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Safety & Health Improvement: Enhancing Law Enforcement Departments

NCT01279941 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 489

Last updated 2015-10-30

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Summary

Researchers from Oregon Health \& Science University have developed a science-based, team-centered, scripted peer-taught program for fire fighters improving diet and exercise behavior while reducing injury rates and costs. Those investigators are partnering with local law enforcement agencies in Oregon and SW Washington to adapt, apply and assess this work-based program among a new high risk group to improve the health and safety of law enforcement officers (LEOs). Fire fighters' work structure is a natural fit for a team-centered format, and teammates' social support appeared to partially mediate the intervention's positive outcomes. Although conducive to team formation, LEOs' work lacks the established team structure of fire fighters. This proposal will apply the team-centered intervention to LEOs and in the process, learn more about teams as vehicles of health behavior change, and their relationship with outcomes and other potential mediating variables in a multilevel ecological analytic framework.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral: Team-based intervention

The intervention involves a scripted peer-taught interactive curriculum, which is delivered as twelve, one-hour weekly sessions incorporated into a team's usual work time activities, with four follow-up booster sessions after twelve months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH/CDC)

    collaborator FED

  • Oregon Health and Science University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kerry S Kuehl, MD, PhD · Oregon Health and Science University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-08-31
Primary Completion
2015-08-31
Completion
2015-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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