STRAIN - Work-related Stress Among Health Professionals in Switzerland

The aim of this study is to identify work stressors, stress reactions and long-term consequences among nurses, physicians, medical-technical and medical-therapeutic professions in Switzerland and to reduce those factors by an educational intervention for the supervisors.

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Key information

Conditions

Stress Health Care Professionals Work-Related Condition

Age range

18 year–67 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

About this study

Methods: This study is a cross-sectional design and randomly selected hospitals, nursing homes and home care organizations. The study sample included nursing staff and midwives, physicians, medical-technical and medical-therapeutic professionals at all hierarchical levels. Data were collected using self-report questionnaires and analysed using multiple regression models.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Employee within a participating health organization in Switzerland
Health care professional (nurse, medical-technical medical-therapeutical profession, physician)

Exclusion criteria

Health professionals without an fixed employment contract

Treatment and study plan

educational intervention for the supervisors

Other

The educational intervention is based on a systematic literature review as well as focus-group interviews with health care professionals. It will be developed until the end of 2018

Primary outcomes

effort reward imbalance model (ERI)

Time frame: Changes in self reported results of the ERI from t1 to t2 (1 year)

The model defines threatening job conditions as a "mismatch between high workload (high demand) and low control over long-term rewards"

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Sabine Hahn

Other

Collaborators

University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland

Registry information

Acronym: STRAIN

Important dates

Study start: 2017
Primary completion: 2018
Study completion: 2019
First posted: Apr 26, 2018
Registry last updated: Jul 16, 2020

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