Author:

• claudia de magalhães bezerra - Bezerra,C.M. - RJ, RJ - Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca - <claudiabez@gmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• Patricia Constantino - Constantino, P. - Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca - ENSP - <Patricia.Constantino@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5835-0466
• Simone de Assis - de Assis, Simone - Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca - ENSP - <sgassis@globo.com>

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Abstract:

This article presents a review of literature based on a survey in national and international journals on psychological distress and stress in the work of correctional officers between 2000 and 2014. The database used was Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde, Web of Science and Scopus and the descriptors were psychological distress, stress and correctional officers. We analyzed 40 articles, mainly about stress. The concept of burnout appeared in several works. USA is the country that most publishes on the subject, especially in criminal justice journals. There is little interest about the subject in the magazines of Public Health. In Latin America we found only four studies, all Brazilians. The number of publications has gradually intensified over the years and there were methodological improvement in the development and assessment scales, mainly of stress and burnout. Among the risk factors are found work overload, lack of material and human resources, level of contact with the inmates, overcrowding, perceptions of fear or danger; paradox punish / reeducate, among others. The protective factors refer to social support within the prison environment and the coping strategies are related to the improvement of training of agents, stimulating social support and offering psychological care.

Keywords:

stress psychological distress burnout work conditions correctional officers

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