CCSH (Compassion-Centered Spiritual Health) for Teams

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

80 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-09-24

Study Completion Date

2026-11-01

Brief Summary

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Emory Spiritual Health has developed a Compassion-Centered Spiritual Health group-based intervention, called CCSH Interventions for Teams, and are enrolling staff and providers into the groups in this randomized study design. The groups will meet once every other week for 60 minutes for 8 weeks (4 sessions total).

The investigators will evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of this novel team-based intervention that includes mindfulness and compassion-based approaches with mixed-role oncology teams. Employees (n = 80; nurses, advanced practice providers (APPs), physicians, staff) working at an NCI- designated Comprehensive Cancer Center will be randomized by team (8-12 employees/group) to Compassion Centered Spiritual Health Team Intervention (CCSH-TI) or TAU (Treatment as Usual) group. The research objective is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of CCSH-TI, and to develop and validate a novel, low-burden ambulatory assessment "toolkit" to improve the measurement of psychological safety and burnout.

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Detailed Description

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Current interventions to reduce provider burnout are only minimally effective. To overcome the barriers to achieving success in burnout prevention interventions, the investigators propose Compassion Centered Spiritual Health Team Intervention (CCSH-TI), a 4-session intervention delivered by healthcare chaplains to mixed-role interprofessional teams that includes mindfulness and compassion-based approaches to bolster resilience, compassion for self and others, and psychological safety. The research team will conduct a mixed-method feasibility and acceptability study of CCSH-TI with mixed-role oncology teams. Employees (n = 80; nurses, advanced practice providers (APPs), physicians, staff) working at an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center will be randomized by team (8-12 employees/group) to CCSH-TI or to TAU (Treatment as Usual) group, who has access to all well-being resources and activities available to them as employees. Self-report surveys and focus group discussions will be used to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of CCSH-TI. The investigators will also collect self-report surveys, ecological momentary assessments (EMA), and the electronically activated recorder (EAR) data at 3 timepoints (before CCSH-TI (T1), immediately after completion of CCSH-TI (T2), and 12-weeks after completion (LT), and characterize data completion to evaluate the feasibility of data collection methods for a future randomized control trial. Informed consent will be obtained from study participants in-person. The duration of the study will be 22-23 weeks (from consent to completion of data collection).

Conditions

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Health Behavior

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

This is a longitudinal, randomized pilot study of 80 employees working in inter-professional oncologic teams. Employees will be randomized by team (using a random number generator in Microsoft Excel) to receive CCSH-TI or to a TAU "treatment as usual" (TAU) group.

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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CCSH-TI Group

4-session intervention of 60- minutes each delivered every other week by healthcare chaplains to mixed-role inter-professional teams that includes mindfulness and compassion-based approaches to bolster resilience, compassion for self and others, and psychological safety.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Compassion Centered Spiritual Health Team Intervention (CCSH-TI)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Delivered to healthcare teams by spiritual health clinicians proficient in group facilitation. It is composed of 4 sessions delivered every other week and lasting 60 minutes each.

CCSH-TI sessions teach participants to attune to their interpersonal relationships; acknowledge and allow difficult emotions; and access compassion. It also provides psychoeducation about skillful coping strategies. Each session consists of didactic material about team norms and safety, a feeling check-in, facilitated group discussions about social connection and professional team building, and meditations to promote mindfulness, to cultivate a feeling of being nurtured, and to access compassion for self and others. CCSH-TI is delivered to healthcare teams by spiritual health clinicians proficient in group facilitation.

TAU (treatment as usual) group

Participants in this group will have access to all well-being resources and activities available to them as employees.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Treatment as Usual

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

TAU refers to the current buffet of wellness and professional development activities that are available to employees at the Winship Cancer Institute.

Interventions

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Compassion Centered Spiritual Health Team Intervention (CCSH-TI)

Delivered to healthcare teams by spiritual health clinicians proficient in group facilitation. It is composed of 4 sessions delivered every other week and lasting 60 minutes each.

CCSH-TI sessions teach participants to attune to their interpersonal relationships; acknowledge and allow difficult emotions; and access compassion. It also provides psychoeducation about skillful coping strategies. Each session consists of didactic material about team norms and safety, a feeling check-in, facilitated group discussions about social connection and professional team building, and meditations to promote mindfulness, to cultivate a feeling of being nurtured, and to access compassion for self and others. CCSH-TI is delivered to healthcare teams by spiritual health clinicians proficient in group facilitation.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Treatment as Usual

TAU refers to the current buffet of wellness and professional development activities that are available to employees at the Winship Cancer Institute.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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CCSH-TI TAU Standard of Care

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Full-time employees working in oncology teams at Winship Cancer Institute;
* Employees working in intensive care at Emory University St. Joseph hospital.