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NCT Number: NCT06818539

Burnout and Resilience in Hospital-based Nursing and Medical Personnel and Trainees

Aims to look at associations between work stress, burnout and resilience in hospital-based nurses and medical professionals in several EU countries.

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Key information

Conditions

Stress Behavior Behavioral Symptoms Burnout Burnout, Psychological Occupational Diseases Occupational Stress Stress, Psychological

Age range

18 year–66 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Department of Psychology

Limerick, V94 XD21, Ireland

Location contact

Stephen Gallagher, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

+35361234899 ext. 4899

Stephen Gallagher, PhD

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Trina Tamrakar, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

Trina Tamrakar, PhD

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

About this study

Healthcare professionals, in particular, hospital-based nursing and medical staff, especially surgical specialities, are experiencing symptoms of burnout as never before. Within healthcare, job commitment is at stake leading to staff shortages which places further stress on the health care system, creating a vicious cycle of stressful work environment.

This is the context of the present study, and our aim is to explore quantitatively how factors like resilience, work-setting factors like job support, autonomy and leadership contribute to burnout in hospital-based nursing and medical personnel. These factors have been found to be predictive of burnout with few studies looking at synergistic interactions between these predictors. A survey design will be used for quantitative data collection. This study will also include qualitative interview-based study to complement the quantitative study.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Hospital-based nurses and doctors

Exclusion criteria

  • Non-hospital based healthcare professionals, under 18 and over 66, non-medical hospital staff

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. Resilience scores among hospital-based doctors and nurses

    Time frame: 5 months

    Resilience will be measured with Short Resilience Survey (SRS), an 8-item short resilience scale developed for healthcare workers. This measure consists of two subscales, Activation and Decompression. An examples of Decompression items include "can enjoy my personal time without focusing on work matters" and Activation "I care for all patients/clients equally even when it is difficult." These measures exist independent of employee engagement, indicating an empirical distinction between the two concepts. Response categories on the items (with 1 =Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree), with higher scores indicating better Activation and Decompression ability.

Study contacts

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

Stephen Gallagher, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

+35361234899 ext. 4899

Trina Tamrakar, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Limerick

Other

Collaborators

  • Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA)
  • Rigshospitalet, Denmark
  • Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

Registry information

Official study title

Burnout in Hospital-based Nursing and Medical Personnel and Trainees: A Mixed Methods Approach

Acronym: RESIST

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2025
Study completion
2025
First posted
Feb 10, 2025
Registry last updated
Feb 10, 2025

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