Clinical trial NCT06928610: Heart Math Resilience Program on Jail Staff
Official title: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the HeartMath Resilience Program: Exploring the Impact of Stress on Jail Staff Performance and Retention
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Stress
Keywords: Chronic Stress
Perceptions of job satisfaction
Workplace safety
Occupational stress
Retention and absenteeism
Punitive attitudes
Apprehension to employ use of force
HeartMath
Resiliency-based intervention
Correctional officers
Lead sponsor: Florida State University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Leon County Sheriff's Office
First posted: 2025-04-15
Enrollment: 300
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Randomized controlled trial with an intervention arm and a waitlist control arm
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The study is a multiple cohort, staggered-entry, waitlist randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of a comprehensive resiliency-based program in reducing stress for correctional officers employed by the Leon County Sheriff's Office in Tallahassee, FL.

Detailed description: The primary objective of the study is to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of a comprehensive resiliency-based intervention, HeartMath, designed to reduce stress for correctional officers (COs) currently employed with the Leon County Sherriff's Office in Tallahassee, Florida. The study will also examine whether the intervention 1) improves perceptions of job satisfaction, workplace safety, and occupational stress; 2) improves CO retention and decreases absenteeism; 3) results in less punitive attitudes and greater apprehension to employ use of force.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Leon County Sheriff's Office jail correctional officers.
* Attending a defensive tactics training by Leon County Sheriff's Office
* Age 18 years or older
* Conversational English
* Being willing and cognitively able to provide consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not meeting Inclusion Criteria

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change In Perceived Chronic Stress Level
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Perceived Work Stress Level
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in Workplace Safety Perceptions
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Job Satisfaction
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Support for Punishment
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Support for Treatment
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Readiness to Use Force
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Officer Absenteeism
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Officer Employment Status
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Organizational Committment
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Turnover Intent
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Views on Absenteeism
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Change in PTSD
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Depression
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Anxiety
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Incidence of Substance Use Disorder
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Impulsivity
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Aggression
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Psychological Distress
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Psychological Wellbeing
timeFrame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months
Locations:
city: Tallahassee
country: United States
facility: Leon County Detention Facilities
state: Florida
Study officials:
affiliation: Florida State University
name: Tanya Renn, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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