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NCT Number: NCT03645707

Resilience Insight Self Compassion and Empowerment (RISE) Pilot

The purpose of this pilot study is to determine whether the combination of the Corporate Athlete® Resilience (CAR) Training Program and follow-up psychoeducational group sessions has significant impact on nurses' resilience and stress mindset in their personal lives and their working environment. Knowledge from this study can be applied to interventions in the future to improve resilience behavior.

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Key information

Conditions

Stress

Age range

18 year–99 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

AdventHealth

Orlando, Florida, 32804, United States

About this study

The ongoing nursing shortage in the U.S health care system is a multifaceted issue. One factor leading to the nursing shortage is high turnover, particularly among critical care nurses due to their experiences with stressful work environments, ethical dilemmas, and high rates of patient morbidity and mortality. There is also a high prevalence of psychological disorders, such as anxiety, depression, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among critical care nurses. Consequences of turnover and low nurse staffing include lower quality of care, lower patient satisfaction, increased medical errors, increased rates of health care associated infections, and higher 30-day mortality rates.

Resilience is defined as "the ability to adapt to life's ever-changing landscape and recover quickly from the stressors and potential stressors". It is a learned psychological characteristic that can be used to bounce back after disruption and successfully adapt to stressful work experiences in a positive manner.

The Corporate Athlete® Resilience (CAR) Training Program is a 1-day training program that uses a holistic approach that focuses on moving between stress and strategic recovery to help build resilience and enable higher performance.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Adult ≥ 18 years old.
  • Employed as a critical care nurse at Florida Hospital in an adult ICU, PICU, PCVICU, or Level 3 NICU.
  • Able to speak, read, and understand English fluently.
  • Able to provide informed consent.
  • Receive a high score of ≥ 27 on the Emotional Exhaustion domain and/or a high score of ≥ 13 on the Depersonalization domain of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) as part of Florida Hospital IRBNet #1234568.
  • Willing to attend a full-day training program at HPI on the designated training date.
  • Willing and able to comply with all study procedures and requirements for the duration of the study.

Exclusion criteria

  • At imminent risk of harm to themselves or others

Treatment and study plan

CAR Training and Psychoeducational Sessions

Behavioral

Participation in the CAR Training Program, a 1-day training program developed by the J&J Human Performance Institute (HPI). The CAR Training Program uses a holistic approach that focuses on moving between stress and strategic recovery to help build resilience and enable higher performance.

Participants will attend eight weekly follow-up psychoeducational group sessions facilitated by a licensed mental health counselor that will meet for 90 minutes. The themes of these sessions will be RISE - Resilience, Insight, Self-Compassion, and Empowerment. Due to limited time and flexibility in sessions, participants will practice skills through optional homework activities to facilitate learning between sessions.

Primary outcomes

  1. Stress Mindset Measure - General (SMM-G)

    Time frame: Change from Baseline SMM-G score at 6-months post CAR Training

    Participants will respond to an 8-item questionnaire measuring stress. Responses will be provided on the following 5-point scale: 0=Strongly Disagree, 1=Disagree, 2=Neither Agree nor Disagree, 3=Agree, 4=Strongly Agree.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)

    Time frame: Change from Baseline PSS score at 6-months post CAR Training

    Participants will respond to a 10-item questionnaire measuring perceived stress. Responses will be provided on the following 5-point scale: 0=Never, 1=Almost Never, 2=Sometimes, 3=Fairly Often, 4=Very Often.

  2. Brief Resilience Scale (BRS)

    Time frame: Change from Baseline BRS score at 6-months post CAR Training

    Participants will respond to a 6-item questionnaire measuring resilience. Responses will be provided on the following 5-point scale: 1=Strongly Disagree, 2=Disagree, 3=Neutral, 4=Agree, 5=Strongly Agree.

  3. Maslach Burnout Inventory Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS) for Medical Personnel (MP)

    Time frame: Change from Baseline MBI-HSS (MP) score at 6-months post CAR Training

    Participants will respond to a 22-item questionnaire measuring burnout. Responses will be provided on the following 7-point scale: 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=Everyday.

  4. Public Health Surveillance - Wellbeing Scale (PHS-WB)

    Time frame: Change from Baseline PHS-WBscore at 6-months post CAR Training

    Participants will respond to a 10-item questionnaire measuring perception of personal well-being and satisfaction. Responses will be provided on a 5-point scale (6 items) and a 10-point scale (4 items).

  5. RAND Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) Sleep Scale Survey

    Time frame: Change from Baseline RAND MOS Sleep Scale score at 6-months post CAR Training

    Participants will respond to a 12-item questionnaire with self-reported information related to sleep patterns. Responses will be provided on the following 6-point scale: 1=All of the time, 2=Most of the time, 3=A good bit of the time, 4=Some of the time, 5=A little of the time, 6=None of the time.

  6. RAND 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    Time frame: Change from Baseline SF-36 score at 6-months post CAR Training

    Participants will respond to a 36-item questionnaire with self-reported health ratings and perceived impact of one's health on a variety of daily activities. Response options for questionnaire items vary from 3-point scale, 5-point scale, and Yes/No responses.

  7. Absenteeism and Presenteeism questions of the World Health Organization's Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (WHO-HPQ)

    Time frame: Change from Baseline WHO-HPQ score at 6-months post CAR Training

    Participants will respond to 11 absenteeism and presenteeism questions abstracted from the full HPQ. Responses for 2 items require self-reported information regarding hours worked and hours the employer expects the participant to work in 7 days. 6 items require participants to provide work experience information from the past 4 weeks. Responses for 3 items are provided on a 10-point scale in which 0=Worst Performance, and 10=Top Performance. Responses are input into a provided formula for scoring; a higher absenteeism score indicates higher amount of absenteeism, while a higher presenteeism score indicates lower amount of lost performance.

  8. Work Productivity and Activity Impairment Questionnaire (WPAI)

    Time frame: Change from Baseline WPAI score at 6-months post CAR Training

    Participants will respond to a 6-item questionnaire, answering questions about the perceived effect of personal health problems on one's ability to work or perform activities. Responses are provided in a Yes/No format or using a 10-point scale in which 0=Health problems had no effect on my work and 10=Health problems completely prevented me from working.

  9. Self-Reflection and Insight Scale (SRIS)

    Time frame: Change from Baseline SRIS score at 6-months post CAR Training

    Participants will respond to a 20-item questionnaire using a 6-point scale where 1=Strongly disagree and 6=Strongly agree.

  10. Self-Compassion Scale - Short Form (SCS-SF)

    Time frame: Change from Baseline SCS-SF score at 6-months post CAR Training

    Participants will respond to a 12-item questionnaire, indicating how often certain behaviors are personally experienced when in difficult times. Responses are provided on 5-point scale in which 1=Almost never and 5=Almost always.

  11. Psychological Empowerment Instrument

    Time frame: Change from Baseline Psychological Empowerment Instrument score at 6-months post CAR Training

    Participants will respond to a 12-item questionnaire to items regarding self-orientations people may have with regard to their work role. Responses are provided on the following 7-point scale: 1=Very strongly disagree, 2=Strongly disagree, 3=Disagree, 4=Neutral, 5=Agree, 6=Strongly Agree, 7=Very Strongly Agree.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

AdventHealth

Other

Registry information

Official study title

A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Resilience Intervention With Psychoeducational Sessions for Critical Care Nurses

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Aug 24, 2018
Registry last updated
Feb 28, 2022

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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