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Health Protection & Promotion for Oregon Correctional Officers

NCT ID: NCT02098603

Last Updated: 2015-10-30

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

86 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2013-01-31

Study Completion Date

2014-09-30

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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Physical Activity Nutrition Health Promotion Stress, Psychological Metabolic Syndrome

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Testing Only

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Testing & Intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Testing & Intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

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 or overtime activities.

Interventions

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Testing & Intervention

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 or overtime activities.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* security employee of a participating facility in the Oregon Department of Corrections

Exclusion Criteria

* none
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

70 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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

FED

Sponsor Role collaborator

Oregon Healthy Workforce Center

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Oregon Health and Science University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Kerry Kuehl

Professor of Medicine

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Kerry S Kuehl, MD, DrPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Oregon Health and Science University

Locations

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Oregon Health and Science University

Portland, Oregon, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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U19OH010154

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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e7925

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id