Clinical trial NCT05205564: Stress and Coping, Resilience, and Compassion Fatigue of Front-line Nurses During COVID-19 Pandemic
Official title: The Correlation of Stress and Coping, Resilience, and Compassion Fatigue of Nurses Staying on Front-line During COVID-19 Outbreak in Taiwan
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: COVID-19 Pandemic
Stressor, Psychological
Mental Health Issue
Keywords: COVID-19
Front-line Nurses
Compassion Fatigue
Burnout
Stress Coping
Resilience
Lead sponsor: National Taiwan University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Taiwan University Hospital
First posted: 2022-01-25
Enrollment: 250
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Clinical nurses who have been or are still working in hospital, and have directly cared for COVID-19 confirmed cases from May 2021.

Brief summary: This is a cross-sectional research. The investigators plan to recruit about 250 front-line nurses who provided direct care to COVID-19 confirmed cases in a medical center in Taiwan. Online querstionnaires are used to collect the data. The relationship between variables such as stressors related to COVID-19, coping status, resilience, and compassion fatigue of participants will be analysis to provide the direction of nurses' mental health-related interventions.

Detailed description: This project aims to identify the prevalence of compassion fatigue and the coping strategies for the nurses who work on the frontline of healthcare and are responsible for caring for patients with COVID-19 in Taiwan. The investigators planed to carry a cross-sectional study by a reliable and valid online questionnaire to explore the stressors related to COVID-19, coping status, resilience, and compassion fatigue of nurses who had the experience of caring for the COVID-19 confirmed cases in a medical center during the community outbreak in Taiwan from May 2021. Online questionnaires are used to collect the data. About two hundred and fifty nurses will be recruited, and the data will be analyzed by descriptive statistics, correlation statistics and Hayes's PROCESS model 6. It is expected that the research results can understand the current status and relationship of compassion fatigue, resilience and the adaptability of clinical nurses who are caring for the COVID-19 confirmed cases. The results can be contributed to develop the direction of nurses' mental health-related interventions during pandemic of emerging contagious disease.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Above/include 20-year-old.
* Those who can operate mobile communication software or computers and can fill in online questionnaires.
* Clinical nurses who had provided nursing care for COVID-19 confirmed cases from May 2021.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Those who did not provide nursing care for COVID-19 confirmed cases.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Interaction effect between research variables
timeFrame: six months to collect and analysis data.
measure: Moderation effect between research variables
timeFrame: six months to collect and analysis data.
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Taipei City
country: Taiwan
facility: National Taiwan University Hospital
state: Zhongzheng Dist.
city: Taipei City
country: Taiwan
facility: National Taiwan University Hospital
state: Zhongzheng Dist.
city: Taipei
country: Taiwan
facility: School of Nursing of National Taiwan University
Study officials:
affiliation: National Taiwan University Hospital
name: YI-CHEN YEH, Bachelor
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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