N/A
Completed N=30
Resilience Training for First Responders in the Opioid Epidemic
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04929613 ↗Enrolled (actual)
30
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Jan 2024
Primary outcomePrimary: Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) — 111.6 score on a scale
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.
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) |
115.6 | — |
| PRIMARY Mindfulness Process Questionnaire (MPQ) |
25.7 | — |
| PRIMARY Organizational Police Stress Questionnaire |
57.6 | — |
| PRIMARY Operational Police Stress Questionnaire |
52.3 | — |
| PRIMARY Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) |
8.8 | — |
| PRIMARY Emotional Regulation |
77.8 | — |
| PRIMARY Emotional Intelligence Scale |
120.6 | — |
| PRIMARY Brief Resilience Scale |
3.0 | — |
| PRIMARY General Family Functioning |
35.8 | — |
| PRIMARY PROMIS Sleep |
10.9 | — |
| PRIMARY PROMIS Health |
33.3 | — |
| PRIMARY PROMIS Fatigue |
8.9 | — |
| PRIMARY PROMIS Anger |
11.3 | — |
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
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04929613). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication. Informational only — not medical advice.