Clinical trial NCT05607758: Digital Stress Management Intervention for Health Care Providers
Official title: Digital Stress Management Intervention for Health Care Providers
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Health Care Providers
Stress
Psychological
Lead sponsor: Oslo University Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-11-07
Enrollment: 117
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: The purpose with this study is to test if the app-based stress management program StressProffen, can be of interest and support for stress management among health care providers.

Detailed description: For health care providers, work-related stress can be a major challenge that can lead to frustration, lower motivation, reduced quality of life and burnout, and the last year's COVID-19 pandemic particularly emphasized the challenges in the stressful everyday life faced by health care providers.

There are, however, interventions that can be of support, both for the prevention of stress and for coping with stress in challenging situations, and in recent years there has also been an increased focus on stress in working life in this setting. Several studies have also recently been carried out which aim to deliver such interventions via applications (apps) to promote employees' physical and mental health, as well as their ability to cope with stress. However, there is a need for more research in the field, especially with a focus that content in such apps should be based on evidence-based theory, and that interviews and a similar qualitative approach should be included in studies to gain increased insight into the need for and usefulness of digital tools among health care providers.

This study will therefore test the effect of an app-based program for stress management, StressProffen, among health care providers, in a single arm study. The app contains 10 modules distributed over four weeks, focusing on education of different techniques for reduction of stress and stress reduction exercises.

StressProffen was initially developed and tested for stress management in patients with cancer, with good results. Among other things, a randomized controlled trial showed a statistically significant reduction in perceived stress, anxiety, depression and self-regulation fatigue, as well as increased health-related quality of life, for participants in the intervention group compared to the control group. The aim of this study is to test whether StressProffen can be of interest and support for stress management among health care providers.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Health care providers (included but not restricted to, registered nurses, physicians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dietitians, social workers, health workers).
* Working with patient treatment or follow up at Oslo University Hospital
* Having their own smart phone or tablet
* Being able to write/read/speak Norwegian

Exclusion Criteria:

* None

Primary outcomes:
measure: The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-14)
timeFrame: Change from baseline to f-up month 3
measure: The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-14)
timeFrame: Change from baseline to f-up month 6
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
timeFrame: Change from baseline to f-up month 3
measure: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
timeFrame: Change from baseline to f-up month 6
measure: SF-36 Item Short Form Health Survey (RAND-36 version)
timeFrame: Change from baseline to f-up month 3
measure: SF-36 Item Short Form Health Survey (RAND-36 version)
timeFrame: Change from baseline to f-up month 6
measure: The Self-Regulatory Fatigue-18 (SRF-18)
timeFrame: Change from baseline to f-up month 3
measure: The Self-Regulatory Fatigue-18 (SRF-18)
timeFrame: Change from baseline to f-up month 6
Other outcomes:
measure: Intervention commentary
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Sleep
timeFrame: Change from baseline to f-up month 3
measure: Sleep
timeFrame: Change from baseline to f-up month 6
Locations:
city: Oslo
country: Norway
facility: Oslo University hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: Oslo University Hospital
name: Lise Solberg Nes, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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