Health Protection & Promotion for Oregon Correctional Officers
| Status: | Completed |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Food Studies, Healthy Studies, Psychiatric, Endocrine |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Endocrinology, Pharmacology / Toxicology, Psychiatry / Psychology, Other |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 18 - 70 |
| Updated: | 4/21/2016 |
| Start Date: | January 2013 |
| End Date: | September 2014 |
More than 530,000 individuals work as US Correctional Officers (COs) responsible for
overseeing the approximately 1.6 million offenders who are incarcerated at any given time in
the United States. Prison work is regarded as one of the most difficult occupations with
CO's having one of the highest nonfatal injury rates of all U.S. occupations. The few
studies done on CO's show high levels of stress, cardiovascular disease, high job burnout,
increased sick leave rates and absenteeism, and decreased quality of life leading to
premature illness/injury and high employer healthcare costs. Many of these conditions could
be prevented by specific training activities and healthier lifestyles. The investigators
wish to test a worksite-based, health promotion curriculum in COs with the overall
hypothesis that the program will improve health and decrease injuries. The program proposed
would be the first occupational intervention to improve the safety, and emotional and
physical health of those who are charged with the complex task of prison work protecting the
investigators communities. If successful, this proposal would result in an exportable,
practical occupational safety and health program applicable for use by local, state, and
federal correctional facilities.
overseeing the approximately 1.6 million offenders who are incarcerated at any given time in
the United States. Prison work is regarded as one of the most difficult occupations with
CO's having one of the highest nonfatal injury rates of all U.S. occupations. The few
studies done on CO's show high levels of stress, cardiovascular disease, high job burnout,
increased sick leave rates and absenteeism, and decreased quality of life leading to
premature illness/injury and high employer healthcare costs. Many of these conditions could
be prevented by specific training activities and healthier lifestyles. The investigators
wish to test a worksite-based, health promotion curriculum in COs with the overall
hypothesis that the program will improve health and decrease injuries. The program proposed
would be the first occupational intervention to improve the safety, and emotional and
physical health of those who are charged with the complex task of prison work protecting the
investigators communities. If successful, this proposal would result in an exportable,
practical occupational safety and health program applicable for use by local, state, and
federal correctional facilities.
Investigators will enroll up to 100 Correctional Officers from four Oregon Department of
Corrections facilities for a randomized controlled 1-year assessment of the intervention.
Participants will be evaluated at baseline, 6, and 12 months.
Primary study aims are; 1) Implement a randomized controlled efficacy trial of the
Team-centered health promotion intervention, and assess its behavioral and occupational
outcomes among COs, 2) Perform a cost analysis to determine the potential economic impact of
this CO worksite health promotion program on illness/injury rates and disability claims, and
3) Determine relationships among specific intervention components with changes to behavior
and occupational outcomes and assess by mediation analysis.
The intervention involves a scripted peer-taught interactive curriculum, which is delivered
as twelve, 30 minute weekly sessions incorporated into a team's usual work time activities.
The curriculum is designed to build understanding, healthy decision making skills and
engender the social support of teammates; its content and scope reflects the core lifestyles
activities used with fire fighters and law enforcement, along with adaptations for the needs
of Correctional Officers in domains of the team-building, family support and psychological
health.
Participant assessments include established survey instruments, physiological measures and
selected laboratory parameters of outcomes and potential mediating variables at the
individual, interpersonal and organizational levels. Intervention delivery and fidelity will
be assessed. Multilevel and latent growth modeling and mediation analyses will be used to
assess outcomes and the relationships among variables. At proposal completion there will be
an evidenced-based, exportable occupational safety and health program for COs. Its critical
components will be defined, and its benefits clearly determined.
Corrections facilities for a randomized controlled 1-year assessment of the intervention.
Participants will be evaluated at baseline, 6, and 12 months.
Primary study aims are; 1) Implement a randomized controlled efficacy trial of the
Team-centered health promotion intervention, and assess its behavioral and occupational
outcomes among COs, 2) Perform a cost analysis to determine the potential economic impact of
this CO worksite health promotion program on illness/injury rates and disability claims, and
3) Determine relationships among specific intervention components with changes to behavior
and occupational outcomes and assess by mediation analysis.
The intervention involves a scripted peer-taught interactive curriculum, which is delivered
as twelve, 30 minute weekly sessions incorporated into a team's usual work time activities.
The curriculum is designed to build understanding, healthy decision making skills and
engender the social support of teammates; its content and scope reflects the core lifestyles
activities used with fire fighters and law enforcement, along with adaptations for the needs
of Correctional Officers in domains of the team-building, family support and psychological
health.
Participant assessments include established survey instruments, physiological measures and
selected laboratory parameters of outcomes and potential mediating variables at the
individual, interpersonal and organizational levels. Intervention delivery and fidelity will
be assessed. Multilevel and latent growth modeling and mediation analyses will be used to
assess outcomes and the relationships among variables. At proposal completion there will be
an evidenced-based, exportable occupational safety and health program for COs. Its critical
components will be defined, and its benefits clearly determined.
Inclusion Criteria:
- security employee of a participating facility in the Oregon Department of Corrections
Exclusion Criteria:
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3181 Southwest Sam Jackson Park Road
Portland, Oregon 97239
Portland, Oregon 97239
503 494-8311
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