Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training and impact on mental illness and substance use-related stigma among law enforcement
In: Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, Jg. 5 (2022-12-01), Heft 100099-
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Limited empirical data and research exists about stigmatizing attitudes and perceptions held by law enforcement officers towards persons with mental illness and substance use issues. Pre- and post-training survey data from 92 law enforcement personnel who attended a 40-hour Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training was used to investigate training-related changes in mental illness stigma and substance use stigma. Training participant's mean age was 38.35 ± 9.50 years, majority white non-Hispanic race/ethnicity (84.2%), male gender (65.2%), and reported job category as road patrol (86.9%). Pre-training, 76.1% endorsed at least one stigmatizing attitude towards people with mental illness, and 83.7% held a stigmatizing attitude towards those with substance use problems. Poisson regression revealed that working road patrol (RR=0.49, p
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Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training and impact on mental illness and substance use-related stigma among law enforcement
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Nick, Gilbert A. ; Williams, Sharifa ; Lekas, Helen-Maria ; Pahl, Kerstin ; Blau, Chloe ; Kamin, Don ; Fuller-Lewis, Crystal |
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Zeitschrift: | Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, Jg. 5 (2022-12-01), Heft 100099- |
Veröffentlichung: | Elsevier, 2022 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 2772-7246 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.dadr.2022.100099 |
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