Clinical trial NCT05130879: Building Resilience @ Work Training Among Healthcare Workers
Official title: Evaluation of Building Resilience at Work (BRAW) Training Among Healthcare Workers: A Sequential Mixed Methods Design
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Resilience, Psychological
Keywords: Resilience training, Healthcare Workers
Lead sponsor: National University of Singapore
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-11-23
Enrollment: 500
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: 1:1
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Background Given that the challenges in adjusting to shifting work, physical workload and high-strung nature, healthcare workers often encounter high stress, emotional exhaustion, low empathy, fatigue and burnout, which, in turn, result in sickness, absence, and high turnover. Hence, building resilience for future adversity among healthcare workers in the workplace is necessary.

Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of the Building Resilience at Work (BRAW) on resilience, job engagement, intention to leave, employability, and work performance To explore healthcare workers' experience of the BRAW intervention.

Methods This study will evaluate the effectiveness of BRAW using a sequential mixed methods design in two phases. In phase I, a two-armed randomized controlled trial will be conducted to compare resilience, work engagement, coping skills, job satisfaction and life satisfaction with a waiting list control condition among 410 healthcare workers.

In phase II, the investigators will conduct a virtual individual interview to explore experiences on usability and acceptability after receiving the BRAW intervention using a sample of 33 healthcare workers.

Significance of research Considering the multifactorial and complexity of resilience at work in an increasingly dynamic healthcare environment, the content of resilience training can promote resilience, work engagement, coping skills, job satisfaction and life satisfaction among healthcare workers in order to reduce the turnover rate among healthcare workers in Singapore.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Healthcare workers aged 21 years or older
* Can read English
* Own and regularly use smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop
* Can access the internet

Exclusion Criteria:

* Previous diagnosis of psychosis, severe depression, personality disorder and substance abuse at any point in their life

Primary outcomes:
measure: Resilience
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Resilience
timeFrame: at 6 weeks
measure: Resilience
timeFrame: 12 weeks after training completes
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Work engagement
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Work engagement
timeFrame: at 6 weeks
measure: Work engagement
timeFrame: 12 weeks after training completes
measure: Intention to leave
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Intention to leave
timeFrame: at 6 weeks
measure: Intention to leave
timeFrame: 12 weeks after training completes
measure: Employability
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Employability
timeFrame: at 6 weeks
measure: Employability
timeFrame: 12 weeks after training completes
measure: Work performance
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Work performance
timeFrame: at 6 weeks
measure: Work performance
timeFrame: 12 weeks after training completes
measure: Usage and satisfaction of training
timeFrame: at 6 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Singapore
country: Singapore
facility: Ying Lau
Study officials:
affiliation: Chinese University of Hong Kong
name: Ying Lau, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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