Clinical trial NCT02406755: H-Senses Project - Self Care Mediated by the Senses
Official title: H-SENSES PROJECT Self Care Mediated by the Senses: Assessing the Impact on Self-esteem, Stress and Well-being of Female Health Professionals
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Stress
Lead sponsor: Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2015-04-02
Enrollment: 123
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Randomized clinical trial about self-care mediated by the senses in female health professionals and their influence on stress, self-esteem, mood states, life satisfaction and levels of salivary cortisol.

Detailed description: The work environment of health professionals is commonly considered stressful, given that they need to deal with difficult situations that include pain, risk of death, the decisions that need to be fast and accurate, and conflicts generated in interpersonal relationships. There is an ongoing discussion that the investigators need to care for those who care, however, there are few interventions studied and validated to effectively reduce the stress of these professionals that resonate in states of well-being. There is little room for discussion of this topic during the workday, as well as to learn techniques and measures for effective stress management. This study aims to explore the relationship between well-being, self-esteem and stress of women health professionals, and compare three self-care interventions mediated by the senses.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Professional healthcare;
* working in healthcare or administrative area in hospital
* Voluntary participation;
* Signed in term of free and informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Evaluation with relevant dermatological findings diagnosed by a dermatologist;
* Work at nighttime or in alternate periods (because of known chronobiological changes that would affect the study of cortisol, one of the outcomes considered in the study);
* who are breastfeeding;
* Be pregnant

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in perceived stress (Lipp Stress Inventory and Symptoms of Stress List)
timeFrame: baseline, 30 days, 60 days
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in cortisol levels
timeFrame: baseline, 30 days, 60 days
Other outcomes:
measure: Changes in Satisfaction with life (Satisfaction With Life Scale)
timeFrame: baseline, 30 days, 60 days
measure: Changes in Positive and Negative Affective
timeFrame: baseline, 30 days, 60 days
measure: Change in perceived self-esteem (Rosenberg's self-esteem Scale)
timeFrame: baseline, 30 days, 60 days
Locations:
city: São Paulo
country: Brazil
facility: Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
Study officials:
affiliation: Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein - Albert Einstein Jewish Institute for Education and Research
name: Eliseth R Leão, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
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citation: Leao ER, Dal Fabbro DR, Oliveira RB, Santos IR, Victor ED, Aquarone RL, Andrade CB, Ribeiro VF, Oliveira RC, Friedlander R, Ferreira DS. Stress, self-esteem and well-being among female health professionals: A randomized clinical trial on the impact of a self-care intervention mediated by the senses. PLoS One. 2017 Feb 27;12(2):e0172455. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172455. eCollection 2017.