Enhanced Stress Resilience Training for Critical Care Nurses

NCT ID: NCT05905991

Last Updated: 2024-02-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 48 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-04-25
• Study Completion Date: 2023-12-31

Brief Summary

Job stress and burnout are significant problems affecting physical health, emotional well-being, job performance, and retention of nurses. Enhanced Stress Resilience Training (ESRT) is a theory-driven, evidence-based intervention to increase stress resilience and decrease burnout among clinicians. This study is a randomized waitlist-controlled trial to examine the efficacy, feasibility, and long-term sustainability of the 5-week ESRT intervention to improve psychosocial and occupational well-being of critical care nurses.

Detailed Description

The critical care setting is a stressful work environment where nurses provide intensive care to patients with life-threatening conditions. Regular job stress from the complex and fast-paced critical care work environment has been further intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in unprecedented challenges to health systems and has affected psychosocial and occupational wellbeing of healthcare workers. High or chronic job stress that is not properly managed can lead to burnout, which is characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and decreased personal accomplishment. Burnout has negative impacts on physical and mental health (e.g., fatigue, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders), job performance or productivity (e.g., absenteeism, presenteeism), quality of care and patient care outcomes. Burnout also negatively affects nurses' retention and job turnover. The global prevalence of burnout among nurses ranges from 0.1% to 47.8% (pooled prevalence 11.2%) and critical care nurses are reported to have the highest prevalence of burnout (14.4%) among all specialties. Therefore, there is a substantial need to address burnout and promote occupational wellness of critical care nurses. Enhanced Stress Resilience Training (ESRT) is a theory-driven, evidence-based intervention developed by UCSF Associate Professor of Surgery, Dr. Carter Lebares aimed at increasing stress resilience and decreasing burnout among clinicians. The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy, feasibility, and long-term sustainability of the 5-week ESRT intervention to improve psychosocial and occupational well-being among critical care nurses. The study will conduct a randomized waitlist-controlled trial among 100 UCSF critical care nurses.

Conditions

Job Stress; Burnout

Study Design

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

Study Groups

ESRT Intervention

Five 1-hour weekly ESRT sessions

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Enhanced Stress Resilience Training

Intervention Type: OTHER

The ESRT intervention will consist of 1) five weekly one-hour sessions (in-person or virtual) led by a certified instructor; 2) smartphone-based exercises that bring informal practice into daily life; 3) videos on principles and concepts taught each week; and 4) meditation recordings of various lengths and styles supporting the prescribed daily practice of up to 20 min/day. Weekly didactic and experiential activities will cover mindfulness-based intervention concepts and skills, such as cultivating resilience, awareness of the body, managing thoughts, responding versus reacting, transforming circumstances, and advocacy through mindful communication. The ESRT smartphone app ("Mindful Brian") houses all course materials (pre-class materials and post-class materials) and sends class reminders and messages. Considering nurses' shifts, ESRT will be offered in two separate sessions each week.

Waitlist Control

The control group will receive ESRT after the intervention group finishes the 5-week ESRT program.

Group Type: OTHER

Enhanced Stress Resilience Training

Intervention Type: OTHER

The ESRT intervention will consist of 1) five weekly one-hour sessions (in-person or virtual) led by a certified instructor; 2) smartphone-based exercises that bring informal practice into daily life; 3) videos on principles and concepts taught each week; and 4) meditation recordings of various lengths and styles supporting the prescribed daily practice of up to 20 min/day. Weekly didactic and experiential activities will cover mindfulness-based intervention concepts and skills, such as cultivating resilience, awareness of the body, managing thoughts, responding versus reacting, transforming circumstances, and advocacy through mindful communication. The ESRT smartphone app ("Mindful Brian") houses all course materials (pre-class materials and post-class materials) and sends class reminders and messages. Considering nurses' shifts, ESRT will be offered in two separate sessions each week.

Interventions

Enhanced Stress Resilience Training

The ESRT intervention will consist of 1) five weekly one-hour sessions (in-person or virtual) led by a certified instructor; 2) smartphone-based exercises that bring informal practice into daily life; 3) videos on principles and concepts taught each week; and 4) meditation recordings of various lengths and styles supporting the prescribed daily practice of up to 20 min/day. Weekly didactic and experiential activities will cover mindfulness-based intervention concepts and skills, such as cultivating resilience, awareness of the body, managing thoughts, responding versus reacting, transforming circumstances, and advocacy through mindful communication. The ESRT smartphone app ("Mindful Brian") houses all course materials (pre-class materials and post-class materials) and sends class reminders and messages. Considering nurses' shifts, ESRT will be offered in two separate sessions each week.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Adult critical care nurses employed at UCSF Health.

Exclusion Criteria

• Those who cannot commit to participation in all five ESRT sessions
• Temporary travel nurses.

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of California, San Francisco

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Soo-Jeong Lee

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of California, San Francisco

Locations

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, California, United States

Countries

United States

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Other Identifiers

CNR-2022-02

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id