Clinical trial NCT04821037: Nurse Health Pilot: Feasibility and Acceptability of a Virtual ACT-intervention in Nurses During COVID-19
Official title: Feasibility and Acceptability of a Virtual ACT-intervention in Nurses Working During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Pilot Study)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Stress
Keywords: stress
resilience
wellbeing
Lead sponsor: University of Basel
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: State Secretariat for Education Research and Innovation, Switzerland
name: ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
First posted: 2021-03-29
Enrollment: 10
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: Frontline nurses increasingly face challenges between executing their jobs to the best of their ability and caring for their own physical and mental health. Such a stressful and fast-changing work environment impacts the nurses' psychological wellbeing, resulting in high levels of stress and burnout, which in turn negatively affects patient care and outcomes.

The aim of this study is to investigate whether a short virtual intervention, based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and adapted to caregivers, can lead to a reduction in psychological distress that may be associated with caregiving during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The intervention will be held online in a group setting during two half-day workshops using a conference application (e.g. Zoom).

Note: This study is part of an international joint research project "Nurse Health" between the Faculty of Psychology (University of Basel) and the Nethersole School of Nursing (Chinese University of Hong Kong), funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), with the Leading House for the Bilateral Science and Technology Cooperation Programme with Asia at ETH Zürich (Project No. COV_09_062020).


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* at least 18 years of age
* degree in nursing
* working 40% or higher in a team of nurses in the somatic area
* currently or previously in contact with COVID-19 patients
* working in Switzerland

Exclusion Criteria:

* working in non-somatic areas (e.g. psychiatry)
* working in non-hospital environments (e.g. home treatment)
* not owning an electronic device
* unable to understand and speak German

Primary outcomes:
measure: Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10)
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: General Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7)
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Maslach Burnout Inventory - Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS)
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Mental Health Continuum Short Form (MHC-SF)
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Psychological Flexibility Questionnaire (PsyFlex)
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Valued Living Questionnaire (VLQ)
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Mueller and McCloskey Satisfaction Scale (MMSS)
timeFrame: 8 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Program Attendance/ Attrition Rate
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Homework Completion
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Program Satisfaction
timeFrame: 8 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Basel
country: Switzerland
facility: Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel
state: BS
Study officials:
affiliation: Division of Clinical Psychology & Intervention Science, University of Basel
name: Andrew T Gloster, Prof. Dr.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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