Building Resilience in an Urban Police Department

Sandra L Ramey; Yelena Perkhounkova; Maria Hein; Sophia Chung; Warren D Franke; Amanda A Anderson

doi:10.1097/JOM.0000000000000791

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Building Resilience in an Urban Police Department

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Building Resilience in an Urban Police Department

Sandra L Ramey, Yelena Perkhounkova, Maria Hein, Sophia Chung, Warren D Franke and Amanda A Anderson

Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, Vol.58(8), pp.796-804

08/2016

DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000791

PMID: 27414008

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine a resilience training intervention that impacts autonomic responses to stress and improves cardiovascular risk, psychological, and physiological outcomes in police. Officers [(n = 38) 22 to 54 years] modified emotional and physical responses to stress using self-regulation. Measurements include psychological and physiological measures [eg, heart rate variability (HRV), blood pressure, C-reactive protein)] obtained at three time intervals. Age was significantly (P < 0.05) associated with changes on several measures of psychological stress (eg, critical incident stress, emotional vitality, and depression). Associations were found between coherence and improved HbA1c (r = -0.66, P < 0.001) and stress due to organizational pressures (r = -0.44, P = 0.03). Improvements in sympathetic and parasympathetic contributors of HRV were significant (P < 0.03). A stress-resilience intervention improves certain responses to job stress with greater benefits for younger participants.

Blood Pressure

Heart Rate

Cardiovascular Diseases

Humans

Middle Aged

Risk Factors

Biofeedback, Psychology

Depression

Male

Police

Emotions

Young Adult

Pilot Projects

Health Promotion

Autonomic Nervous System

Stress, Psychological

Adult

Female

Occupational Stress

Resilience, Psychological

C-Reactive Protein - analysis

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Title: Subtitle: Building Resilience in an Urban Police Department
Creators: Sandra L Ramey - University of Iowa, College of Nursing, Iowa City, Iowa (Drs Ramey and Perkhounkova, Ms Hein), University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, Iowa (Dr Ramey), University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea (Dr Chung), and Iowa State University, Department of Kinesiology, Ames, Iowa (Dr Franke and Ms Anderson)
Yelena Perkhounkova
Maria Hein
Sophia Chung
Warren D Franke
Amanda A Anderson
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, Vol.58(8), pp.796-804
Publisher: United States
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000791
PMID: 27414008
ISSN: 1076-2752
eISSN: 1536-5948
Language: English
Date published: 08/2016
Academic Unit: Nursing; Research Dept
Record Identifier: 9984064161702771

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