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NCT Number: NCT07298018

A Pilot Study of RISE for Nurse Managers Retreat

The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility and acceptability of the RISE for Nurse Managers retreat and its impact on occupational and psychological well-being indicators

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

AdventHealth

Orlando, Florida, 32804, United States

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Amanda Sawyer, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

Amanda Sawyer, PhD

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Tere Richard, MHSA

CONTACT

[email protected]

About this study

The RISE program is an empirically supported wellbeing intervention for nurses and nurse leaders delivered over 8 or 9 weeks in 90-minute weekly sessions facilitated by a licensed mental health professional. The program themes are Resilience, Insight, Self-Compassion, and Empowerment. This study will be to examine the feasibility and acceptability of delivering the program in a retreat style format over 2.5 days.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • an employed AdventHealth Nurse Manager
  • a "moderate" or "high" score in burnout equal to ≥17 in the Emotional Exhaustion Domain and/or ≥7 in the Depersonalization Domain on the MBI

Exclusion criteria

  • a direct care RN, Nurse Director, Educator, and Executive
  • a "low" score in burnout equal to <17 in the Emotional Exhaustion domain and/or <7 in the Depersonalization domain on the MBI

Treatment and study plan

Intervention Group

Behavioral

Psychoeducational group program designed to impact occupational and psychological indicators including resilience, insight, self-compassion, empowerment, burnout and secondary trauma

Primary outcomes

  1. Maslach Burnout Inventory - Human Services Survey

    Time frame: Baseline, 1-month follow-up, 3-month follow-up, 6-month follow-up

    22-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 0=never, 1=a few times a year or less, 2=once a month or less, 3=a few times a month, 4=once a week, 5=a few times a week, 6=every day. MBI includes 3 dimensions of Burnout: Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, and Personal Accomplishment. There are 9 items included in Emotional Exhaustion and scores can range from 0-54. There are 5 items included in Depersonalization and scores can range from 0-30. There are 8 items included in Personal Accomplishment and scores can range from 0-48. Higher scores on Emotional Exhaustion and Depersonalization and lower scores on Personal Accomplishment are indicative of Burnout

Secondary outcomes

  1. Professional Quality of Life Scale

    Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up

    30-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=never, 2=rarely, 3=sometimes, 4=often, 5=very often. PROQOL includes 3 dimensions: Compassion Satisfaction, Burnout, and Secondary Traumatic Stress. Each subscale includes 10 items and scores can range from 10-50. For Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress, lower scores are better. Sums of 10-22 = low level, 23-41 = average level, and 42-50=high level of Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress. For Compassion Satisfaction, higher scores are better. Sum of 10-22=low level, 23-41=average level, and 42-50=high level of Compassion Satisfaction.

  2. Brief Resilience Scale

    Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up

    6-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=strongly agree, 2=disagree, 3=neutral, 4=agree, 5=strongly agree. Sum of items can range from 6-30, which is then divided by 6 to get an average score. Higher score is better, with 1-2.99 = low resilience, 3-4.3 = normal resilience, and 4.31-5.0 = high resilience.

  3. Self-Reflection and Insight Scale

    Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up

    20-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=strongly disagree, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6=strongly agree. Six items are included in Self-Reflection and scores can range from 6-42, with higher scores indicating a greater self-reflection. Six items are included in Insight, and scores can also range from 6-42 with higher scores indicating more Insight.

  4. Self-Compassion Scale Short Form

    Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up

    12-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=almost never, 2, 3, 4, 5=almost always. Scores are added and then averaged. While the average score is to be used comparatively, score 1.0-2.49 is considered low, 2.5-3.5 is considered moderate, and 3.51-5.0 is considered high.

  5. General Self-Efficacy Scale

    Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up

    10-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=not at all true, 2=barely true, 3=moderately true, 4=exactly true. Item scores are added together and then averaged with higher scores indicating more self-efficacy.

  6. Perceived Stress Scale

    Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up

    10-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 0=never, 1=almost never, 2=sometimes, 3=fairly often, 4=very often. The total score ranges from 0 to 40 with higher scores indicating greater perceived stress.

  7. Generalized Anxiety Disorder - 2 item scale

    Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up

    2-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 0=not at all, 1=several days, 2=more than half the days, 3=nearly every day. Total score range is 0 to 6 and a score of 3 or higher suggests possible anxiety.

  8. Patient Health Questionnaire - 2 item

    Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up

    2-item scale with the following response categories: 0=not at all, 1=several days, 2=more than half the days, 3=nearly every day. Total score range is from 0 to 6, and a score of 3 or more indicates possible depressed mood.

  9. Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory

    Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up

    21-item scale scored using six-point responses: zero ("I did not experience this change as a result of my crisis") to five ("I experienced this change to a very great degree as a result of my crisis"). Total score range is 0 to 105, which higher scores indicating more post traumatic growth.

  10. Psychological Empowerment Instrument

    Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up

    12-item measure that assesses empowerment in the workplace using a 7-point Likert response scale. Four aspects are measured: meaning, competence, self-determination, and impact. Total score range from 12 to 84, with higher scores indicating greater psychological empowerment.

  11. Employment Status

    Time frame: 12-month post-program

    Human Resources Data

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Amanda T. Sawyer, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

407-200-2901

Amy West, RN

CONTACT

[email protected]

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

AdventHealth

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Dec 22, 2025
Registry last updated
Feb 19, 2026

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