@article{ref1,
title="Modeling the effects of crisis intervention team (CIT) training for police officers: how knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy drive de-escalation skills and referral decisions",
journal="International journal of law and psychiatry",
year="2022",
author="Compton, Michael T. and Krishan, Shaily and Broussard, Beth and Bakeman, Roger and Fleischmann, Matthew H. and Hankerson-Dyson, Dana and Husbands, Letheshia and Stewart, Tarianna and D'Orio, Barbara and Watson, Amy C.",
volume="83",
number="",
pages="e101814-e101814",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Prior research on Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for police officers has demonstrated improvements in knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and stigma, but how these factors work together to influence behavioral outcomes like de-escalation skills and referral decisions remains unstudied. <br><br>METHOD: 251 CIT-trained and 335 non-CIT officers completed in-depth surveys measuring these six constructs. We used structural equation modeling to test fit of the data to our hypothesized model and made indicated changes to improve fit. <br><br>RESULTS: An alternate 8-path model (with three paths originally hypothesized being removed) fit reasonably well, and allowing path coefficients to differ for CIT and non-CIT groups resulted in models with similar fit statistics. <br><br>CONCLUSION: CIT training enhances knowledge and attitudes, both of which have beneficial effects on stigma. Though an important outcome itself, lower stigma does not have an effect on de-escalation skills and referral decisions, though self-efficacy clearly does.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0160-2527",
doi="10.1016/j.ijlp.2022.101814",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2022.101814"
}