A longitudinal assessment of the road to mental readiness training among municipal police
| Autor: | Gregory S. Anderson, Stephanie Korol, Nicholas A. Jones, Andrew C. H. Szeto, Suzanne Bailey, Kadie Hozempa, R. Nicholas Carleton, Julia E. Mason, Keith S. Dobson |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Canada 050103 clinical psychology media_common.quotation_subject Applied psychology Psychological intervention resilency Stigma (botany) Commission Anxiety Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Surveys and Questionnaires Agency (sociology) Resiliency Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Longitudinal Studies 0505 law media_common Road to Mental Readiness (R2MR) training Depression Communication Mental Disorders Work engagement 05 social sciences Multilevel model Middle Aged Resilience Psychological Mental health Police Clinical Psychology Mental Health Attitude stigma road to mental readiness (R2MR) 050501 criminology Female Psychological resilience Psychology Attitude to Health |
| Popis: | © 2018 the Author(s). published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis group.this is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. Police agencies increasingly implement training programs to protect mental health. The Road to Mental Readiness (R2MR) program was designed by the Canadian military to increase mental health resilience. A version of R2MR was adapted for municipal police by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC). The current research was designed to assess the R2MR program, as adapted and delivered by the MHCC, in a municipal police sample. Participants were 147 Canadian police agency employees (57% women) who received a single R2MR training session. Participants completed pre- and post-training self-report questionnaires, and follow-ups at 6 and 12 months. The questionnaires assessed mental health symptoms, work engagement, resiliency, mental health knowledge, and stigma. Multilevel modeling analyses assessed for within-participant changes over time. The results were consistent with other single session interventions; specifically, there were no significant changes in mental health symptoms, resilience, or work engagement (p > .05). There were small, but significant (p < .05), reductions in stigma at post-training that may facilitate help-seeking among police; relatedly, in open-ended response fields, participants commonly described the training as helpful for changing attitudes and improving communication. More engagement with the material may produce larger, sustained gains, but more published research is critically needed. R. N. Carleton’s research is supported in part by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through a New Investigator Award [grant number FRN: 285489]. Faculty yes |
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