Project SHIELD 2.0: Police Education to Support Public Health in Kentucky
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
About this trial
The project is a pragmatic, quasi-experimental hybrid type II effectiveness-implementation trial of a structural HIV prevention intervention to address police behavior (arrests and referrals) and ultimately improve health among people who use drugs. The study involves a novel implementation strategy that engages behavioral health workers as "local champions" in the delivery of an evidence-based police education program (SHIELD training intervention). In addition to examining implementation outcomes, primary outcomes focus on assessing effectiveness of the intervention among police (specifically in reducing drug-related arrests and promoting referrals to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) treatment. The investigator's overarching effectiveness hypothesis is that after law enforcement organizations receive the SHIELD training intervention, the organizations will be more likely to refer people who use drugs to MOUD treatment and other health and social services, rather than arresting for low level possession offenses. The study will be conducted across different counties in Appalachian Kentucky.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
An adult over the age of 18 years old
Currently employed in a law enforcement agency in one of the nine counties participating in the trial
Disqualifiers
Only adult participants over the age of 18 will be recruited into the study, and the investigators will not restrict eligibility based on gender, race, or any other socio-demographic characteristics.
Trial design
Design model
Single group
Treatments tested in this trial
SHIELD 2.0
BehavioralSHIELD is an evidence-based police education training program that has been demonstrated to change police behavior (arrest and referrals) and improve outcomes among police and people who use drugs in NIH-funded and other research studies. The original intervention delivery relied on academic teams, limiting sustainability and scalability. The investigator's novel "SHIELD 2.0" implementation strategy aims to address these limitations by capacitating the local behavioral health workforce to implement the steps of the SHIELD process, specifically to complete the delivery of the SHIELD intervention to local police officers.
Treatment groups
150 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment groupGroup A: SHIELD 2.0Experimental treatment 1 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Frequency of Law enforcement officer self-reported referrals to MOUD
Time frame
From baseline up to 12 months post SHIELD training2
Frequency of Law enforcement officer self-reported drug-related arrests
Time frame
From baseline up to 12 months post SHIELD trainingSecondary outcomes
1
Law enforcement officer self-reported stress as assessed by survey
Survey scores range from 0-12, with lower scores indicating a lower level of stress
Time frame
From baseline up to 12 months post SHIELD training2
Law enforcement officer self-reported burnout as assessed by survey
Survey scores range from 0-24, with lower scores indicating a lower level of burnout
Time frame
From baseline up to 12 months post SHIELD training3
Law enforcement officer self-reported job satisfaction as assessed by survey
Survey scores range from 0-6, with lower scores indicating a lower level of job satisfaction
Time frame
From baseline up to 12 months post SHIELD trainingSponsors and contacts
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Lead sponsor
University of Kentucky
Collaborator
Northeastern University
Collaborator
San Diego State University
Collaborator
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Collaborator
Brown University
Collaborator
University of California, San Diego
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov