H-Senses Project - Self Care Mediated by the Senses

NCT ID: NCT02406755

Last Updated: 2015-09-03

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 123 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2014-07-31
• Study Completion Date: 2015-08-31

Brief Summary

Randomized clinical trial about self-care mediated by the senses in female health professionals and their influence on stress, self-esteem, mood states, life satisfaction and levels of salivary cortisol.

Detailed Description

The work environment of health professionals is commonly considered stressful, given that they need to deal with difficult situations that include pain, risk of death, the decisions that need to be fast and accurate, and conflicts generated in interpersonal relationships. There is an ongoing discussion that the investigators need to care for those who care, however, there are few interventions studied and validated to effectively reduce the stress of these professionals that resonate in states of well-being. There is little room for discussion of this topic during the workday, as well as to learn techniques and measures for effective stress management. This study aims to explore the relationship between well-being, self-esteem and stress of women health professionals, and compare three self-care interventions mediated by the senses.

Conditions

Stress

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Control

This control group will not receive an intervention.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

one-sensory self care

Daily moisturizing body care with an odorless moisturizer (Todo Dia® - Natura) for 30 days.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

one-sensory self care (Todo Dia®)

Intervention Type: OTHER

daily use of odorless body moisturizer (Todo Dia® - Natura)

bi-sensory self care

Daily moisturizing body care with a moisturizer with cotton fragance (Todo Dia® - Natura) for 30 days.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

bi-sensory self care (Todo Dia®)

Intervention Type: OTHER

daily use of moisturizing body with cotton fragrance (Todo Dia® - Natura)

multisensory self care

Daily moisturizing body care with a moisturizer with cotton fragance (Todo Dia® - Natura) for 30 days, and will watch a video with music and images of nature during self-care.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

multisensory self care (Todo Dia®)

Intervention Type: OTHER

daily use of moisturizing body with cotton fragrance (Todo Dia® - Natura) + audiovisual stimulus

Interventions

one-sensory self care (Todo Dia®)

daily use of odorless body moisturizer (Todo Dia® - Natura)

Intervention Type: OTHER

multisensory self care (Todo Dia®)

daily use of moisturizing body with cotton fragrance (Todo Dia® - Natura) + audiovisual stimulus

Intervention Type: OTHER

bi-sensory self care (Todo Dia®)

daily use of moisturizing body with cotton fragrance (Todo Dia® - Natura)

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Professional healthcare;
• working in healthcare or administrative area in hospital
• Voluntary participation;
• Signed in term of free and informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

• Evaluation with relevant dermatological findings diagnosed by a dermatologist;
• Work at nighttime or in alternate periods (because of known chronobiological changes that would affect the study of cortisol, one of the outcomes considered in the study);
• who are breastfeeding;
• Be pregnant

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 60 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Eliseth Ribeiro Leao

PhD

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Eliseth R Leão, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein - Albert Einstein Jewish Institute for Education and Research

Locations

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Countries

Brazil

References

Ribeiro VF, Filho CF, Valenti VE, Ferreira M, de Abreu LC, de Carvalho TD, Xavier V, de Oliveira Filho J, Gregory P, Leao ER, Francisco NG, Ferreira C. Prevalence of burnout syndrome in clinical nurses at a hospital of excellence. Int Arch Med. 2014 May 9;7:22. doi: 10.1186/1755-7682-7-22. eCollection 2014.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 24860618 (View on PubMed)

Caminha LB, da Silva MJ, Leao ER. [The influence of musical rhythms on the perception of subjective states of adult patients on dialysis]. Rev Esc Enferm USP. 2009 Dec;43(4):923-9. doi: 10.1590/s0080-62342009000400026. Portuguese.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 20085165 (View on PubMed)

Leao ER, Dal Fabbro DR, Oliveira RB, Santos IR, Victor ED, Aquarone RL, Andrade CB, Ribeiro VF, Oliveira RC, Friedlander R, Ferreira DS. Stress, self-esteem and well-being among female health professionals: A randomized clinical trial on the impact of a self-care intervention mediated by the senses. PLoS One. 2017 Feb 27;12(2):e0172455. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172455. eCollection 2017.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 28241070 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

H-Senses

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id