Emotional Labor, Physical Labor and Mental Labor of Hospice Care Nurses: A Mixed-method Study

NCT ID: NCT05608512

Last Updated: 2022-12-06

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Total Enrollment: 200 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-02-01
• Study Completion Date: 2022-11-30

Brief Summary

Hospice care is a nurse-led multidisciplinary team care that provides physical, mental, and social care to end-of-life patients. According to the WHO, the role of hospice nurses is addressing suffering involves taking care of issues beyond physical symptoms, to support patients and their caregivers. Different from other disease care, hospice nurses face end-of-life patients and their families. As the primary nursing contact of a dying family, hospice nurses have a more intense and complex emotional experience. In China, with the improvement of human rights protection awareness, the nurse-patient relationship is particularly important, and the social requirements for nursing workers are also getting higher and higher. In addition, hospice nurses not only provide physical and psychological care to patients, but also provide comprehensive care to families of end-of-life patients. It is not just the mental work of learning expertise and dealing with emergency situations, and the physical labor of caring for large numbers of patients; but also requires emotional labor that has rarely been recognized before. When facing end-of-life patients and their families, it is particularly important to express appropriate emotions and pay emotional labor.

Conditions

Hospitalism

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: OTHER
• Study Time Perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

hospice care nurses

nurses who have worked in a palliative care or hospice unit

interview

Intervention Type: OTHER

The first phase included a qualitative study. We conducted a qualitative phenomenological method to better explicate and understand palliative care nurses' emotional labor experiences, as well as the dilemmas and solutions they encounter when physical, mental, and emotional labor intertwine at work. In the early stage, we compiled an interview outline by a written qualitative meta-analysis about the emotional labor, and added the contents in the interview outline according to the actual situation in the later interview process.

Interventions

interview

The first phase included a qualitative study. We conducted a qualitative phenomenological method to better explicate and understand palliative care nurses' emotional labor experiences, as well as the dilemmas and solutions they encounter when physical, mental, and emotional labor intertwine at work. In the early stage, we compiled an interview outline by a written qualitative meta-analysis about the emotional labor, and added the contents in the interview outline according to the actual situation in the later interview process.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

• Nurses who were not directly involved in patient care (e.g., central sterile supply department nurses), and intern nurses were excluded.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Huichao Zhang

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Wu Ye

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

China

Facility Contacts

Yuxi Zhang, master

Role: primary

zhangyuxi830@163.com

13770653609

Other Identifiers

NMU22_1101

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id