Persistent and aggressive interactions with the police: potential mental health implications.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings support existing preliminary evidence of an association between high lifetime police stops and PTSD symptoms. If future research can confirm as causal, these results have considerable public health implications given the frequent interaction between police and residents in disadvantaged communities in large urban areas. PMID: 30714560 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30714560?dopt=Abstract

Source: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences - February 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci Source Type: research