Clinical trial NCT06818539: Burnout and Resilience in Hospital-based Nursing and Medical Personnel and Trainees
Official title: Burnout in Hospital-based Nursing and Medical Personnel and Trainees: A Mixed Methods Approach
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Conditions: Stress
Burnout
Keywords: stress
burnout
resilience
crosssectional
healthcare workers
nurses
doctors
surgeons
observational
healthcare professionals
work stress
Lead sponsor: University of Limerick
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA)
name: Rigshospitalet, Denmark
name: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
First posted: 2025-02-10
Enrollment: 650
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 66
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Hospital-based doctors and nurses across the European Union

Brief summary: Aims to look at associations between work stress, burnout and resilience in hospital-based nurses and medical professionals in several EU countries.

Detailed description: Healthcare professionals, in particular, hospital-based nursing and medical staff, especially surgical specialities, are experiencing symptoms of burnout as never before. Within healthcare, job commitment is at stake leading to staff shortages which places further stress on the health care system, creating a vicious cycle of stressful work environment.

This is the context of the present study, and our aim is to explore quantitatively how factors like resilience, work-setting factors like job support, autonomy and leadership contribute to burnout in hospital-based nursing and medical personnel. These factors have been found to be predictive of burnout with few studies looking at synergistic interactions between these predictors. A survey design will be used for quantitative data collection. This study will also include qualitative interview-based study to complement the quantitative study.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Hospital-based nurses and doctors

Exclusion Criteria:

* Non-hospital based healthcare professionals, under 18 and over 66, non-medical hospital staff

Primary outcomes:
measure: Resilience scores among hospital-based doctors and nurses
timeFrame: 5 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Limerick
country: Ireland
facility: Department of Psychology
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Limerick
name: Stephen Gallagher, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Greville-Harris M, Withers C, Wezyk A, Thomas K, Bolderston H, Kane A, McDougall S, Turner KJ. Association of resilience and psychological flexibility with surgeons' mental wellbeing. BJS Open. 2024 Jul 2;8(4):zrae060. doi: 10.1093/bjsopen/zrae060.
citation: Cha YJ, Lee KS, Cho JH, Choi IS, Lee D. Effect of Job Stress on Burnout among Nurses Responding to COVID-19: The Mediating Effect of Resilience. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Apr 29;19(9):5409. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19095409.
citation: Morgan KH, Libby NE, Weaver AK, Cai C. Development of an early warning resilience survey for healthcare organizations. Heliyon. 2019 Nov 1;5(10):e02670. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02670. eCollection 2019 Oct.