Clinical trial NCT03116451: Nurses' Foot Health and Work Well-being
Official title: Nurses' Foot Health and Work Well-being - Development and Testing of an Electronic Foot Health Program
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Foot
Nurses
Keywords: foot health
nurses
work well-being
Lead sponsor: University of Turku
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Finnish Work Environment Fund
name: Turku University Hospital
First posted: 2017-04-17
Enrollment: 56
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: Quasi-experimental study design
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study supports and promotes work well-being of nursing personnel from the perspective of foot health in health care organizations. Half of the participants will receive an electronic foot health education program to improve their foot self-care knowledge, while the other will receive anything. The outcomes of this project include recommendations and tested educational program to occupational health care for improving foot health of nurses.

Detailed description: An electronic Foot Health Promoting Program (FHPP) will be tested with nurses using quasi-experimental study design.

The participants will be assigned to experimental (N=130) and comparison (N=130) groups. The experimental group will receive an electronic intervention (Foot Health Promotion Program) for 8 weeks consisting of foot self-care guidance (skin and nail self-care), foot exercises, foot stretching and professional footwear guidance. Detailed components of the intervention will be produced on the bases of survey (part 1) results. The intervention (Figure 3) will be electronic via internet (Moodle platform) where a material package of foot health care will be delivered. Each participant will receive a user account to platform. The platform is divided into four main themes all related to foot health. Each theme consists of two topics of foot health. Each topic includes lectures (delivered via Adobe Presenter) and self-directed learning where participant will go through a list of links to websites (will be evaluated with certain criteria beforehand) and watch videos about foot self-care. In addition, the learning will be evaluated using four individual tasks related to foot self-care. By responding to task a participant will receive an example of the correct answer and using that he/she can evaluate own response and learn by that. Participants' use of different links (quantity) and their paths in the intervention platform will be calculated and analysed. The participants will be tested before the intervention (baseline) and one month (follow-up 1) and four (follow-up 2) months after the intervention. The primary outcome is foot health knowledge and secondary outcomes are foot health, musculoskeletal problems, work ability, health-related quality of life and work satisfaction. Hypothesis is: Increasing nurses' knowledge about foot health will improve their foot health and work ability. Ultimate goal is to develop tools for the occupational health care and improve the attention paid to feet as part of the work ability among nurses.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* nurses (registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, public health nurses) working in the operating theatre

Exclusion Criteria:

* other health care professionals

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline Foot self-care knowledge at 4 and 12 weeks
timeFrame: baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline Foot health at 4 and 12 weeks
timeFrame: baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks
measure: Change from Baseline Musculoskeletal Disorders at 4 and 12 weeks
timeFrame: baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks
measure: Change from Baseline Foot health Status at 4 and 12 weeks
timeFrame: baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks
measure: Change from Baseline Work Ability Score at 4 and 12 weeks
timeFrame: baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Turku
country: Finland
facility: University of Turku
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Turku
name: Minna Stolt, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Stolt M, Katajisto J, Peltonen J, Suhonen R, Leino-Kilpi H. Development and testing of a new electronic foot health promotion programme on nurses' foot self-care. BMC Nurs. 2020 Apr 19;19:29. doi: 10.1186/s12912-020-00423-z. eCollection 2020.