TY - JOUR
T1 - Addressing Police Occupational Safety during an Opioid Crisis
T2 - The Syringe Threat and Injury Correlates (STIC) Score
AU - Beletsky, Leo
AU - Abramovitz, Daniela
AU - Arredondo, Jaime
AU - Baker, Pieter
AU - Artamonova, Irina
AU - Marotta, Phil
AU - Mittal, Maria Luisa
AU - Rocha-Jimenez, Teresita
AU - Cepeda, Javier A.
AU - Morales, Mario
AU - Clairgue, Erika
AU - Patterson, Thomas A.
AU - Strathdee, Steffanie A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This work was supported by the Open Society Foundations Latin America Program [grant numbers OR2013-11352 & OR2014-18327], the National Institute on Drug Abuse [grant number R01DA039073], the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health [Award Numbers D43TW008633, R25TW009343, T32DA023356, and K01DA043421], and the UCSD Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) [International Pilot Grant NIAID 5P30AI036214], F31DA044794 (PI, Marotta).
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© 2019 American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Objective:To develop and validate syringe threat and injury correlates (STIC) score to measure police vulnerability to needlestick injury (NSI).Methods:Tijuana police officers (N = 1788) received NSI training (2015 to 2016). STIC score incorporates five self-reported behaviors: syringe confiscation, transportation, breaking, discarding, and arrest for syringe possession. Multivariable logistic regression was used to evaluate the association between STIC score and recent NSI.Results:Twenty-three (1.5%) officers reported NSI; higher among women than men (3.8% vs 1.2%; P = 0.007). STIC variables had high internal consistency, a distribution of 4.0, a mode of 1.0, a mean (sd) of 2.0 (0.8), and a median (interquartile range [IQR]) of 2.0 (1.2 to 2.6). STIC was associated with recent NSI; odds of NSI being 2.4 times higher for each point increase (P-value <0.0001).Conclusions:STIC score is a novel tool for assessing NSI risk and prevention program success among police.
AB - Objective:To develop and validate syringe threat and injury correlates (STIC) score to measure police vulnerability to needlestick injury (NSI).Methods:Tijuana police officers (N = 1788) received NSI training (2015 to 2016). STIC score incorporates five self-reported behaviors: syringe confiscation, transportation, breaking, discarding, and arrest for syringe possession. Multivariable logistic regression was used to evaluate the association between STIC score and recent NSI.Results:Twenty-three (1.5%) officers reported NSI; higher among women than men (3.8% vs 1.2%; P = 0.007). STIC variables had high internal consistency, a distribution of 4.0, a mode of 1.0, a mean (sd) of 2.0 (0.8), and a median (interquartile range [IQR]) of 2.0 (1.2 to 2.6). STIC was associated with recent NSI; odds of NSI being 2.4 times higher for each point increase (P-value <0.0001).Conclusions:STIC score is a novel tool for assessing NSI risk and prevention program success among police.
KW - law enforcement
KW - needle stick injury
KW - occupational safety
KW - police
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U2 - 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001754
DO - 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001754
M3 - Article
C2 - 31658223
AN - SCOPUS:85077222354
SN - 1076-2752
VL - 62
SP - 46
EP - 51
JO - Journal of occupational and environmental medicine
JF - Journal of occupational and environmental medicine
IS - 1
ER -