Digital Stress Management Intervention for Health Care Providers

NCT ID: NCT05607758

Last Updated: 2025-05-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 117 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-11-10
• Study Completion Date: 2025-07-31

Brief Summary

The purpose with this study is to test if the app-based stress management program StressProffen, can be of interest and support for stress management among health care providers.

Detailed Description

For health care providers, work-related stress can be a major challenge that can lead to frustration, lower motivation, reduced quality of life and burnout, and the last year's COVID-19 pandemic particularly emphasized the challenges in the stressful everyday life faced by health care providers.

There are, however, interventions that can be of support, both for the prevention of stress and for coping with stress in challenging situations, and in recent years there has also been an increased focus on stress in working life in this setting. Several studies have also recently been carried out which aim to deliver such interventions via applications (apps) to promote employees' physical and mental health, as well as their ability to cope with stress. However, there is a need for more research in the field, especially with a focus that content in such apps should be based on evidence-based theory, and that interviews and a similar qualitative approach should be included in studies to gain increased insight into the need for and usefulness of digital tools among health care providers.

This study will therefore test the effect of an app-based program for stress management, StressProffen, among health care providers, in a single arm study. The app contains 10 modules distributed over four weeks, focusing on education of different techniques for reduction of stress and stress reduction exercises.

StressProffen was initially developed and tested for stress management in patients with cancer, with good results. Among other things, a randomized controlled trial showed a statistically significant reduction in perceived stress, anxiety, depression and self-regulation fatigue, as well as increased health-related quality of life, for participants in the intervention group compared to the control group. The aim of this study is to test whether StressProffen can be of interest and support for stress management among health care providers.

Conditions

Health Care Providers; Stress; Psychological

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

App for Stress management

Participants will:

• Participate in a physical introduction to the app-based stress management program
• Get access to the app-based program, and a new module every third day (total 10 modules). The app consists of stress management education, cognitive behavioral interventions and relaxation training exercises.
• Receive two phone follow-up calls from study personnel (about 3 and 6 weeks after the physical introduction)

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

StressProffen©™

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

An app-based program for stress management consisting of 10 modules that teaches stress management, cognitive behavioral coping skills and relaxation training.

Interventions

StressProffen©™

An app-based program for stress management consisting of 10 modules that teaches stress management, cognitive behavioral coping skills and relaxation training.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

Stress Management

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Health care providers (included but not restricted to, registered nurses, physicians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dietitians, social workers, health workers).
• Working with patient treatment or follow up at Oslo University Hospital
• Having their own smart phone or tablet
• Being able to write/read/speak Norwegian

Exclusion Criteria

• None

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Oslo University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Elin Børøsund

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Lise Solberg Nes, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Oslo University Hospital

Locations

Oslo University hospital

Oslo, , Norway

Countries

Norway

Other Identifiers

22/21663

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id