Résumés
Résumé
Bien que la profession policière soit reconnue comme pouvant générer un niveau élevé de stress, les études montrent que les policier·ière·s font encore peu appel à de l’aide psychologique. La plupart de ces études ont été conduites auprès de populations policières américaines, mais aucune étude à ce sujet n’a été réalisée auprès d’une population policière québécoise. En 2021, une étude s’intéressant à l’utilisation des services d’aide psychologique et comportant un volet quantitatif et qualitatif a été conduite auprès des policier·ière·s du Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM). Le présent article porte sur les résultats du volet qualitatif qui visait plus spécifiquement à recueillir le point de vue des policier·ière·s sur les barrières à la consultation et leurs recommandations pour la faciliter. Entre 106 et 156 participant·e·s ont répondu sur la plateforme SurveyMonkey aux questions ouvertes de l’étude plus large. Les résultats des analyses thématiques montrent que les barrières à la consultation identifiées par les policier·ière·s se rapportent à des obstacles logistiques, des obstacles sur le plan professionnel et personnel, et des obstacles en lien avec le psychologue ou le professionnel de la santé. En guise de recommandations, les participant·e·s à l’étude ont indiqué entre autres vouloir entendre parler et parler davantage de la santé mentale, ce qui témoigne de leur intérêt pour le sujet et de leur souhait que les questions relatives à la santé mentale des policier·ière·s soient abordées de manière plus ouverte au sein de l’organisation.
Mots-clés :
- Santé mentale,
- policier·ière·s,
- barrières à la consultation,
- demande d’aide psychologique
Abstract
While the police profession is recognized as being capable of generating high levels of stress, studies have shown that police officers nonetheless continue to rarely seek psychological help. Most of these studies have been conducted on American police officers, but no study on this subject has been conducted on police officers in Quebec. To this end, a study on the use of psychological assistance services including quantitative and qualitative components was conducted in 2021 with SPVM police officers. This article focuses on the results of the qualitative component, which aimed to gather the police officers’ point of view on the existing barriers to consultation, as well as their recommendations for facilitating it. Between 106 and 156 police officers answered open questions on SurveyMonkey. The results of the thematic analyses reveal that the barriers to consultation identified by the police officers relate to logistical barriers, professional and personal barriers, as well as barriers related to the psychologist or health professional. Recommendations from study participants included wanting to hear and talk more about mental health, reflecting their interest in the topic and their desire for police mental health issues to be addressed more openly within the organization.
Keywords:
- Mental health,
- police officers,
- barriers to counselling,
- seeking psychological help
Resumen
Aunque se sabe que la profesión policial genera un alto nivel de estrés, los estudios demuestran que los agentes de policía siguen buscando ayuda psicológica en contadas ocasiones. La mayoría de estos estudios se han realizado entre policías estadounidenses, pero no se ha realizado ningún estudio sobre este tema entre policías de Quebec. En 2021, se realizó un estudio cuantitativo y cualitativo sobre el uso de los servicios de asistencia psicológica entre los policías del SPVM. Este artículo se centra en los resultados del componente cualitativo, que tenía como objetivo más específico capturar las opiniones de los policías sobre los obstáculos al asesoramiento y sus recomendaciones para facilitarlo. Entre 106 y 156 participantes respondieron en la plataforma Survey Monkey a las preguntas abiertas del estudio más amplio. Los resultados de los análisis temáticos muestran que las barreras al asesoramiento identificadas por los policías están relacionadas con obstáculos logísticos, obstáculos profesionales y personales y obstáculos asociados al psicólogo o profesional sanitario. A modo de recomendaciones, los participantes en el estudio indicaron, entre otras cosas, que querían oír y hablar más de salud mental, lo que demuestra su interés por el tema y su deseo de que las cuestiones relativas a la salud mental de los policías se aborden más abiertamente en la organización.
Palabras clave:
- Salud mental,
- agentes de policía,
- barreras al asesoramiento,
- solicitud de ayuda psicológica
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