"resiLIR Healthcare Professionals": A Psychological Online Intervention to Enhance Resilience in Healthcare Professionals

NCT ID: NCT05812716

Last Updated: 2024-10-23

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

224 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-06-20

Study Completion Date

2024-07-04

Brief Summary

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The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate an online resilience intervention with healthcare professionals. Participants will receive a 6-week online intervention addressing resilience and stress with a specific focus on self-care and self-compassion. The main question is whether the intervention is effective in increasing resilience.

Detailed Description

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Background: Healthcare professionals often experience challenging working conditions, e.g., demanding physical work or time-sensitive tasks, which leads to a high risk of stress-associated disorders or burnout. Especially the COVID-19 pandemic as an additional stressor for healthcare highlighted the role of resilience, that is, the ability to maintain or return to good mental health during stress exposure. To promote mental health and resilience in healthcare professionals, previous studies point to self-care and self-compassion as promising factors.

Objectives: The aim of the study therefore is to examine the feasibility and efficacy of a newly developed online intervention with a focus on self-care and self-compassion to foster resilience in healthcare professionals.

Methods: In a waitlist control design, 240 healthcare professionals will take part in the 6-week resilience intervention "resiLIR Healthcare Professionals". The online intervention contains a theoretical part conveying psychoeducational material as well as a training phase including practical exercises and mini-interventions in everyday life. Participants will assess resilience, burnout, and several resilience factors in online surveys pre-, during and post-intervention as well as 3, 6 and 12 months after completion as follow-up assessments.

Implications: The study will contribute to stress and burnout prevention in healthcare professionals through offering a feasible and evidence-based online intervention.

Conditions

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Resilience

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Waitlist control design
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Intervention

Participants in the intervention group will gain access to the 6-week online resilience intervention "resiLIR Healthcare Professionals".

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

resiLIR Healthcare Professionals

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Weeks 1 and 2: Theoretical part on stress, resilience, self-care, and self-compassion

Weeks 3 to 6: Training phase of a weekly introduced practical exercise (reflection on living with ease, self-compassionate body scan, planning of positive activities, self-compassionate letter). This phase additionally includes smartphone reminders to apply the exercises in everyday life.

Waitlist control group

Participants will receive the intervention after the first follow up-assessment (3 months post-intervention of the intervention group).

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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resiLIR Healthcare Professionals

Weeks 1 and 2: Theoretical part on stress, resilience, self-care, and self-compassion

Weeks 3 to 6: Training phase of a weekly introduced practical exercise (reflection on living with ease, self-compassionate body scan, planning of positive activities, self-compassionate letter). This phase additionally includes smartphone reminders to apply the exercises in everyday life.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age 18 years or older
* Fluent in German language
* Access to web-enabled devices (tablet/laptop/computer)
* Smartphone with internet access
* Trained and employed as health care professionals

Exclusion Criteria

* Acute mental health crisis (e.g., suicidality)
* Psychiatric/psychotherapeutic treatment
* Neurodegenerative disease(s)
* Diagnosis of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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European Regional Development Fund

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Ministry of Science and Health of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Leibniz-Institut für Resilienzforschung (LIR) gGmbH

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Oliver Tüscher

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Leibniz Institute of Resilience Research

Locations

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Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research gGmbH

Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Site Status

Countries

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Germany

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Statistical Analysis Plan

View Document

Other Identifiers

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01_resiLIR_HCP

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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