Clinical trial NCT06519643: Building Your Successful Nursing Career
Official title: Building Your Successful Nursing Career: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Career Planning Mobile Application for Male Nurses - a Randomized Double-blind Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Nurse's Role
Gender
Professional Burnout
Keywords: male nurse
career plan
mobile application (App)
intervention study
randomized controlled trial
Lead sponsor: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Chang Gung University
First posted: 2024-07-25
Enrollment: 120
Sex: MALE
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The investigators will compare the pre- and post-test differences between the experimental group and the control group. Both the experimental and control groups will fill in the structured questionnaires online at the time before the intervention (Baseline data) and at 0, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months after the intervention.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study aims to evaluate a career planning mobile App specifically tailored for male nurses.This three-year experimental project aims to recruit 120 male nurses (60）in the experimental group and 60 in the control group). Employing a prospective double-blind randomized controlled trial (RCT) design, the study will include six follow-up points (pre-intervention, post-intervention at 0, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months) to examine the effectiveness of career self-efficacy, career adaptive behaviors, occupational resilience, career success, and career continuity intentions of male nurses over time. The repeated measures data will be analyzed with the intention-to-treat analysis method and General Estimating Equations (GEE). This research represents an innovative development of the world's first theoretically grounded career planning mobile App for male nurses.The study's results can serve as a valuable reference for future career planning initiatives in nursing practice and education.

Detailed description: This study is a longitudinal study that adopts a double-blind randomized controlled trial (RCT). The study will recruit 120 male nurses and allocate them into the intervention group and the control group in a 1:1 ratio (60 in each group). Based on Super's (1957) career development theory and the four-stage career classification, the participating male nurses will be divided into the exploration stage (experience ≤ 2 years), establishment stage (experience 2-5 years), and maintenance stage (experience 5-15 years), with career stage as a confounding factor. The study uses 1:1:1 stratified randomization to ensure that the number of cases in the experimental group (n=60, exploration stage: establishment stage: maintenance stage = 20:20:20) and the control group (n=60) is the same, as well as the homogeneity of the career stage variables of the two groups. All included subjects will undergo an online pre-test (T0) before allocation, and then enter the experimental group or the control group according to the random assignment results. Both groups will be invited to use the "Building Your Successful Nursing Career" App for six months, with the experimental group receiving the full career planning mobile application intervention and two online Career Mentoring Programs, while the control group receives a sham treatment. Both groups will undergo five follow-up online data collections (0, 6, 12, 18, and 24 month post-intervention). The effectiveness of the career planning mobile application intervention on male nurses' career self-efficacy, career adaptive behaviors, occupational resilience, career success, and career continuity intentions will be examined using the intention-to-treat analysis method and General Estimating Equations (GEE).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Male nursing staff currently engaged in clinical nursing work.
2. Care Within 15 years of working experience.
3. Have a mobile phone with Internet access.
4. Have clear consciousness and can understand and answer the researcher's questions.
5. Audible and understandable Or understand Chinese.
6. Willing to participate in this study and sign the subject consent form.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Unwilling to participate in this study.
2. Those who cannot download the App.

Primary outcomes:
measure: career self-efficacy
timeFrame: before intervention and 0, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months post-intervention
measure: career adaptive behaviors
timeFrame: before intervention and 0, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months post-intervention
measure: occupational resilience
timeFrame: before intervention and 0, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months post-intervention
measure: career success
timeFrame: before intervention and 0, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months post-intervention
measure: career continuity intentions
timeFrame: before intervention and 0, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months post-intervention
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Chang Gung University
name: Chao Yi-Ping, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Chang Gung University
name: Chiang Yueh-Tao, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
name: DAI HUNG -DA, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: New Taipei Municipal Tu-Cheng Hospital
name: Shen Yung-Chao, M.S.
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Hsin Sheng College of Medical Care and Management
name: Lou Jiunn-Horng, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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