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Comprehensive Police Fatigue Management Program

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Mass General Brigham

Status

Completed

Conditions

Sleep Disorders
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
Sleep Apnea, Obstructive
Sleep Disorders, Circadian Rhythm
Restless Legs Syndrome

Treatments

Other: Online Sleep Disorders Screening
Behavioral: Sleep Hygiene Education
Other: Expert-Led Sleep Disorders Screening and Treatment

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00246051
SL00067

Details and patient eligibility

About

Police officers work some of the most demanding schedules known, which increases their risk of sleep deprivation and sleep disorders. The need to work frequent overnight shifts and long work weeks leads to acute and chronic partial sleep deprivation as well as misalignment of circadian phase. The public expects officers to perform flawlessly, but sleep deprivation and unrecognized sleep disorders significantly degrade cognition, alertness, reaction time and performance. In addition, both acute and chronic sleep deprivation adversely affect personal health, increasing the risk of gastrointestinal and heart disease, impairing glucose metabolism, and substantially increasing the risk of injury due to motor vehicle crashes.

We propose to conduct a randomized, prospective study of the effect on the safety, health, and performance of a police department of a Comprehensive Police Fatigue Management Program (CPFMP) consisting of the following interventions:

  1. identification and treatment of police with sleep disorders;
  2. caffeine re-education; and
  3. initiation of a sleep, health and safety educational program.

These interventions were chosen because we believe them most likely to lead to measurable improvements on work hours, health, safety, and job performance, and because they are cost effective. The success of the CPFMP will be assessed through an experimental comparison with a standard treatment group that will receive sleep education in the absence of any accompanying interventions. The overall goal of our team will be sleep health detection and treatment program that can be disseminated to practitioners, policymakers and researchers nationwide to reduce police officer fatigue and stress; enhance the ability of officers to cope with shift schedules; improve the health, safety and performance of law enforcement officers; and thereby improve public safety.

Enrollment

683 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Active Sworn Police Officers

Exclusion criteria

  • None

Trial design

Primary purpose

Diagnostic

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Factorial Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

683 participants in 3 patient groups

Sleep Hygiene Education
Other group
Treatment:
Behavioral: Sleep Hygiene Education
Expert-Led Sleep Disorders Screening and Treatment
Other group
Treatment:
Other: Expert-Led Sleep Disorders Screening and Treatment
Online Sleep Disorders Screening
Other group
Treatment:
Other: Online Sleep Disorders Screening

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