Testing the Efficacy of a 1-Day Police Decision-Making and Autonomic Modulation Intervention: A Quasi-Random Pragmatic Controlled Trial.

autonomic arousal biofeedback heart rate variability occupational stress police education police training stress management use of force

Journal

Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2021
Historique:
received: 01 06 2021
accepted: 23 07 2021
entrez: 30 8 2021
pubmed: 31 8 2021
medline: 31 8 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Contemporary discourse has identified several urgent priorities concerning police training and education, including: (a) empirically testing and validating the effectiveness of current programming in reducing lethal force decision-making errors; (b) integrating evidence-based content and pedagogical approaches into police curriculum; and (c) understanding the breadth and length of programming necessary to ensure learning and transfer of skills to operational field settings. Widespread calls to identify effective and actionable training programs have been met with numerous research studies, systematic reviews, and policy recommendations that reveal the need to train officers' internal physiological awareness, which is foundational in shaping cognitive decision-making, emotion regulation, and behavior under stressful conditions. Several investigations have shown improvements to both lethal force errors and physiological recovery following a multi-day autonomic modulation (AM) intervention. Immediate and sustained training gains are observed following repeated practice with clinically validated protocols integrated into training scenarios. Despite evidence-based support for AM in addressing the aforementioned priorities, police organizations are faced with limited time and funding for training and education. The goal of the current quasi-random pragmatic controlled trial was to evaluate the effectiveness of a modified 1-day version of an established AM intervention. A sample of active-duty police officers were quasi-randomly assigned to an AM intervention (

Identifiants

pubmed: 34456827
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.719046
pmc: PMC8385198
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

719046

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 Di Nota, Arpaia, Boychuk, Collins and Andersen.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Paula Maria Di Nota (PM)

Health Adaptation Research on Trauma Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON, Canada.

Joseph Arpaia (J)

Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, ON, United States.

Evelyn Carol Boychuk (EC)

Health Adaptation Research on Trauma Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON, Canada.

Peter I Collins (PI)

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Judith Pizarro Andersen (JP)

Health Adaptation Research on Trauma Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON, Canada.

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