Clinical trial NCT04234503: Ethical Activity Profile of Nurse Managers -Testing Ethics Quarter as an Intervention
Official title: Ethical Activity Profile of Nurse Managers -Testing Ethics Quarter as an Intervention
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Ethics
Keywords: nurse managers
ethical activity profile
Lead sponsor: Turku University Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER_GOV
First posted: 2020-01-21
Enrollment: 341
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: The aim of this study is:

1. to test a new ethics educational intervention for nurse mangers, Ethics Quarter (EQ) and
2. to measure the feasibility and the usability of the EQ

The detailed research questions and hypothesis of this study are as follows:

1. Is EQ effective in increasing NMs' ethics knowledge?
2. Is EQ effective in increasing NMs' influencing ethics issues?
3. Is EQ effective in increasing NMs' ethics research implementing?
4. Is EQ effective in increasing NMs' ethics problem identifying?
5. Is EQ effective in increasing NMs' ethics problem solving?

   H 1-5: It is hypothesized that participating into EQ promotes NM's ethics knowledge, influencing ethics issues, ethics research implementing, ethics problem identifying and ethics problem solving compared to comparisons.
6. What are NM's perceptions of feasibility and usability of the EQ?

The ultimate goal is to strengthen nurse managers' ethical activity profile and create a new, modern way to promote ethical management of nursing.

Detailed description: A new educational intervention, EQ, for nurse managers has developed. Intervention development has evaluated by using criteria for complex interventions in health care (CReDECI)- guideline (Möhler et al. 2012). EQ intervention is based on distance learning method and it consists of 12 educational packages included in the virtual learning environment www.etiikanvartti.fi.

Effectiveness of EQ intervention will be tested by using an individually randomized controlled trial with baseline-, post- and follow-up-measurements.The intervention group will participate in the educational EQ intervention and the control group will not participate.

Data will be collected via the membership register of the Union of Health and Social Care Professionals in Finland (Tehy) trade union. This union is a national interest group for nurses, nurse managers and advanced consultants/specialists in the social and health-care sector having a Master's degree (nursing science or related) or registered nurses degree.

Based on statistical power analysis, the required sample size for the study will be 87 NMs at both groups, at 80%, 0.05 significance level.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Working as a nurse manager
* Finnish-speaking

Exclusion Criteria:

* Unwilling to provide consent

Primary outcomes:
measure: Changes in nurse managers' ethical activity profile level.
timeFrame: Baseline, week 6 and week 10
measure: Changes in nurse managers' ethical activity profile level.
timeFrame: Baseline, week 6 and week 10
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Changes in nurse managers' knowledge level.
timeFrame: Baseline, week 6 and week 10
measure: Nurse managers' perceptions of the feasibility and usability of EthicsQuarter.
timeFrame: Week 6
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Turku
country: Finland
facility: Finland
Study officials:
References:
citation: Laukkanen L, Suhonen R, Poikkeus T, Loyttyniemi E, Leino-Kilpi H. The effectiveness of the Ethics Quarter intervention on the ethical activity profile of nurse managers: A randomized controlled trial. J Nurs Manag. 2022 Oct;30(7):2126-2137. doi: 10.1111/jonm.13411. Epub 2021 Jul 21.