Clinical trial NCT05555082: Can Massage During One Year Improve Health in Health-care Providers Working in Hospital
Official title: Can Massage During One Year Improve Health in Health-care Providers Working in Hospital
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Massage Therapy
Health-care Workers
Quality of Life
Psychological Distress
Lead sponsor: University Hospital, Linkoeping
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-09-26
Enrollment: 25
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: 50 health care professionals will receive massage monthly during 12 months. Massage will not be given during summer holiday. Thus, 30 minutes of massage will be given 10 times.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The overall aim of this pilot study is to investigate the effect, "feasibility" and experiences of regular massage over 12 months on the mental and physical health of healthcare professionals, as well as the frequency of layoffs, sick leave and reported patient safety risk cases, as well as health economics

Detailed description: A pilot and "feasibility" study with pre-post design. 50 health care professionals from the Medical Clinic, Vrinnevi Hospital in Norrköping are included. The participants perform 10 30 minute sessions of classic Swedish massage during 12 months by a certified masseur. Mental and physical health data is collected using questionnaires, blood and body weight. Data on layoffs, sick leave and patient safety risks are taken from the hospital's data register. Data regarding the participants' experience of receiving massages is collected during interviews.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Working at least for 50 % of fulltime

Main task working with patient care in the hospital ward

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Primary outcomes:
measure: Symptoms of stress
timeFrame: change in Percieved Stress Scale-10 mean score from baseline (start of massage) to 12 months (end of massage). Score can range from 0 to 40. A higher score means more stress
measure: Symptoms of depression
timeFrame: change in Patient Health Questionnaire-9 mean score from baseline (start of massage) to 12 months (end of massage). Score can range from 0 to 27. A higher score means more depressive symptoms
measure: Sleeping problems
timeFrame: change in Insomnia Severity Index mean score from baseline (start of massage) to 12 months (end of massage). Score can range from 0 to 28. A higher score means more sleeping problmes
measure: Symptoms of anxiety
timeFrame: change in General Anxiety Disiorder mean score from baseline (start of massage) to 12 months (end of massage). Score can range from 0 to 21. A higher score means more anxiety
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Staff turnover
timeFrame: the number of sick leave days during the 12 months internvetion period will be compared to the numbers of sicke leave days the previous year. Data will be collected from the hospitals datajournal system
measure: Health Related Quality of life
timeFrame: change in the eight health concept scores and the two summary component scores of the RAND-36 from baseline (start of massage) to 12 months (end of massage). Scores range from 0 to 100. A higher score means a better health related quality of life
measure: Global Quality of life
timeFrame: change in Visual Analog Scale from EQ-5D score from baseline (start of massage) to 12 months (end of massage). The scale ranges from 0 to 100. A higher score means a better quality of life
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Norrköping
country: Sweden
facility: Peter Johansson
state: Linköpings Universitet
city: Norrköping
country: Sweden
facility: Linkoping University
Study officials:
affiliation: Linköpings Universiet
name: Peter Johansson, Professor
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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