The safety and health improvement: enhancing law enforcement departments study: feasibility and findings

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• Personal Author:
  DeFrancesco C ; Elliot DL ; Goldberg L ; Kuehl KS ; MacKinnon DP ; McGinnis W ; Miocevic M ; O'Rourke HP ; Sleigh A ; Smith J ; Valente M ; Vila BJ
• Description:
  This randomized prospective trial aimed to assess the feasibility and efficacy of a team based worksite health and safety intervention for lawenforcement personnel. Four-hundred and eight subjects were enrolled and half were randomized to meet for weekly, peer-led sessions delivered from a scripted team-based health and safety curriculum. Curriculum addressed: exercise, nutrition, stress, sleep, body weight, injury, and other unhealthy lifestyle behaviors such as smoking and heavy alcohol use. Health and safety questionnaires administered before and after the intervention found significant improvements for increased fruit and vegetable consumption, overall healthy eating, increased sleep quantity and sleep quality, and reduced personal stress. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Diet Emergency Responders Fatigue Health Promotion Law Enforcement Men Mental Health Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Sleep Stress, Psychological Substance-Related Disorders Surveys And Questionnaires Tobacco Products Women

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• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Health Promotion Emergency-responders Health-programs Health Promotion Humans Law-enforcement Law Enforcement Occupational Health Physical-fitness Physical Exercise Physiological-effects Physiological-stress Physiology Police-officers Psychological-effects Psychological-factors Psychological-stress Psychology Quality Of Life Questionnaires Risk Factors Safety Safety-programs Stress Substance Abuse Team-based Tobacco

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• ISSN:
  2296-2565
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  38
• Volume:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048437
• Citation:
  Front Public Health 2014 May; 2:38
• Contact Point Address:
  Kerry S. Kuehl, MD, DrPH, Oregon Health & Science University CR110, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239 3098
• Email:
  kuehlk@ohsu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Performing Organization:
  Oregon Health and Science University, Portland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20100801
• Source Full Name:
  Frontiers in Public Health
• End Date:
  20150731
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4590214e1d018a5ba075d48af5263bf885f3f0e664409efa206f4c846bc66856d1013384083350fe9ba90dd28ee576210ca1cb23d2d826105d393baf7bd80f57
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203190/cdc_203190_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 714.80 KB ]