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ENTRY FITNESS LEVELS AND SUBSEQUENT ACADEMY PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES IN MASSACHUSETTS POLICE RECRUITS-A VALIDATION STUDY
Forma
Saúde ocupacional
Academia de Polícia
Flexão de braço
Recrutas
Author
Affilliation
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA / The Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA / Department of Health and Human Physiological Sciences, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA.
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA / Occupational Medicine, Northwest Permanente Physicians and Surgeons, PC, Portland, OR USA.
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Presidência. Coordenação de Saúde do Trabalhador. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA / Faculty of Physical Education of the University of Brasilia, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, Brasilia, DF, Brasil.
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA / Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus.
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA / The Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA / Occupational Medicine, Northwest Permanente Physicians and Surgeons, PC, Portland, OR USA.
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Presidência. Coordenação de Saúde do Trabalhador. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA / Faculty of Physical Education of the University of Brasilia, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, Brasilia, DF, Brasil.
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA / Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus.
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA / The Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Abstract
Police academies require that their recruit officers possess sufficient fitness to successfully engage in law enforcement activities. In a previous retrospective study, we found recruits with poor entry level fitness had lower graduation. We sought to validate our findings prospectively, assessing the probability of successful completion and graduation from a police academy as a function of recruits baseline fitness level at the time of academy entry; and validate our previous suggested minimum and target entry fitness criteria respectively prior to acceeptance to police academy. Prospective cohort study. Recuit officers 18 years of age and older who entered police academies throughout massachusetts bduring 2015-2016. Entrery fitness levels were quantified from the following measures, as recorded at the start of each training class: body composition, push-ups, sit-ups, sit-and-reach, and 1.5-mile run-time. The primary outcome of interest was the odds of not successfully graduating frm an academy. Reasons for failure were also collected. We used generalized linear mixed models in order to fit logistic regression models with random intercepts for assessing the probability of not graduating, based on entry-level fitness. The fitness measures most strongly associated with academy failure were lesser number of pushups completed (odds ratio [OR]=6.7,95% confidence interval [CI] (2.52, 17.85), for 20 versus 41-60 push-ups) and run times (OR=4.4, 95% CI (1.88, 10.35), [1.5 mile run time of 15'20''-12'33]. On average, successful graduates are leaner and have better overrall entry fitness performance results. Prospective results supported our previously recommended fitness criteria. Baseline pushups and 1.5-mile run-time were successfully validated as predictors of successful academy graduation.
Keywords in Portuguese
Capacidade aeróbicaForma
Saúde ocupacional
Academia de Polícia
Flexão de braço
Recrutas
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