Law Enforcement Officers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, and Use of Suicide Intervention Behaviors

Osteen, Philip; Oehme, Karen; Woods, MaKenna; Forsman, R. Lane; Morris, Robert C.; Frey, Jodi Jacobson

doi:10.1086/712495

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“…The results of these models uncover potentially important relationships between factors related to police officer suicide training. Given the contribution to the ongoing discussion in the literature (e.g., Arensman et al, 2016; Marzano et al, 2016; Osteen et al, 2020), and despite less than stellar model fit, we report these results in hopes of continuing the discussion within the literature on officer training related to suicide.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Osteen et al, (2020) conducted an anonymous cross‐sectional survey of 500 LEO from around the country with respect to their knowledge, attitudes, self‐efficacy, and engagement in suicide intervention behaviors. Although LEO expressed positive attitudes toward managing suicidal incidents, 10% of respondents reported that suicide prevention should not be a LEO responsibility.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although LEO expressed positive attitudes toward managing suicidal incidents, 10% of respondents reported that suicide prevention should not be a LEO responsibility. And more than 50% felt that suicide was not preventable (Osteen et al, 2020). LEO also reported feeling resentful and defensive toward situations calling upon them to deal with suicidal incidents (Osteen et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…And more than 50% felt that suicide was not preventable (Osteen et al, 2020). LEO also reported feeling resentful and defensive toward situations calling upon them to deal with suicidal incidents (Osteen et al, 2020). A third of the LEO felt that “there was no way of knowing who will kill themselves,” and the majority of the LEO in this study felt that only half the suicide situations they were presented with were preventable (Osteen et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, Osteen et al, (2020) found that many LEO reported that their knowledge about how to deal with suicidal situations was high while factual knowledge was, in fact, quite lower. This coincides with the findings of Osteen et al, (2014), who found that despite LEO sense of self‐efficacy being high their lack of knowledge about warning signs and risk factors left LEO ill‐equipped to effectively deal with citizens in mental health crisis.…”

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Law Enforcement Officers’ (LEO) interactions with people facing mental health crises have risen exponentially since the era of deinstitutionalization. On average, about 10% of the individuals law enforcement interacts with daily have mental health challenges. Several factors influence the outcome of these interactions, not least of which is an officer's role as a gatekeeper as well as their training related to people with mental health challenges. We hypothesized that participating in the online QPR Training for Law Enforcement Officers would be associated with improved knowledge about suicide, attitudes to suicide and suicide intervention, and self‐efficacy. Additionally, we hypothesized that these outcomes would be associated with greater use of intervention skills when encountering individuals at risk for suicide in the community. Results of our longitudinal analysis find that most of the participating officers reported some prior training and yet demonstrated statistically significant improvements in knowledge and attitudes after controlling for previous training. No significant changes were observed in LEO’s use of intervention skills following training. We conclude by suggesting that there is substantial need for increased training; and offering possible conceptual and empirical explanations for the observed results.

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Examining Individual and Service Delivery Context Variables and Their Association with the Effectiveness of QPR Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training

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Self‐efficacy, prosocial impact, and self‐legitimacy as psychological predictors of judicial officer performance

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The current work explores three potential facilitators of judicial performance. Participants in a state‐wide survey of judicial officers (response rate = 33.9%) completed self‐report measures of self‐efficacy, prosocial impact, and self‐legitimacy as well as subjectively perceived performance. Objective performance data collected by the state court administrative office was then merged with the survey data. Latent variable analysis confirmed the three predictor constructs’ separability and, although all four concepts were correlated, self‐efficacy was the sole independent predictor of subjective performance. An unplanned mediation analysis suggested significant indirect effects of self‐legitimacy and prosocial impact on subjectively assessed performance through self‐efficacy. Regarding objective performance, self‐efficacy emerged as the only significant correlate or predictor. The research therefore empirically demonstrates the empirical distinctiveness of self‐efficacy, prosocial impact, and self‐legitimacy and provides some exploratory support for a causal model whereby self‐efficacy provides the proximal impact on performance but is itself facilitated by prosocial impact and self‐legitimacy.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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Law Enforcement Officers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, and Use of Suicide Intervention Behaviors

Cited by 4 publications

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Suicide intervention training with law enforcement officers

Suicide intervention training with law enforcement officers

Examining Individual and Service Delivery Context Variables and Their Association with the Effectiveness of QPR Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training

Self‐efficacy, prosocial impact, and self‐legitimacy as psychological predictors of judicial officer performance

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