N/A N=30 Supportive Care

Resilience Training for First Responders in the Opioid Epidemic

Compassion Fatigue · Burnout · Stress · Mindfulness

Bottom Line

View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04929613 ↗

Enrolled (actual)

Serious AEs

0.0%

Results posted

Jan 2024

Primary outcome: Primary: Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) — 111.6 score on a scale

Study Design & Population

Study type: Interventional
Phase: N/A
Interventions: Mindfulness-Based Resilience Training (Behavioral)
Age: Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
Sex: All
Sponsor: West Virginia University
Primary completion: Jun 2018

Outcome Measures

Outcome	Result	p-value
PRIMARY Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)	115.6	—
PRIMARY Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)	115.6	—
PRIMARY Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)	115.6	—
PRIMARY Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)	115.6	—
PRIMARY Mindfulness Process Questionnaire (MPQ)	25.7	—
PRIMARY Mindfulness Process Questionnaire (MPQ)	25.7	—
PRIMARY Mindfulness Process Questionnaire (MPQ)	25.7	—
PRIMARY Mindfulness Process Questionnaire (MPQ)	25.7	—
PRIMARY Organizational Police Stress Questionnaire	57.6	—
PRIMARY Organizational Police Stress Questionnaire	57.6	—
PRIMARY Organizational Police Stress Questionnaire	57.6	—
PRIMARY Organizational Police Stress Questionnaire	57.6	—
PRIMARY Operational Police Stress Questionnaire	52.3	—
PRIMARY Operational Police Stress Questionnaire	52.3	—
PRIMARY Operational Police Stress Questionnaire	52.3	—
PRIMARY Operational Police Stress Questionnaire	52.3	—
PRIMARY Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)	8.8	—
PRIMARY Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)	8.8	—
PRIMARY Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)	8.8	—
PRIMARY Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)	8.8	—
PRIMARY Emotional Regulation	77.8	—
PRIMARY Emotional Regulation	77.8	—
PRIMARY Emotional Regulation	77.8	—
PRIMARY Emotional Regulation	77.8	—
PRIMARY Emotional Intelligence Scale	120.6	—
PRIMARY Emotional Intelligence Scale	120.6	—
PRIMARY Emotional Intelligence Scale	120.6	—
PRIMARY Emotional Intelligence Scale	120.6	—
PRIMARY Brief Resilience Scale	3.0	—
PRIMARY Brief Resilience Scale	3.0	—
PRIMARY Brief Resilience Scale	3.0	—
PRIMARY Brief Resilience Scale	3.0	—
PRIMARY General Family Functioning	35.8	—
PRIMARY General Family Functioning	35.8	—
PRIMARY General Family Functioning	35.8	—
PRIMARY General Family Functioning	35.8	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Sleep	10.9	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Sleep	10.9	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Sleep	10.9	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Sleep	10.9	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Health	33.3	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Health	33.3	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Health	33.3	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Health	33.3	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Fatigue	8.9	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Fatigue	8.9	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Fatigue	8.9	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Fatigue	8.9	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Anger	11.3	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Anger	11.3	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Anger	11.3	—
PRIMARY PROMIS Anger	11.3	—

Summary

First responders (law enforcement, firefighters, and emergency medical system personnel) are subjected to daily pressures from their duties with resultant compassion fatigue, burnout, anger, poor mental and physical health, maladaptive behavior, and sleep disturbance. The unprecedented heroin and opioid epidemic in West Virginia has accelerated the stresses as these first responders witness overdoses and overdose death on a frequent basis. The plight and suffering of children of the overdose victims is an additional overlooked element in the stress on the first responder community. The proposed project will deliver mindfulness-based resilience training to improve the mental and physical wellbeing, prevent compassion fatigue, burnout, and attrition of first responders and performance improvement by reducing predictable cognitive errors in the Charleston and Huntington areas and measure the effects of this training on this population using validated questionnaires and salivary cortisol before and after the training.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Current employment as a first responder
West Virginia residency
Availability/willingness to engage in a 2.5-day retreat style intervention on identified dates.

Exclusion Criteria

Not an actively employed first responder
Does not currently reside in WV
Not willing or able to participate

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