Clinical trial NCT05776680: The Effects of Multi-Psycho-Oncology Care Courses
Official title: The Effects of Multi-Psycho-Oncology Care Courses Through Remote Psychological Support, Emotional Awareness Situation Videos and Empathic Concern Intervention on Physical and Psychological Status, Self-Efficacy and Empathy in Oncology Nurses
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cancer
Psychological
Oncology
Empathy
Keywords: cancer
Oncology nurse
Psychological support
Empathy
Training course
Lead sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-03-20
Enrollment: 280
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: When the patient's mood has not yet reached a moderate to high severity level, psychological support is usually provided by the clinical nurses. However, the result of past research showed that the needs of patients and their caregivers were not satisfied with the psychological level. Scholars pointed out that it may be related to factors such as excessive clinical workload or insufficient psychological support and care capacity. In addition, under the influence of COVID-19 in the past two years, medical staff are facing more physical and mental pressure. Oncology nurses have a heavy workload and are affected by the COVID 19 epidemic, which reflects that nurses need psychological support. Therefore, this study intends to reduce stress through remote physical and mental support activities, and use the Internet to intervene in guided relaxation and meditation. Considering the scheduling of clinical nurses, a remote and unstructured course content that does not require continuity will be selected, and then advanced to provide the empathetic care skills of oncology nurses.


Eligibility criteria: Intervention group

* Inclusion Criteria:
* Over 20 years old (inclusive)
* Oncology nurses currently working in clinical practice
* Exclusion Criteria:
* Those who are unwilling or unable to participate in this course training for a full one- year period.
* Those who have registered for the advanced oncology nursing course organized by the Society in the current year.

Control group

* Inclusion Criteria:
* Over 20 years old (inclusive)
* Oncology nurses currently working in clinical practice
* Those who have registered for the advanced oncology nursing course organized by the Society in the current year
* Exclusion Criteria:
* Those who have participated in multiple oncology psychological care courses, those who are unwilling or unable to participate in the training of distance psychological support courses for a full one-year period.
* Those who participate in the advanced course of oncology nursing are unwilling or unable to participate in the data evaluation of the complete bi-annual time point.
* Those who have participated in this research project.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Physical and Psychological Symptoms Scale
timeFrame: 2 time points: Time 1 (before the psychological support course) ; Time 2 ( 6 months after the psychological support course)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Self efficacy scale (GSES)
timeFrame: 2 time points: Time 1 (before the psychological support course) ; Time 2 ( 6 months after the psychological support course)
measure: Communication ability scale
timeFrame: 2 time points: Time 1 (before the psychological support course) ; Time 2 (6 months after the psychological support course)
measure: Efferson Empathy Scale
timeFrame: 2 time points: Time 1 (before the psychological support course) ; Time 2 ( 6 months after the psychological support course)
measure: Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Spiritual Well-Being （FACIT-Sp）
timeFrame: 2 time points: Time 1 (before the psychological support course) ; Time 2 ( 6 months after the psychological support course)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Taipei
country: Taiwan
facility: National Taiwan University Hospital
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