Implementation of online opioid overdose prevention, recognition and response trainings for professional first responders: Year 1 survey results.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This article reports on the first web-based implementation of an opioid-overdose prevention, recognition and response training for professional first responders. The training was disseminated nationally over one listserv in November 2014. The same year, following Act 139, which mandated the provision of an online training for police officers in Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Department of Health approved the training. It was subsequently adopted as the primary training tool for police and other first responders in Pennsylvania and has been used as a training tool by first responders nationally.

Methods

Analyses employed descriptive statistics to report characteristics of a sample of 387 professional first responders who completed a survey about their experience wi

SUBMITTER: Simmons J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5140716 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature