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Occupational Health 2018 Journal of Nursing and Health Studies
ISSN: 2574-2825 Page 69
May 28-29, 2018
London, UK
4th Edition of International Conference on
Occupational Health and
Safety
J Nurs Health Stud 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C2-006
Background: The study examined the feasibility of implementing
an innovative stress-resilience intervention using self-regulation,
tomodify psychological stress, autonomic response to stress and
cardiovascular disease risk factors in police officers.
Methods: Subjects included police officers age 21 to 65 years
(n=40). To self-regulate responses to stress, officers were
educated on techniques to manage emotional and physical
responses to stress, 2) practiced self-regulation and 3) used iPad
to practice techniques to build coherence associated with heart
rate variability. Pre to post-difference in coherence was tested
using a one-sample two-sided t-test. To evaluate relationships
between differences in coherence and differences in outcomes,
Pearson correlation coefficients (r) were calculated. Correlations
among variables were examined.
Results: Post intervention officers showed reduction in diastolic
blood pressure (M = -6.8, SD= 9.3, p = .02, d = 0.73), correlation
coefficient values for the relationship between differences in
coherence and differences in outcomes were large for Impact
of Event Scale Avoidance subscale (r = -.58, p = .10), Impact
of Event Scale total score (r = -.55, p = .13), and clinically
significant changes were found for both the sympathetic and
parasympathetic contributors of heart rate variability.
Conclusion: Results support post intervention change and these
methods may well be applicable to other high stress occupations
including nursing. This data is also necessary to support policy
change
Resilience in police
Sandra L Ramey, Yelena Perkhounkova, Maria Hein and Amanda Anderson
University of Iowa, USA