Resilience Training for First Responders in the Opioid Epidemic
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, Stress, Mindfulness
In brief
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.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04929613
- Run by
- West Virginia University
- People needed
- 30
- Starts
- 2017-10-24
- Expected to finish
- 2018-06-26
- Last updated by the study team
- 2024-01-30
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Current employment as a first responder
- West Virginia residency
- Availability/willingness to engage in a 2.5-day retreat style intervention on identified dates.
You may not qualify if…
- Not an actively employed first responder
- Does not currently reside in WV
- Not willing or able to participate
Where it is running
- Kanawha-Charleston Health Department — Charleston, West Virginia, United States
- Saint John XXIII Pastoral Center — Charleston, West Virginia, United States
- Marshall University — Huntington, West Virginia, United States
- West Virginia University — Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
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