WHAT? 
The first anonymous Canada-wide assessment of Occupational Stress Injuries (including PTSD, depression and anxiety) amongst nurses.    
 
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE? 
All nurses, regardless of your mental health. Your responses will help everyone in need!  The survey is available below and will ask you to reflect on your own mental health, which may be challenging at times, but will add your anonymous voice to those of your peers across the country. The more of you who participate, with or without mental health problems, the more weight your collective voice will have in fostering better mental health for all Canadian nurses.    
 
WHY PARTICIPATE? 
 Numbers matter. We currently don’t have reliable data.  We value your contributions. Your participation will provide evidence for strategies and resources to support the mental health of all nurses.  Please share this survey with all the nurses within your network. Even if you feel some questions do not apply to you, we ask that, as you complete the survey, you remember not to question your eligibility when reading questions that appear designed for individuals in different roles. By participating, you are supporting both yourself and your peers to provide evidence that can inform appropriate resources for supporting nurses’ mental health.

Change starts here!
 
A mental health research team that recognizes nurses can suffer from occupational stress injuries (OSIs) that are too often hidden. With the support of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions and your provincial nurses’ unions, we have designed this survey to provide you with a voice in the first anonymous Canada-wide assessment of stress injuries in nurses. To date, there has been no national standardized survey data available on the prevalence of occupational stress injuries (including PTSD, depression, and anxiety) amongst nurses. Nor has there been any national attempt to identify risk factors to help inform programs needed to prevent and respond to injuries. The argument has been made that nurses should be included along the public safety continuum (e.g., with paramedics, firefighters, police) who attend a potentially traumatic event. Workplace violence, stress, and burnout are widespread features of health care workplaces across Canada, resulting in cumulative trauma. A 2015 Manitoba Nurses Union report found that a quarter of its members consistently experience PTSD symptoms; 53% have experienced critical incident stress. These high prevalence rates are in line with those associated with public safety personnel and much higher than the lifetime PTSD prevalence rates for the general Canadian population (9.2%). In addition, PTSD prevalence rates for women are also double that for men, and 90% of nurses are female.
 
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Survey available until August 31, 2019