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Record W4417436612 · doi:10.35502/jcswb.499

Health literacy training for police recruits

2025· article· en· W4417436612 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Heather M. Ross

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Community Safety and Well-Being · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealth Literacy and Information Accessibility
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHealth literacyLiteracyPublic healthHealth educationOccupational safety and healthPresentation (obstetrics)Training (meteorology)Sample (material)

Abstract

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Police officers are uniquely positioned in that they are often the first on scene to respond following health-related calls for help. As a result, they often encounter victims and vulnerable community members at risk for adverse outcomes and low health literacy. In response, a large urban police department in the Southwestern United States, the Phoenix Police Department, implemented a 60-minute didactic Health Literacy Training for Public Safety Professionals presentation to educate recruits in the police academy about health literacy universal precautions and how to apply them specifically to police practice. To evaluate the training’s impact, participating recruits completed pre- and post-training surveys assessing health literacy knowledge, self-efficacy, and planned use of health literacy universal precautions in victim encounters. Survey responses were then analysed using paired sample t-tests, and crosstabs analysis was performed to assess differences by participants’ age, gender, and education level. In total, six trainings were delivered to 139 police recruits, and there were significant improvements in their knowledge of health literacy, self-efficacy, and intended frequency of use of communication techniques (p < 0.001). There was no significant association between recruits’ age, gender, and education level on post-training survey responses. Following the health literacy training, the improved knowledge, self-efficacy, and planned behaviour across age, gender, and education history supports the benefit of health literacy training for all policerecruits. Moreover, findings support the notion that evidence-based and standardized health literacy trainings should be widely incorporated into the education of public safety professionals.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.012
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.855
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0120.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0040.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.073
GPT teacher head0.475
Teacher spread0.402 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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