Journalists working in high threat locations are to participate in an industry-wide study into occupational stress.

The research, being conducted by Tess Browne as part of her doctoral degree in clinical psychology and Dr Neil Greenberg, senior lecturer in military pyschiatry at Kings College London, requires participants from UK news organisations to voluntarily complete a confidential questionnaire.

"We are aiming to get a representative sample of media professionals who have worked in high threat locations in order to ascertain the impact that their work may have had upon their health," Dr Greenberg told Journalism.co.uk.

"Media professionals are clearly at some risk of developing mental health conditions and there is lots of work to support this but very little done on UK journalists," he said.

"We will also be looking at the issue of trauma related guilt which may, we hypothesise, result from having to report on trauma rather than help to deal with its consequences."

At this stage, data collection is underway but work will be not be finished until later this year.

Further information regarding the project will be released by the researchers in due course. More background on research at the King's Centre for Military Health Research can be found at this link.

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