为惩戒官员提供远程心理健康急救培训:试点研究
Pamela Valera1, Sarah Malarkey1, Madelyn Owens1
1Department of Urban-Global Public Health, Rutgers School of Public Health.
Psychological services
|April 11, 2024
概括
心理健康急救 (MHFA) 培训提高了惩戒官员在将被监禁人员转移到心理健康支持的信心. 虽然知识分数没有变化,但官员们发现,培训后更容易推.
科学领域:
- 校正医疗卫生的纠正卫生.
- 心理健康干预措施 心理健康干预
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
背景情况:
- 惩教官 (COs) 在识别和支持有心理健康挑战的囚犯方面发挥着至关重要的作用.
- 心理健康急救 (MHFA) 是一个基于证据的培训计划,旨在提高心理健康素养和应对能力.
- 需要评估MHFA培训在惩教设施的独特环境中的有效性.
研究的目的:
- 评估远程心理健康急救 (MHFA) 培训对惩戒官员 (CO) 的影响.
- 评估COs心理健康知识的变化以及他们对监禁人员进行心理健康转诊的感知方便.
- 探索COS对MHFA培训及其在惩戒机构中的实施的经验和看法.
主要方法:
- 一项远程MHFA干预研究与30名惩戒官员 (CO) 进行.
- 数据采集使用了测试前和测试后调查以及焦点小组会议.
- 用对样本t试验和威尔科克森签名等级试验进行定量分析,用现象学方法进行定性分析.
主要成果:
- 在培训前和培训后的心理健康知识得分中没有发现显著差异.
- COs报告说,在培训后,心理健康转诊的容易度显著增加 (Z = -2.087,p = .037).
- 焦点小组的主题表明MHFA辅导员的积极接待,承认需要在惩戒机构改善心理健康,并需要加强转诊过程.
结论:
- MHFA培训显著提高了惩戒官员的信心,并使监禁人员更容易获得心理健康服务.
- 尽管知识并没有显著增加,但改进的转诊方便性表明,MHFA在惩戒环境中的实际好处.
- MHFA培训是一个必要的干预措施,以配备CO的基本技能,以支持和转介在惩戒设施内经历心理健康危机的个人.
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