Clinical trial NCT07018609: Mitigating Burnout in Nursing and Associated Healthcare Staff
Official title: The Zen Den - Mitigating Burnout in Nursing and Associated Healthcare Staff
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Burn Out
Nurses
Keywords: Burnout
Nurses
Music Therapy
Lead sponsor: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2025-06-12
Enrollment: 300
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Workplace stress for healthcare workers is at an all-time high and the COVID-19 Pandemic magnified and amplified the impact of stress and burnout on health care workers, especially for frontline staff such as nurses. There are multiple external and individual factors that affect clinician well-being, and organizational factors are an important aspect to address when attempting to mitigate nurse burnout and improve well-being. This project seeks to expand two interventions that were piloted in the last few years since the Covid-19 Pandemic, validated to show improvement in staff well-being and decreased feelings of burnout following the interventions, and are easily implemented to benefit nurses and other multidisciplinary health care workers and students in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

- English-speaking employees or students at Penn State Health and College of Medicine.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Non-English speaking individuals

Primary outcomes:
measure: The number of subjects who state preference for having long-term access to the intervention.
timeFrame: Survey data will be collected at the end of the intervention up to 30 minutes post intervention.
measure: The number of subjects who report improvement of subject's energy level needed to complete immediate job responsibilities.
timeFrame: Survey data will be collected at the end of the intervention up to 30 minutes post intervention.
measure: The number of subjects who report improvement of subject's understanding of what is needed in the moment to overcome challenges.
timeFrame: Survey data will be collected at the end of the intervention up to 30 minutes post intervention.
measure: The number of subjects who report improvement navigating challenging or difficult situations in the workplace
timeFrame: Survey data will be collected at the end of the intervention up to 30 minutes post intervention.
measure: The number of subjects who report improvement in expressing thoughts, questions and feelings with colleagues situations in the workplace.
timeFrame: Survey data will be collected at the end of the intervention up to 30 minutes post intervention.
measure: The number of subjects who report improvement in feeling less isolated at work.
timeFrame: Survey data will be collected at the end of the intervention up to 30 minutes post intervention.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The number of subjects reporting the intervention was well facilitated.
timeFrame: Survey data will be collected at the end of the intervention up to 30 minutes post intervention.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Penn State University
name: ERIC R MESSNER, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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