Clinical trial NCT06343584: Are Personal Smartphones Hurting Work-Life Balance for Nurse Managers?
Official title: Are Personal Smartphones Hurting Work-Life Balance for Nurse Managers?
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Burnout
Lead sponsor: Methodist Health System
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-04-02
Enrollment: 6
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: * Participant must hold the title of Nurse Manager or Interim Nurse Manager at Methodist Mansfield Medical Center
* Participant must have greater than 50 direct reports

Brief summary: For leadership positions with only a handful of staff under their direct chain of command, this may not be all-consuming and detrimental to work-life balance. But for NMs with upwards of 100 direct reports, this can make for a never-ending stream of contact points. This study will implement several communication and behavioral strategies to determine how using provided smartphone tools impact work-life balance and professional burnout.

Detailed description: The study will be conducted over a six-month period using a quasi-experimental Pre-test/Post-test design using Stamm's (2009) ProQOL Scale. This study is being done as a pilot study with a small sample size. NMs will be recruited as volunteers for participation in the study with an anticipated six-month time commitment. Upon receipt of informed consent, participants will be divided into two groups. Group 1 will receive a list of suggested tools used to decrease the amount of smartphone interruptions after business hours (Appendix B) and Group 2 will receive a work-issued smartphone with instructions for use (Appendix C). Both groups will use a pre-post test format designed to compare the outcomes between the two groups. Post-study analysis will compare pre- and post-tests within each group and will compare Group 1 and Group 2 post-intervention outcomes.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Participant must hold the title of Nurse Manager or Interim Nurse Manager at Methodist Mansfield Medical Center
* Participant must have greater than 50 direct reports

Exclusion Criteria:

* Participant expects to separate employment with Methodist Health System prior to the conclusion of the study
* Participant does not use their personal smartphone to communicate with direct reports

Primary outcomes:
measure: • Impact of smartphone tool utilization will be measured using a pre-study survey and post-study survey using the Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) Scale (Stamm, 2009).
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: • Participants in Group 1 will self-report on the post-study survey (Appendix D1) the number of tools implemented during the study duration.
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: • Participants in Group 1 will self-report on the post-study survey (Appendix D1) the frequency of tool utilization during the study duration using a Likert scale.
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: • Participants in Group 2 will self-report on the post-study survey (Appendix D2) using the ProQOL Scale.
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: • Responses to the post-study survey from participants in Group 2 will be compared to participants in Group 1 to determine if utilizing a separate work smartphone during business hours has a greater improvement on work-life balance and burnout.
timeFrame: 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Mansfield
country: United States
facility: Methodist Mansfield Medical Center
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: Methodist Health System
name: Brooks Williams, DNP
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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