- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT00246051
Comprehensive Police Fatigue Management Program
Testing the Effectiveness of a Comprehensive Fatigue Management for the Police
Police officers work some of the most demanding schedules known, which increases their risk of sleep deprivation and sleep disorders. The need to work frequent overnight shifts and long work weeks leads to acute and chronic partial sleep deprivation as well as misalignment of circadian phase. The public expects officers to perform flawlessly, but sleep deprivation and unrecognized sleep disorders significantly degrade cognition, alertness, reaction time and performance. In addition, both acute and chronic sleep deprivation adversely affect personal health, increasing the risk of gastrointestinal and heart disease, impairing glucose metabolism, and substantially increasing the risk of injury due to motor vehicle crashes.
We propose to conduct a randomized, prospective study of the effect on the safety, health, and performance of a police department of a Comprehensive Police Fatigue Management Program (CPFMP) consisting of the following interventions:
- identification and treatment of police with sleep disorders;
- caffeine re-education; and
- initiation of a sleep, health and safety educational program.
These interventions were chosen because we believe them most likely to lead to measurable improvements on work hours, health, safety, and job performance, and because they are cost effective. The success of the CPFMP will be assessed through an experimental comparison with a standard treatment group that will receive sleep education in the absence of any accompanying interventions. The overall goal of our team will be sleep health detection and treatment program that can be disseminated to practitioners, policymakers and researchers nationwide to reduce police officer fatigue and stress; enhance the ability of officers to cope with shift schedules; improve the health, safety and performance of law enforcement officers; and thereby improve public safety.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Massachusetts
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Active Sworn Police Officers
Exclusion Criteria:
- None
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Factorial Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Other: Sleep Hygiene Education
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An education program, consisting of materials from experts in the field of fatigue management, will be provided to all police officers in the intervention group.
Videotapes, slides, handouts and other educational material will be compiled to create a variety of information sources for police officers.
Examples of materials to be incorporated into this training program would be the Operation Healthy Sleep Training Video, powerpoint created by the Harvard Work Hours, Health and Safety Group and pamphlets provided by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
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Other: Expert-Led Sleep Disorders Screening and Treatment
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Expert-led sleep disorder screening and treatment will consist of visiting police stations and presenting an information session about Operation Healthy Sleep. The session will take place during work time. During the session, we will invite officers to take the Operation Healthy Sleep survey. All subjects that answer the survey indicating that they are at high risk on the Berlin Questionnaire will be contacted to arrange an initial appointment at our OSA research clinic. If they don't meet the criteria they will be disempanelled.
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Other: Online Sleep Disorders Screening
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Online sleep disorder screening will be available to all police officers nation-wide through the Operation Healthy Sleep survey.
All subjects that answer the survey questions indicating that they are at high risk of a sleep disorder will be notified either online following the completion of the survey or by email or a letter.
Treatment and follow up will not be conducted for individuals who screen positive on the online version of the Operation Healthy Sleep survey.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Motor vehicle accidents as a function of miles traveled
Time Frame: 05/2005 - 07/2009
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05/2005 - 07/2009
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Number of on-the-job injuries
Time Frame: 05/2005 - 07/2009
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05/2005 - 07/2009
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Number of citations issued
Time Frame: 05/2005 - 07/2009
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05/2005 - 07/2009
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Number of arrests made
Time Frame: 05/2005 - 07/2009
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05/2005 - 07/2009
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Number of warnings issued
Time Frame: 05/2005 - 07/2009
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05/2005 - 07/2009
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Number of officer-initiated vehicle assists
Time Frame: 05/2005 - 07/2009
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05/2005 - 07/2009
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Number of sick leave days
Time Frame: 05/2005 - 07/2009
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05/2005 - 07/2009
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Sleep duration
Time Frame: 05/2005 - 07/2009
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05/2005 - 07/2009
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Sleep quality
Time Frame: 05/2005 - 07/2009
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05/2005 - 07/2009
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Alertness
Time Frame: 05/2005 - 07/2009
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05/2005 - 07/2009
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Performance
Time Frame: 05/2005 - 07/2009
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05/2005 - 07/2009
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Job satisfaction
Time Frame: 05/2005 - 07/2009
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05/2005 - 07/2009
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Burnout
Time Frame: 05/2005 - 07/2009
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05/2005 - 07/2009
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Works hours
Time Frame: 05/2005 - 07/2009
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05/2005 - 07/2009
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Charles A. Czeisler, Ph.D., M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimate)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Mental Disorders
- Pathologic Processes
- Nervous System Diseases
- Respiratory Tract Diseases
- Apnea
- Respiration Disorders
- Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic
- Dyssomnias
- Neurologic Manifestations
- Occupational Diseases
- Sleep Apnea Syndromes
- Chronobiology Disorders
- Sleep Apnea, Obstructive
- Fatigue
- Disease
- Sleep Wake Disorders
- Restless Legs Syndrome
- Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
- Parasomnias
- Sleep Disorders, Circadian Rhythm
Other Study ID Numbers
- SL00067
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