Leadership for Recovery: Evaluation of an Intervention Programme for First-line Healthcare Managers
NCT ID: NCT06678347
Last Updated: 2024-11-18
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Basic Information
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RECRUITING
NA
960 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2024-06-13
2025-12-31
Brief Summary
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In the study, the researchers will investigate if the intervention programme can improve the recovery (including sleep) of healthcare employees. The intervention programme consists of 6 group sessions for managers.
The main question the study aims to answer are:
\- Can a group-based intervention programme with a focus on strengthening first-line healthcare managers' leadership for recovery improve their employees' recovery?
The intervention programme will be delivered to first-line healthcare managers in Swedish hospital care settings. Researchers will compare survey, diary and actigraphy data between employees of 1) managers who participate in the programme and 2) managers who has not participated in the programme.
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Detailed Description
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Healthcare staff are often subjected to high workload and insufficient opportunities for recovery. Recovery (including sleep) is an important factor for good health and performance , not least during periods of high stress and strain. Previous research has shown that leadership and organisational factors play a major role in employee health and performance. However, managers in healthcare often report a demanding work situation themselves, which might affect their own health and become an obstacle for the leadership. Thus, healthcare managers have a key role in promoting their employees' recovery, but to be able to manage that important task, they may also need support for managing their own recovery. Furthermore, there is a lack of research on how healthcare managers can work with supporting employees' recovery.
In a previous research project, the investigators developed and evaluated a group-administered proactive recovery programme for new nurses, focusing on enhancing beneficial strategies for recovery. The programme showed promising effects in terms of reduced burnout and fatigue symptoms. However, the intervention was directed only towards the employees, on the individual level. A focus on interactions with organisational factors and leadership is likely needed to support long-term recovery among healthcare staff.
Aims
To evaluate an intervention programme, "Leadership for recovery", for first-line healthcare managers in Swedish hospital settings, focusing on both 1) strategies for promoting own recovery and 2) strengthening a "leadership for recovery" (a leadership that promotes employee recovery).
The main question the study aims to answer are:
\- Can a group-based intervention programme with a focus on strengthening first-line healthcare managers' own recovery and leadership for recovery improve their employees' recovery?
The hypotheses are:
The leadership for recovery program will:
* improve the employees' recovery (including sleep)
* improve the employees' health, including somatic symptoms and burnout symptoms
* improve the employees' cognition
* reduce the employees' work interference with personal life
* reduce the employees' intention to leave work
Research design
The study is a cluster randomised controlled trial. Participating managers will be randomised to either intervention group or control group. Employees of managers in both the intervention and control group will be invited to participate in the study. Thus, the employees are beforehand (before recruitment) already assigned (cluster randomised) to intervention or control group based on which group their manager belongs to.
Recruitment
Managers are recruited from Swedish hospitals through contacts with Human Resources Departments and second-line managers. All employees of participating managers will be invited via e-mail for participation in the study.
Procedure
The intervention programme for managers includes both educative and reflective parts with a focus on promoting strategies for recovery. It is based on previous interview studies with nurses and first-line healthcare managers (unpublished results), previous interventions for a health promoting leadership, our previously evaluated recovery programme for nurses, and organisational behavioural management techniques. The first parts of the programme focus mostly on managers' own recovery, and the latter parts focus on ways to promote employees' recovery. The programme consists of 6 group sessions distributed over approximately 6 months.
Employees in both intervention and control group will fill out surveys at baseline (before intervention group managers' start the leadership intervention) post-intervention (about 1 month after intervention group managers' fifth session) and at follow-up (12 months after baseline). A subsample (voluntary) will also fill out diaries and wear actigraphy wristbands (objective sleep measure) at baseline and follow-up. Employees in the intervention and control group will be compared in terms of effects of the programme. Primary outcomes will be measures of recovery (including sleep). Secondary outcomes include measures of general health; somatic symptoms; burnout symptoms; cognition and work performance; work interference with personal life and intention to leave work. Both primary and secondary outcomes will be measured in both surveys and diaries. Sleep will also be measured through actigraphy wristbands. Data from surveys and diaries/actigraphy will be analysed and reported separately.
Randomisation and masking
The randomisation will be performed by a person not working in the project that is blinded to the participants. Block randomisation will be used. The randomisation will be made separately for different hospital sites (i.e. managers from the same hospital site will be randomised together, so that the ratio will be 1:1 for intervention/control group in each hospital site if possible). The randomisation may occur continuously as participants sign up for the study. If two or more managers work at the same unit/ward (shared leadership) they will be assigned to the same group.
It is not possible for participants or group leaders to be blinded to group allocation.
Sample size
The aim is to recruit approximately 80 first-line healthcare managers to be randomized to intervention or control group. Employees of participating managers will be invited to participate in the study. Based on the assumption that every manager has ≈ 40 employees, in total ≈ 3200 employees will be invited to participate. The investigators expect approximately 30% to sign up for the study, i.e. 960 participants.
Drop out from the program
Managers who drop out of the leadership program will be asked if they are willing to continue filling out questionnaires.
Data analysis plan
To be published. The analyses will follow the intention to treat principle. Per-protocol analysis will also be conducted.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
OTHER
NONE
Study Groups
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Intervention group
Participants in this arm includes employees of managers in the intervention group (that are participating in the intervention programme).
Leadership for recovery
The intervention will be delivered as a group-based programme (6 sessions) to the managers of the included employees. The programme includes educative and reflective parts as well as various strategies promoting both managers' own recovery and the recovery of employees.
Wait-list control group
Participants in this arm includes employees of managers randomised to the control group (that are not participating in the intervention programme during the study period).
Managers randomised to the control group will be offered to participate in the intervention programme after the last follow-up assessment. No further employee assessments will be made after the follow-up.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Leadership for recovery
The intervention will be delivered as a group-based programme (6 sessions) to the managers of the included employees. The programme includes educative and reflective parts as well as various strategies promoting both managers' own recovery and the recovery of employees.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
First line manager of nursing or laboratory staff in hospital care
Employees:
Having a first-line manager who participates in the study
Exclusion Criteria
Less than 6 months' work experience as a manager at baseline measurement
Less than 50 % employment as a manager
Employees:
Casual worker
Exclusion criterium only for the diary and actigraphy study (employees):
Less than 6 months' work experience in profession at baseline measurement
18 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Karolinska Institutet
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Anna Dahlgren
Docent
Principal Investigators
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Anna Dahlgren, Docent
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Karolinska Institutet
Locations
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Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset
Gothenburg, , Sweden
Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset
Stockholm, , Sweden
Countries
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Central Contacts
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References
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Dahlgren A, Tucker P, Epstein M, Gustavsson P, Soderstrom M. Randomised control trial of a proactive intervention supporting recovery in relation to stress and irregular work hours: effects on sleep, burn-out, fatigue and somatic symptoms. Occup Environ Med. 2022 Jul;79(7):460-468. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2021-107789. Epub 2022 Jan 24.
Dellve L, Eriksson A. Health-Promoting Managerial Work: A Theoretical Framework for a Leadership Program that Supports Knowledge and Capability to Craft Sustainable Work Practices in Daily Practice and During Organizational Change. Societies. 2017;7(2):12.
Eriksson A, Dellve L. Learning Processes as Key for Success in Workplace Health Promotion Interventions in Health Care. Front Public Health. 2020 Nov 10;8:576693. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.576693. eCollection 2020.
Geurts SA, Sonnentag S. Recovery as an explanatory mechanism in the relation between acute stress reactions and chronic health impairment. Scand J Work Environ Health. 2006 Dec;32(6):482-92. doi: 10.5271/sjweh.1053.
Kecklund G, Axelsson J. Health consequences of shift work and insufficient sleep. BMJ. 2016 Nov 1;355:i5210. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i5210.
Skakon J, Nielsen K, Borg V, Guzman J. Are leaders' well-being, behaviours and style associated with the affective well-being of their employees? A systematic review of three decades of research. Work and stress. 2010;24(2):107-39.
Sonnentag S. The recovery paradox: Portraying the complex interplay between job stressors, lack of recovery, and poor well-being. Research in organizational behavior. 2018;38:169-85.
Other Identifiers
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AFA230022_1
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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