None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
To see whether a resilience training package will decrease trauma symptoms in police and lead to lower drug and alcohol use and fewer cases of absenteeism.
Interventions
Resilience Training: stress inoculation techniques & serial approximation to fear situations (1 session 120 minutes; 2nd session 30 minutes; 3rd session 30 minutes), drug and alcohol counselling (1 session 30 minutes). Delivered during the recruit basic training over 3 months. Booklet provided during intervention and again 3 months after having left the academy. Content of booklet is a summary of material presented during intervention. This intervention is in addition to the normal training of r
Resilience Training: stress inoculation techniques & serial approximation to fear situations (1 session 120 minutes; 2nd session 30 minutes; 3rd session 30 minutes), drug and alcohol counselling (1 session 30 minutes). Delivered during the recruit basic training over 3 months. Booklet provided during intervention and again 3 months after having left the academy. Content of booklet is a summary of material presented during intervention. This intervention is in addition to the normal training of recruits.
Sponsors
Associate Professor Grant Devilly
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
New Police Recruits In Victoria
Exclusion criteria
None
Outcome results
None listed