A longitudinal assessment of the road to mental readiness training among municipal police

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dc.contributor.authorCarleton, R. Nicholas
dc.contributor.authorKorol, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorMason, Julia, E.
dc.contributor.authorHozempa, Kadie
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Gregory, S.
dc.contributor.authorJones, Nicholas, A.
dc.contributor.authorDobson, Keith, S.
dc.contributor.authorSzeto, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorBailey, Suzanne
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-07T17:13:07Z
dc.date.available2023-03-07T17:13:07Z
dc.date.issued2018-06-18
dc.description© 2018 the Author(s). published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis group.this is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.en_US
dc.description.abstractPolice agencies increasingly implement training programs to protect mental health. The Road to Mental Readiness (R2MR) program was designed by the Canadian military to increase mental health resilience. A version of R2MR was adapted for municipal police by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC). The current research was designed to assess the R2MR program, as adapted and delivered by the MHCC, in a municipal police sample. Participants were 147 Canadian police agency employees (57% women) who received a single R2MR training session. Participants completed pre- and post-training self-report questionnaires, and follow-ups at 6 and 12 months. The questionnaires assessed mental health symptoms, work engagement, resiliency, mental health knowledge, and stigma. Multilevel modeling analyses assessed for within-participant changes over time. The results were consistent with other single session interventions; specifically, there were no significant changes in mental health symptoms, resilience, or work engagement (p > .05). There were small, but significant (p < .05), reductions in stigma at post-training that may facilitate help-seeking among police; relatedly, in open-ended response fields, participants commonly described the training as helpful for changing attitudes and improving communication. More engagement with the material may produce larger, sustained gains, but more published research is critically needed.en_US
dc.description.authorstatusFacultyen_US
dc.description.peerreviewyesen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipR. N. Carleton’s research is supported in part by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through a New Investigator Award [grant number FRN: 285489].en_US
dc.identifier.citationCarleton, R. N., Korol, S., Mason, J. E., Hozempa, K., Anderson, G. S., Jones, N. A., Dobson, K. S., Szeto, A., & Bailey, S. (2018). A Longitudinal Assessment of the Road to Mental Readiness Among a Canadian Municipal Police Sample. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 47, 508-528. https://doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2018.1475504en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2018.1475504
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/15836
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Groupen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectresilencyen_US
dc.subjecttrainingen_US
dc.subjectRoad to Mental Readiness (R2MR)en_US
dc.subjectstigmaen_US
dc.titleA longitudinal assessment of the road to mental readiness training among municipal policeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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