Avaliação de estresse em cadetes do primeiro ano do CFO PM

Abstract

Stress is a state consisting of the sum of physical and mental responses caused by stressful stimuli, this evil of the 21st century affects the military police who are daily under an arduous routine of service that requires a mental and physical effort of the individual. In the case of the police cadet the stress can develop even more serious symptoms because the official student lives a sui generis situation of military police and student, very stressful occupations. The objective of this study was to evaluate the symptoms of stress in thirty-one cadets of the first year of the training course of PMMA officers. The subjects were submitted to a specific questionnaire for the diagnosis of stress symptomatology, the Inventory of Stress Symptoms for LIPP adults (ISSL), in two moments in the first month, when they joined the corporation and at the end of the internship period, nine months later. Data were obtained which showed that cadet stress between the periods increased substantially, in all phases including the most harmful phase of exhaustion. It is concluded that police officer training at the military police academy is stressful as it prepares the individual for a career full of unforeseen and stressful stimuli. The military police officer, when a cadet, is also a college graduate who is under pressure from both the military and university corps and lives under constant stress, which must be worked on so that it is not aggravated by the development of more serious pathologies.