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Trial of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Mental Health Training for Police Officers

NCT05606289 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 242

Last updated 2026-04-24

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn the effect, or lack thereof, of the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training among police officers. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Whether the 40-hour CIT training improves police officers' verbal crisis de-escalation skills / non-verbal physical behavior
* Whether police officers with and without CIT training use different procedural justice and make different disposition-related decisions

Participants will:

* Receive or not receive CIT training depending on whether they are randomized to the intervention group or the control group.
* Participate in three assessments: baseline before the randomization, 3-months post-randomization, and 6-month post-randomization.

Researchers will compare police officers who were randomized to the control group with police officers who were randomized to the intervention group to see if receiving the CIT training make differences on the outcome measurements.

Conditions

  • Officers' Skills and Behaviors

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training

Standard 40-hour CIT training given in one week.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

    collaborator OTHER

  • Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.

    collaborator OTHER

  • Wayne State University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Columbia University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michael T. Compton, MD, MPH · Columbia University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-01-01
Primary Completion
2025-12-17
Completion
2025-12-17

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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