None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
There is considerable evidence that corrections officers are at higher risk of mental health problems, largely arising from traumatic events and ongoing stressors in prisons. This program aims to trial an innovative Resilience Training program that builds on a program developed by the World Health Organization to teach awareness about identifying stress, stress reduction strategies, problem management, and maintaining productive and social activities. The Resilience Program will also provide participants with an app to download on their phones that will provide them with exercises to practice stress reduction strategies. The trial will randomise 600 NSW Corrective Services personnel to either the Resilience Program or Repeated Assessment conditions. The Resilience Program will provide 2 x 2-hour sessions administered by clinical psychologists one month apart, delivered in groups of 10-15 people. Participants will be assessed for psychological distress and help-seeking at baseline, 2-months, and 6-months, with the 6-month assessment being the primary outcome timepoint. The trial will also for sickness leave from Department of Corrective Service work records.
Interventions
There are two arms to this trial. Arm 1: Resilience Program. Arm 2: Repeated Assessments. The Resilience Program is an adaptation of an evidence-based psychological intervention, Problem Management Plus. The Resilience program is administered face-to-face over two x 2-hour group sessions that are administered one month apart. Sessions are administered by clinical psychologists to groups of 10-15 people. The clinical psychologist will teach the following stress coping strategies: anxiety reductio
There are two arms to this trial. Arm 1: Resilience Program. Arm 2: Repeated Assessments. The Resilience Program is an adaptation of an evidence-based psychological intervention, Problem Management Plus. The Resilience program is administered face-to-face over two x 2-hour group sessions that are administered one month apart. Sessions are administered by clinical psychologists to groups of 10-15 people. The clinical psychologist will teach the following stress coping strategies: anxiety reduction, problem solving, behavioral activation, and accessing social support. This will occur will via educational sessions and group discussions. Participants will also be instructed to download an app (the Headgear app) that provides additional skills in anxiety reduction, mindfulness, and behavioural activation. This app will guide participants in these skills via instructional prompts and will be available to participants to use on an ongoing basis for the duration of the study. The app will be available for participants as an ongoing self-help aid to be used at the participant's discretion. The duration of the study for any participant will conclude after a 6-month follow-up assessment, resulting in participation duration of 30 weeks. Adherence will be assessed by monitoring participants' attendance at each session via a checklist maintained by the clinical psychologist.
Sponsors
UNSW Sydney
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Employee of Corrections NSW Minimum 18 years of age
Exclusion criteria
None
Outcome results
None listed