Improving Health of Nurses With Burnout Through Positive Psychological Intervention

NCT ID: NCT03657563

Last Updated: 2018-09-05

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 87 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2016-12-31

Brief Summary

Burnout is usually regarded as a response to chronic professional stressors like high workload, unfavorable emotion and complex interpersonal relationships. A high prevalence of burnout was found in many countries, and large-scale studies also showed high levels of burnout in Chinese nurses. As a stress-related syndrome, burnout was found to have detrimental influences on both psychological and physical health of nurses. Psychological problems such as depression and insomnia are verified to be associated with burnout. Endocrine dysfunction such as abnormal cortisol secretion rhythm occurred in shift-work nurses. Thyroid dysfunction was increasing and a sample of nurses were diagnosed with thyroid nodules and thyroid hormonal disorder during annual physical examination. Therefore, it is important to take measures to alleviate nurses' burnout to improve health.

Positive psychological interventions are defined as treatment methods or intentional activities to enhance person's positive emotions, cognitions and behaviours. In these methods and activities, people are usually required to finish a systematic exercise. According to a recent meta-analysis, Positive psychological interventions showed effectiveness in enhancing participants' well-being and reducing depressive symptoms. Therefore, this study aims to explore whether positive psychological intervention could reduce burnout and improve health of nurses.

Conditions

Burnout

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Intervention group

Nurses with burnout are recruited in the intervention group and participate in positive psychological intervention.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Positive psychological intervention

Intervention Type: OTHER

Participants in the intervention group are required to record three good things every night before sleeping for five days a week using WeChat. Such things could be ordinary, minor or important.

WeChat is a common communication tool used in China, just like Facebook, basic messages could be sent individually and posting pictures or texts is also available.

Control group

Nurses with burnout are recruited in the control group and none interventions are conducted to them.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Positive psychological intervention

Participants in the intervention group are required to record three good things every night before sleeping for five days a week using WeChat. Such things could be ordinary, minor or important.

WeChat is a common communication tool used in China, just like Facebook, basic messages could be sent individually and posting pictures or texts is also available.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• officially employed licensed nurses; burnout score higher than 1.49; had a telephone on which WeChat could be installed.

Exclusion Criteria

• pregnant; current endocrine disorder; taking hormone drugs such as contraceptives.

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Central South University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Yuanhui Luo

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Central South University

Changsha, Hunan, China

Countries

China

Other Identifiers

2015053

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id