are associated, and they must be assessed by instruments sensitive to policing idiosyncrasies. This study aims to identify operational and organizational stress, burnout, resilient coping and coping strategies among police officers, as well to analyze the psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of the Organizational Police Stress Questionnaire. A cross-sectional study, with online questionnaires, collected data of 1131 police officers. With principal components and confirmatory factor analysis, PSQ-org revealed adequate psychometric properties, despite the exclusion of four items, and revealed a structure with two factors (poor management and lack of resources, and responsibilities and burden). Considering cut-off points, 88.4% police officers presented high operational stress, 87.2% high organizational stress, 10.9% critical values for burnout and 53.8% low resilient coping, preferring task-orientated than emotion and avoidance coping. Some differences were found according to gender, age and job experience. Job stress and burnout correlated negatively with resilient coping, enthusiasm towards job and task-orientated coping. Results reinforce the importance to invest on police officers’ occupational health.

Purpose: This study aims to explore patterns of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel's mental health, regarding their levels of anxiety, depression, stress, COVID-19 anxiety, obsessive-compulsive symptoms and well-being; and to explore variables that contribute to these patterns, among sociodemographic/professional and COVID-19 experience variables.Design/methodology/approach: Participants were 214 EMS personnel, who answered the Patient-Health Questionnaire, Perceived Stress Scale, COVID-19 Anxiety Scale, Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory, Well-Being Questionnaire and COVID-19 related questions.Findings: EMS personnel showed an adequate psychological adjustment during COVID-19. Two clusters/patterns were found: the poorly (34%) and the well (66%) psychologically-adjusted. Personnel's age, COVID-19 fear and workplace security measures' adequacy contributed to which pattern they were more likely to belong to.Research limitations/implications: Despite being cross-sectional and not controlling for pre-COVID-19 data, this study adds to the COVID-19 literature. Findings call for the need to explore: other COVID-19 fears; how personnel perceive workplace security measures; COVID-19 valid instruments; pre-COVID-19 data; and mental health patterns with different rescuers.Practical implications: Findings explored EMS personnel's patterns of mental health during the COVID-19, as well as its covariates. Results allow to better prepare emergency management, which can develop prevention strategies focused on older professionals, COVID-19 related fears and how personnel assess security measures.Originality/value: This study contributes to the scarce literature focused on COVID-19 mental health patterns instead of focussing on isolated mental health variables, as well as what contributes to these patterns. Moreover, it is one of the few studies that focused on EMS personnel rather than hospital staff.

INTRODUÇÃO: As novas exigências profissionais e laborais na Enfermagem constituem fatores de risco para a saúde mental dos enfermeiros, cujas consequências individuais podem ser o burnout e a desmotivação no trabalho, bem como, a nível organizacional, a qualidade dos cuidados prestados. OBJETIVO: Conhecer os níveis de burnout e de engagement numa amostra de enfermeiros, a sua inter-relação e variação em função de características sociodemográficas/laborais. MÉTODOS: Estudo transversal, descritivo e correlacional, desenvolvido no âmbito do projeto INT-SO “Dos contextos de trabalho à saúde ocupacional dos profissionais de enfermagem”. Foram aplicadas versões portuguesas do Maslach Burnout Inventory e da Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, e um questionário de caracterização sociodemográfica/laboral a 346 enfermeiros do distrito do Porto, com participação anónima e voluntária. RESULTADOS: Encontraram-se níveis elevados de engagement, moderados de exaustão emocional e baixos de despersonalização, existindo 54% de enfermeiros com nível baixo de burnout, 36% com moderado e 9% com elevado. O burnout diminui com a idade e anos de serviço, surge associado a turnos rotativos, a trabalhar em hospitais, tem correlação negativa com o engagement e prediz mais fortemente o engagement (entre 19,6 e 39,6%) do que o inverso (entre 7,5 e 37,9%). CONCLUSÕES: A existência de 9% de enfermeiros em burnout confirma este grupo como em risco do adoecer psicológico. Os resultados apontam para a importância da saúde mental dos enfermeiros no contexto de trabalho, reforçando a prevenção do burnout e valorizando a saúde mental positiva expressa nas dimensões do engagement dedicação e vigor dos enfermeiros.

The purpose of this article is to present the development and validation of a Community Resilience Scale for Youth (CRS-Y) among a Portuguese sample of nearly 4000 young people growing up in regions on the border with Spain. The scale was developed for young people to assess their perception of the resilience of regional communities in terms of positive development and purposeful experiences for young people. Resilient communities, under a social ecological approach, are those able to move forward on social change and transformation. This concept is especially remarkable in more challenging contexts such as border regions of mainland Portugal which are characterised by economic, social, educational, and cultural disadvantages while discovering possibilities of resilience through promising local dynamics. A multi-step approach was used to develop this scale of 12-item scale. Items were generated based on an in-depth literature review and research previously conducted with young people in these contexts. The overall sample was randomly divided into two subsamples of 1828 and 1735 young people each. Principal component analysis was performed with one of the subsamples and yielded a three-factor structure, explaining 61.5% of the total variance. Confirmatory factor analysis performed on the second showed good fit indexes. Furthermore, internal consistency of the three proposed components, gauged either by Cronbach’s alpha or McDonald’s omega, indicated good reliability. Given the results, the CRS-Y is a valid and reliable tool showing adequate psychometric properties. This scale will be useful for schools and policy makers at the local level. Indicators such as the promotion of opportunities to participate and be recognised, collective trust and the promotion of shared values and protection are relevant in assessing regional communities’ resilience and informing youth policies.