Technology-Enabled Intervention to Enhance Mindfulness, Safety, and Health Promotion Among Corrections Professionals: Protocol for a Prospective Quasi-Experimental Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Correction professionals are a highly stressed workforce with heightened risks for depression, suicide, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and injury. These professionals, largely hidden from view, have received little study concerning means to improve their safety, health, and well-being. In other settings, mindfulness has resulted in lowered stress, along with other benefits. We hypothesized that a program that promoted mindfulness combined with more typical health and safety components could uniquely benefit corrections professionals.

Objective

This project will assess a novel scalable, self-administered program to enhance the mindfulness, safety, and health of a vulnerable worker group.

Methods

In partnership with the Oregon Department of Corrections, we

SUBMITTER: Elliot D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10559194 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature