探索虚拟现实演习,帮助培训警察应对社区中的心理健康危机。

IF 1.1 4区 医学 Q3 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI:10.1002/cbm.2361
Lisa M Dario, Jesse D Saginor
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背景:大量的警民互动都涉及到平民出现心理健康危机,而执法部门往往是第一接触点。传统的培训方法只能为警察提供极少的机会来练习如何与平民互动,或发展和加强相关技能。虚拟现实(VR)为弥补这一不足提供了一个很有前景的途径,它能让警察沉浸在逼真、可控的环境中,从而帮助他们适应这些遭遇,并了解自己的反应:40名警官(约占所接触部门的五分之一)参加了虚拟现实心理健康培训情景。使用 28 项临场感问卷对警官在 VTE 中的沉浸感进行了评估,并使用改编的标准量表对他们的同理心和同情心进行了测量。研究采用费舍尔精确检验和斯皮尔曼相关性来分析沉浸感、同理心和同情心之间的关系:结果:尽管近一半的官员在课程开始时感到困惑或迷失方向,但大多数官员体验到了良好的沉浸感。官员们对非玩家角色的同情和共鸣程度较高。在沉浸感的特定方面(如感官参与)与移情之间发现了显著的相关性。费舍尔精确检验显示,在 VTE 中的身体互动与移情/同情之间存在密切联系:我们的研究结果表明,警察愿意并能够通过参与 VR 演练来了解他们对处于精神健康危机中的人所采取的应对措施,而且在这种情况下,他们能够同时表现出同情心和同理心。下一步将探索这种工具在加强现实生活中的应对能力方面的价值。
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Exploration of a virtual reality exercise to help train police with responding to mental health crises in the community.

Background: A substantial number of police-citizen interactions involve a civilian presenting in a mental health crisis, often with law enforcement as the first point of contact. Traditional training methods offer minimal opportunity for police to practice navigating such civilian interactions or to develop and strengthen relevant skills. Virtual reality (VR) offers a promising avenue for addressing this gap by immersing police officers in realistic, controlled environments that could help them to acclimatise to these encounters and understand their own reactions to them.

Aims: To examine the extent to which law enforcement officers become immersed in a virtual training environment (VTE), to assess their empathy and sympathy towards a non-player character (NPC) presenting with schizophrenic psychosis and how empathy and sympathy relate to virtual immersion.

Methods: Forty police officers-about a fifth of the department approached-participated in a VR mental health training scenario. Officers' immersion in the VTE was assessed using a 28-item Presence Questionnaire and their empathy and sympathy were measured using adapted standard scales. The study employed Fisher's Exact Test and Spearman's correlation to analyse the relationships between immersion, empathy and sympathy.

Results: Most officers experienced good levels of immersion, although nearly half felt confused or disoriented at the beginning of the session. Officers reported moderate levels of sympathy and higher empathy towards a non-player character. Significant correlations were found between specific aspects of immersion (e.g. sensory engagement) and empathy. Fisher's Exact Test revealed strong associations between physical interactions in the VTE and empathy/sympathy.

Conclusions: Our findings show that police are willing and able to engage in a VR exercise to learn about their response to people in a mental health crisis and that, in such circumstances, they can be both sympathetic and empathic. Next steps will be exploration of the value of such a tool to enhance real-life responding.

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期刊介绍: Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health – CBMH – aims to publish original material on any aspect of the relationship between mental state and criminal behaviour. Thus, we are interested in mental mechanisms associated with offending, regardless of whether the individual concerned has a mental disorder or not. We are interested in factors that influence such relationships, and particularly welcome studies about pathways into and out of crime. These will include studies of normal and abnormal development, of mental disorder and how that may lead to offending for a subgroup of sufferers, together with information about factors which mediate such a relationship.
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