1,266
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Basic Research Article

Is perceived safety and threat after workplace terrorism linked to employee sick-leave? A registry-based longitudinal study of governmental employees in Norway

¿Está la seguridad y la amenaza percibida después de terrorismo en el lugar de trabajo vinculado al permiso de ausencia por enfermedad? Un estudio longitudinal basado en registros de empleados gubernamentales en Noruega

工作场所恐怖袭击后的感知安全和威胁是否与员工病假相关?使用登记记录对挪威政府雇员的纵向研究

ORCID Icon, , , &
Article: 1785249 | Received 20 Mar 2020, Accepted 05 May 2020, Published online: 11 Aug 2020

References

  • American Psychiatric Association . (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
  • Barling, J. , Rogers, A. G. , & Kelloway, E. K. (2001). Behind closed doors: In-home workers’ experience of sexual harassment and workplace violence. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology , 6(3), 255–12.
  • Blanchard, E. B. , Jones-Alexander, J. , Buckley, T. C. , & Forneris, C. A. (1996). Psychometric properties of the PTSD checklist (PCL). Behaviour Research and Therapy , 34(8), 669–673.
  • Boscarino, J. A. , Adams, R. E. , Figley, C. R. , Galea, S. , & Foa, E. B. (2006). Fear of terrorism and preparedness in New York City 2 years after the attacks: Implications for disaster planning and research. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice: JPHMP , 12(6), 505.
  • Cox, S. J. , & Cheyne, A. (2000). Assessing safety culture in offshore environments. Safety Science , 34(1), 111–129.
  • Ehlers, A. , & Clark, D. M. (2000). A cognitive model of posttraumatic stress disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy , 38(4), 319–345. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10761279 10.1016/S0005-7967(99)00123-0
  • Farewell, V. T. , Long, D. L. , Tom, B. D. M. , Yiu, S. , & Su, L. (2017). Two-part and related regression models for longitudinal data. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application , 4, 283–315.
  • Finseraas, H. , & Listhaug, O. (2013). It can happen here: The impact of the Mumbai terror attacks on public opinion in Western Europe. Public Choice , 156(1), 213–228.
  • Fullerton, C. S. , Herberman Mash, H. B. , Benevides, K. N. , Morganstein, J. C. , & Ursano, R. J. (2015). Distress of routine activities and perceived safety associated with post-traumatic stress, depression, and alcohol use: 2002 Washington, DC, sniper attacks. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , 9(5), 509–515.
  • Grieger, T. A. , Fullerton, C. S. , & Ursano, R. J. (2003a). Posttraumatic stress disorder, alcohol use, and perceived safety after the terrorist attack on the pentagon. Psychiatric Services , 54(10), 1380–1382.
  • Grieger, T. A. , Fullerton, C. S. , Ursano, R. J. , & Reeves, J. J. (2003b). Acute stress disorder, alcohol use, and perception of safety among hospital staff after the sniper attacks. Psychiatric Services , 54(10), 1383–1387.
  • Hansen, M. , & Elklit, A. (2011). Predictors of acute stress disorder in response to bank robbery. European Journal of Psychotraumatology , 2(1), 5864.
  • Hansen, M. B. , Berthelsen, M. , Nissen, A. , & Heir, T. (2019). Sick leave before and after a work-place targeted terror attack. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health , 92(3), 327–335.
  • Hem, C. , Hussain, A. , Wentzel-Larsen, T. , & Heir, T. (2012). The Norwegian version of the PTSD Checklist (PCL): Construct validity in a community sample of 2004 tsunami survivors. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry , 66(5), 355–359.
  • Holman, E. A. , Garfin, D. R. , Lubens, P. , & Silver, R. C. (2019). Media exposure to collective trauma, mental health, and functioning: Does it matter what you see? Clinical Psychological Science , 2167702619858300. doi:10.1177/2167702619858300
  • Holman, E. A. , Silver, R. C. , Poulin, M. , Andersen, J. , Gil-Rivas, V. , & McIntosh, D. N. (2008). Terrorism, acute stress, and cardiovascular health: A 3-year national study following the September 11th attacks. Archives of General Psychiatry , 65(1), 73–80.
  • Howie, L. (2007). The terrorism threat and managing workplaces. Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal , 16(1), 70–78.
  • Kivimäki, M. , Head, J. , Ferrie, J. E. , Shipley, M. J. , Vahtera, J. , & Marmot, M. G. (2003). Sickness absence as a global measure of health: Evidence from mortality in the Whitehall II prospective cohort study. BMJ , 327(7411), 364.
  • Lanctôt, N. , & Guay, S. (2014). The aftermath of workplace violence among healthcare workers: A systematic literature review of the consequences. Aggression and Violent Behavior , 19(5), 492–501.
  • Mainiero, L. A. , & Gibson, D. E. (2003). Managing employee trauma: Dealing with the emotional fallout from 9-11. Academy of Management Perspectives , 17(3), 130–143.
  • Mänty, M. , Lallukka, T. , Lahti, J. , Pietiläinen, O. , Laaksonen, M. , Lahelma, E. , & Rahkonen, O. (2017). Physical and mental health functioning after all-cause and diagnosis-specific sickness absence: A register-linkage follow-up study among ageing employees. BMC Public Health , 17(1), 114.
  • Marmot, M. , Feeney, A. , Shipley, M. , North, F. , & Syme, S. L. (1995). Sickness absence as a measure of health status and functioning: From the UK Whitehall II study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health , 49(2), 124–130.
  • Marshall, R. D. , Bryant, R. A. , Amsel, L. , Suh, E. J. , Cook, J. M. , & Neria, Y. (2007). The psychology of ongoing threat: Relative risk appraisal, the September 11 attacks, and terrorism-related fears. The American Psychologist , 62(4), 304–316.
  • Maslow, A. H. (1943). A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review , 50(4), 370.
  • McDonald, S. D. , & Calhoun, P. S. (2010). The diagnostic accuracy of the PTSD checklist: A critical review. Clinical Psychology Review , 30(8), 976–987.
  • Melamed, S. , Shirom, A. , Toker, S. , Berliner, S. , & Shapira, I. (2004). Association of fear of terror with low-grade inflammation among apparently healthy employed adults. Psychosomatic Medicine , 66(4), 484–491.
  • Nissen, A. , Birkeland Nielsen, M. , Solberg, Ø. , Bang Hansen, M. , & Heir, T. (2015). Perception of threat and safety at work among employees in the Norwegian ministries after the 2011 Oslo bombing. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping , 28(6), 650–662.
  • Nissen, A. , Hansen, M. B. , Nielsen, M. B. , Knardahl, S. , & Heir, T. (2019). Employee safety perception following workplace terrorism: A longitudinal study. European Journal of Psychotraumatology , 10(1), 1478584.
  • Nissen, A. , & Heir, T. (2016). Perceived safety at work in the wake of terror: The importance of security measures and emergency preparedness. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , 10(6), 805–811.
  • North, C. S. , Barney, C. J. , & Pollio, D. E. (2015). A focus group study of the impact of trauma exposure in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology , 50(4), 569–578.
  • North, C. S. , & Pfefferbaum, B. (2002). Research on the mental health effects of terrorism [Review of research on the mental health effects of terrorism]. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association , 288(5), 633–636.
  • North, C. S. , Pfefferbaum, B. , Hong, B. A. , Gordon, M. R. , Kim, Y. S. , Lind, L. , & Pollio, D. E. (2010). The business of healing: Focus group discussions of readjustment to the Post-9/11 work environment among employees of affected agencies. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine/American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine , 52(7), 713–718.
  • North, C. S. , Pollio, D. E. , Smith, R. P. , King, R. V. , Pandya, A. , Surís, A. M. , … Pfefferbaum, B. (2011). Trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder among employees of New York City companies affected by the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , 5(Suppl 2), S205–S213.
  • Paz García-Vera, M. , Sanz, J. , & Gutiérrez, S. (2016). A systematic review of the literature on posttraumatic stress disorder in victims of terrorist attacks. Psychological Reports , 119(1), 328–359.
  • Pinheiro, J. C. , & Bates, D. M. (1995). Approximations to the log-likelihood function in the nonlinear mixed-effects model. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics: A Joint Publication of American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Interface Foundation of North America , 4(1), 12–35.
  • Rai, D. , Skapinakis, P. , Wiles, N. , Lewis, G. , & Araya, R. (2010). Common mental disorders, subthreshold symptoms and disability: Longitudinal study. The British Journal of Psychiatry: The Journal of Mental Science , 197(5), 411–412.
  • Rizopoulos, D. (2019, January 29). Zero-inflated and two-part mixed effects models. Retrieved from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/GLMMadaptive/vignettes/ZeroInflated_and_TwoPart_Models.html
  • Rogers, K. A. , & Kelloway, E. K. (1997). Violence at work: Personal and organizational outcomes. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology , 2(1), 63–71.
  • Rubin, G. J. , Brewin, C. R. , Greenberg, N. , Hughes, J. H. , Simpson, J. , & Wessely, S. (2007). Enduring consequences of terrorism: 7-month follow-up survey of reactions to the bombings in London on 7 July 2005. The British Journal of Psychiatry: The Journal of Mental Science , 190(4), 350–356.
  • Rubin, G. J. , Brewin, C. R. , Greenberg, N. , Simpson, J. , & Wessely, S. (2005). Psychological and behavioural reactions to the bombings in London on 7 July 2005: Cross sectional survey of a representative sample of Londoners. BMJ , 331(7517), 606.
  • Schouten, R. , Callahan, M. V. , & Bryant, S. (2004). Community response to disaster: The role of the workplace. Harvard Review of Psychiatry , 12(4), 229–237.
  • Schuster, M. A. , Stein, B. D. , Jaycox, L. H. , Collins, R. L. , Marshall, G. N. , Elliott, M. N. , … Berry, S. H. (2001). A national survey of stress reactions after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The New England Journal of Medicine , 345(20), 1507–1512.
  • Shiao, J. S.-C. , Tseng, Y. , Hsieh, Y.-T. , Hou, J.-Y. , Cheng, Y. , & Guo, Y. L. (2010). Assaults against nurses of general and psychiatric hospitals in Taiwan. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health , 83(7), 823–832.
  • Silver, R. C. , Holman, E. A. , McIntosh, D. N. , Poulin, M. , & Gil-Rivas, V. (2002). Nationwide longitudinal study of psychological responses to September 11. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association , 288(10), 1235–1244.
  • Stansfeld, S. A. , Fuhrer, R. , & Head, J. (2011). Impact of common mental disorders on sickness absence in an occupational cohort study. Occupational and Environmental Medicine , 68(6), 408–413.
  • Vahtera, J. , Pentti, J. , & Kivimäki, M. (2004). Sickness absence as a predictor of mortality among male and female employees. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health , 58(4), 321–326.
  • Weathers, F. , Litz, B. T. , Herman, D. S. , Huska, J. A. , & Keane, T. M. (1993). The PTSD checklist (PCL): Reliability, validity, and diagnostic utility . Annual meeting of the international society for traumatic stress studies, San Antonio, TX.
  • Wikman, A. , Marklund, S. , & Alexanderson, K. (2005). Illness, disease, and sickness absence: An empirical test of differences between concepts of ill health. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health , 59(6), 450–454.
  • Zeileis, A. , Kleiber, C. , & Jackman, S. (2008). Regression models for count data in R. Journal of Statistical Software, Articles , 27(8), 1–25.