Heart Math Resilience Program on Jail Staff

Florida State University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: HeartMath Resilience Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06928610

15PNIJ-23-GG-02231-NIJB (Other Grant/Funding Number)

STUDY00004706

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is a multiple cohort, staggered-entry, waitlist randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of a comprehensive resiliency-based program in reducing stress for correctional officers employed by the Leon County Sheriff's Office in Tallahassee, FL.

Full description

The primary objective of the study is to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of a comprehensive resiliency-based intervention, HeartMath, designed to reduce stress for correctional officers (COs) currently employed with the Leon County Sherriff's Office in Tallahassee, Florida. The study will also examine whether the intervention 1) improves perceptions of job satisfaction, workplace safety, and occupational stress; 2) improves CO retention and decreases absenteeism; 3) results in less punitive attitudes and greater apprehension to employ use of force.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Leon County Sheriff's Office jail correctional officers.
• Attending a defensive tactics training by Leon County Sheriff's Office
• Age 18 years or older
• Conversational English
• Being willing and cognitively able to provide consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Not meeting Inclusion Criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 2 patient groups

HeartMath Resilience Program

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive programming alongside their regularly scheduled defensive tactics training.

Treatment:

Behavioral: HeartMath Resilience Program

Waitlist Control, No Intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the waitlist control group will receive their regularly scheduled training programs