scholarly journals Evaluation of an Experimental Web-based Educational Module on Opioid-Related Occupational Safety among Police Officers: Protocol for a Randomized Pragmatic Trial to Minimize Barriers to Overdose Response (Preprint)

10.2196/33451 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janie Simmons ◽  
Luther Elliott ◽  
Alexander Bennett ◽  
Leo Beletsky ◽  
Sonali Rajan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Pragmatic Trial ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Educational Module

Evaluation of an Experimental Educational Module on Opioid-Related Occupational Safety among Police Officers: Protocol for a Randomized Pragmatic Trial to Minimize Barriers to Overdose Response (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janie Simmons ◽  
Luther Elliott ◽  
Alexander Bennett ◽  
Leo Beletsky ◽  
Sonali Rajan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Pragmatic Trial ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
People Who Use Drugs ◽  
Safety Study ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach

BACKGROUND As drug-related morbidity and mortality continue to surge, police officers are on the front lines of the North American overdose crisis. Drug law enforcement shapes health risks among people who use drugs (PWUD), while also impacting occupational health and wellness of officers. Effective interventions to align law enforcement practices with public health and occupational safety goals remain under-researched. OBJECTIVE The Opioids and Police Safety Study (OPS) aims to shift police practices relating to people who use drugs (PWUD). It adapts and evaluates the relative effectiveness of a curriculum that bundles content on public health promotion with occupational risk reduction (ORR) to supplement a web-based overdose response and naloxone training platform (GetNaloxoneNow or GNN). This novel approach has the potential to improve public health and occupational safety practices, including using naloxone to reverse overdoses, referring PWUD to treatment and other supportive services, and avoiding syringe confiscation. METHODS This longitudinal study employs a randomized pragmatic trial design. A sample of 300 active-duty police officers from select counties in Pennsylvania, Vermont and New Hampshire with high overdose fatality rates will be randomized (150 each) to either the experimental arm (GNN + OPS) or the control arm (GNN + COVID-19 occupational risk reduction). A pre- and post-training survey will be administered to all 300 officers, after which they will be administered quarterly surveys for 12 months. A sub-sample of police officers will also be followed qualitatively in a simultaneous embedded mixed-methods approach. RESULTS Research ethics approval was obtained from the NYU Institutional Review Board. Findings will be disseminated widely, and the training products will be available nationally once the study is completed. CONCLUSIONS The Opioids and Police Safety Study is the first study to longitudinally assess the impact of an opioid-related occupational risk reduction intervention for law enforcement in the U.S. Our randomized pragmatic clinical trial aims to remove barriers to life-saving police engagement with PWUO/PWID by focusing both on the safety of law enforcement and evidence-based and best-practices for working with persons at risk of an opioid overdose. Our simultaneous embedded mixed-methods approach will provide empirical evaluation of the diffusion of naloxone-based response among law enforcement. CLINICALTRIAL ClinicalTrials.gov #NCT05008523

An Interactive Java-Based Educational Module in Electromagnetics

2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Chetty ◽  
S. Hu ◽  
J. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Electric Dipole ◽  
Interactive Simulation ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Educational Module ◽  
Graphical Displays ◽  
Experimental Field ◽  
Instructional Aid ◽  
Audio Files ◽  
Em Theory

This paper explains the design, development and implementation of a web-based educational module for an introductory electromagnetic (EM) course at Monash University. It contains tutorials, interactive simulation and animation. The two most important sections of the module, namely ‘electric dipole’ and ‘experimental field mapping’, are described here. Both these sections are interactive and with the help of visual graphical displays and audio files they ‘stimulate’ the sight and sound senses for understanding. The module can act as an instructional aid and helps not only in understanding the fundamental concepts but also in providing a greater appreciation of the applications of EM theory. The responses from interactive simulation are displayed directly on the client browser. The overall package is developed using Java, HTML, CGI scripts written in Perl and MATLAB.

008 – Creation of an Evidence-Based Practice Web-Based Educational Module

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. e3
Author(s):  
Sharon Jackson Barton ◽  
Mei Lin Chen-Lim ◽  
Katherine Finn Davis ◽  
Elizabeth Ely
Keyword(s):  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Educational Module

scholarly journals An Affirmative Coping Skills Intervention to Improve the Mental and Sexual Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth (Project Youth AFFIRM): Protocol for an Implementation Study (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley L Craig ◽  
Lauren B McInroy ◽  
Andrew David Eaton ◽  
Gio Iacono ◽  
Vivian WY Leung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Group Intervention ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Pragmatic Trial ◽  
Internalized Homophobia ◽  
Minority Youth ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Sexual And Gender Minority ◽  
And Gender

BACKGROUND Sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY, aged 14-29 years) face increased risks to their well-being, including rejection by family, exclusion from society, depression, substance use, elevated suicidality, and harassment, when compared with their cisgender, heterosexual peers. These perils and a lack of targeted programs for SGMY exacerbate their risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions support clients by generating alternative ways of interpreting their problems and beliefs about themselves. CBT, tailored to the experiences of SGMY, may help SGMY improve their mood and coping skills by teaching them how to identify, challenge, and change maladaptive thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors. Based on the promising results of a pilot study, a CBT-informed group intervention, AFFIRM, is being tested in a pragmatic trial to assess its implementation potential. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to scale-up implementation and delivery of AFFIRM, an 8-session manualized group coping skills intervention focused on reducing sexual risk behaviors and psychosocial distress among SGMY. Our secondary aim is to decrease sexual risk taking, poor mental health, and internalized homophobia and to increase levels of sexual self-efficacy and proactive coping among SGMY. METHODS SGMY are recruited via flyers at community agencies and organizations, as well as through Web-based advertising. Potential participants are assessed for suitability for the group intervention via Web-based screening and are allocated in a 2:1 fashion to the AFFIRM intervention or a wait-listed control in a stepped wedge wait-list crossover design. The intervention groups are hosted by collaborating community agency sites (CCASs; eg, community health centers and family health teams) across Ontario, Canada. Participants are assessed at prewait (if applicable), preintervention, postintervention, 6-month follow-up, and 12-month follow-up for sexual health self-efficacy and capacity, mental health indicators, internalized homophobia, stress appraisal, proactive and active coping, and hope. Web-based data collection occurs either independently or at CCASs using tablets. Participants in crisis are assessed using an established distress protocol. RESULTS Data collection is ongoing; the target sample is 300 participants. It is anticipated that data analyses will use effect size estimates, paired sample t tests, and repeated measures linear mixed modeling in SPSS to test for differences pre- and postintervention. Descriptive analyses will summarize data and profile all variables, including internal consistency estimates. Distributional assumptions and univariate and multivariate normality of variables will be assessed. CONCLUSIONS AFFIRM is a potentially scalable intervention. Many existing community programs provide safe spaces for SGMY but do not provide skills-based training to deal with the increasingly complex lives of youth. This pragmatic trial could make a significant contribution to the field of intervention research by simultaneously moving AFFIRM into practice and evaluating its impact. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPOR DERR1-10.2196/13462

scholarly journals EFFECT OF LEGAL FRAMEWORKS ON OCCUPATIONAL, SAFETY AND HEALTH AMONG THE POLICE OFFICERS IN NAIROBI CITY COUNTY: A CASE OF KENYA

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Solomon Chepsongol Kelwon
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
P Value ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
The Government ◽  
Legal Frameworks

This paper was extracted and based on one of the variables of the researcher’s main research entitled: Antecedents of Occupational Health and Safety among the Police Officers in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The aim of the research was to analyze and find the effect of a legal framework on occupational, safety and health among Police Officers. The target population was the 4,000 Police Officers in Nairobi City County. In each police station, a sample of 5 percent Police Officers were randomly identified, selected, and interviewed by the use of questionnaires based on their availability at work. An initial pilot study of the 10% police stations was done in order to test the research instruments. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used, and its findings were presented using figures, tables and charts. The result findings gave a response rate of 75.5% which was acceptable for a research. The results also showed that 68.20% of the respondents were of the view that Codes of Conduct were good in the smooth running of police operations and supporting their OSH. The responses had a mean of 3.84 and standard deviation of .93. As presented in tables, the coefficient of determination R Square is .466 and R is .683 p-value p<.000 at .05 being the level of significance. This means 46.6% of the Occupational, Safety and Health of Police Officers are influenced by Legal Framework. Police Officers should know all legal requirements for they shall be useful when performing their tasks. The government will not fall into legal challenges when they have legally informed officers. Keywords: legal frameworks, Nairobi city county, National police service, police officers.

The emergence of connected discretion

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 370-387
Author(s):  
Bertil Rolandsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Good Judgment ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Police Practices

Purpose Previous studies repeatedly claim that social media challenge and even disrupt organizational boundaries conditioning discretionary work. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how police officers, drawing on institutionalized value logics, actively shape their awareness of how to use social media with discretion. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on semi-structured interviews with police officers from Sweden, the analysis explores similarities and variations in how they assess their discretionary awareness of how to manage social media potentials across different police practices. Supporting documents have been analyzed to put interviews into context. Findings The analysis shows how police officers justify their awareness of how to manage two social media potentials providing communicative efficiency and networking opportunities, by applying two justificatory modalities of momentary reconciliation. Contributing to previous research, findings show how these modalities accommodate tensions between different value logics urging officers to engage in situated problem solving or moderation of the intensity in different connections. By drawing on discretionary awareness about enduring value tensions, police officers maintain legitimate claims on social media discretion. The study also complements previous research depicting digital communication and discretion as mutually exclusive. Findings suggest that web-based digitalization like social media raises new demands of awareness of a connected discretion. Originality/value Previous research rarely analyses officers’ awareness of how to manage idiosyncratic social media challenges. By introducing the concept discretionary awareness, this study illuminates how arrangements of institutionalized value logics guide police officers in applying “good judgment” in day-to-day use of social media.

scholarly journals Enhancing food engineering education with interactive web-based simulations

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandros Koulouris ◽  
Georgios Aroutidis ◽  
Dimitrios Vardalis ◽  
Petros Giannoulis ◽  
Paraskevi Karakosta
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Educational Module ◽  
Food Engineering ◽  
Technology Students ◽  
System Variables ◽  
Energy Balances

In the traditional deductive approach in teaching any engineering topic, teachers would first expose students to the derivation of the equations that govern the behavior of a physical system and then demonstrate the use of equations through a limited number of textbook examples. This methodology, however, is rarely adequate to unmask the cause-effect and quantitative relationships between the system variables that the equations embody. Web-based simulation, which is the integration of simulation and internet technologies, has the potential to enhance the learning experience by offering an interactive and easily accessible platform for quick and effortless experimentation with physical phenomena.This paper presents the design and development of a web-based platform for teaching basic food engineering phenomena to food technology students. The platform contains a variety of modules (“virtual experiments”) covering the topics of mass and energy balances, fluid mechanics and heat transfer. In this paper, the design and development of three modules for mass balances and heat transfer is presented. Each webpage representing an educational module has the following features: visualization of the studied phenomenon through graphs, charts or videos, computation through a mathematical model and experimentation.  The student is allowed to edit key parameters of the phenomenon and observe the effect of these changes on the outputs. Experimentation can be done in a free or guided fashion with a set of prefabricated examples that students can run and self-test their knowledge by answering multiple-choice questions.

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