TY - JOUR
T1 - Mental Health Disorders and Utilization of Mental Healthcare Services in United Nations Personnel
AU - Brown, Adam D.
AU - Schultebraucks, Katharina
AU - Qian, Meng
AU - Li, Meng
AU - Horesh, Danny
AU - Siegel, Carol
AU - Brody, Yosef
AU - Amer, Abdalla Mansour
AU - Lev-Ari, Rony Kapel
AU - Mas, Francis
AU - Marmar, Charles R.
AU - Farmer, Jillann
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s).
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Background: United Nations (UN) personnel address a diverse range of political, social, and cultural crises throughout the world. Compared with other occupations routinely exposed to traumatic stress, there remains a paucity of research on mental health disorders and access to mental healthcare in this population. To fill this gap, personnel from UN agencies were surveyed for mental health disorders and mental healthcare utilization. Methods: UN personnel (N = 17 363) from 11 UN entities completed online measures of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), major depressive disorder (MDD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma exposure, mental healthcare usage, and socio-demographic information. Results: Exposure to one or more traumatic events was reported by 36.2% of survey responders. Additionally, 17.9% screened positive for GAD, 22.8% for MDD, and 19.9% for PTSD. Employing multivariable logistic regressions, low job satisfaction, younger age (
AB - Background: United Nations (UN) personnel address a diverse range of political, social, and cultural crises throughout the world. Compared with other occupations routinely exposed to traumatic stress, there remains a paucity of research on mental health disorders and access to mental healthcare in this population. To fill this gap, personnel from UN agencies were surveyed for mental health disorders and mental healthcare utilization. Methods: UN personnel (N = 17 363) from 11 UN entities completed online measures of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), major depressive disorder (MDD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma exposure, mental healthcare usage, and socio-demographic information. Results: Exposure to one or more traumatic events was reported by 36.2% of survey responders. Additionally, 17.9% screened positive for GAD, 22.8% for MDD, and 19.9% for PTSD. Employing multivariable logistic regressions, low job satisfaction, younger age (
KW - Human rights
KW - Secondary trauma
KW - Trauma
KW - United Nations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85101088278&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/gmh.2019.29
DO - 10.1017/gmh.2019.29
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C2 - 32180988
SN - 2054-4251
VL - 7
JO - GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH
JF - GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH
M1 - 5
ER -
