Decreasing On-Shift Stress With a Crisis Intervention Cart

NCT05944120 | Completed Phase 3 DMC FDA Drug FDA Device

• 1 other identifier: 006.NUR.2022.A
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 443
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This Intervention study anticipates that 100 nurses, patient care technicians and unit secretaries in the acute care setting at four Methodist Health System facilities will provide surveys to participants who had interventions

Conditions

Decreasing On-Shift Stress With a Crisis Intervention Cart

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Crisis Intervention Cart

  The Effect of Crisis Intervention Cart filled with evidence-based stress-reducing interventions on reducing stress experienced during a shift using surveys. A 10-point Likert scale will be used with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest on the scale with 10 having highest level of self-perceived stress.

  Period of 2 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Type of intervention/strategy used

  Period of 2 months

Study Arms (1)

Crisis Intervention Cart

EXPERIMENTAL

To determine if a Crisis Intervention Cart filled with evidence-based stress-reducing interventions does reduce stress experienced during a shift.

Combination Product: Aromatherapy patches

Interventions

Aromatherapy patches COMBINATION_PRODUCT

This study anticipates that Staff-reported stress levels will decrease when nurses use strategies from the Crisis Intervention Cart while at work.

Also known as: Crisis Intervention Cart deployment.

Crisis Intervention Cart

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 75 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Part of MHS (i.e., MCMC, MMMC, MRMC, MDMC, MLMC, MSMC)
• The hospital has at least one Crisis Intervention Cart study clinical site investigator on-staff
• Hold license as a Registered Nurse OR
• Hold position as a patient care technician or unit secretary
• Must be able to read English
• Provide direct patient care or hold a unit-based leadership position (i.e., Nursing Clinical Coordinator, Nurse Manager, Clinical Team Lead)
• Full-time, part-time, or PRN employee

You may not qualify if:

• Hospitals and clinical units will be excluded if they are outside MHS
• Participants will be excluded if they at Director-level or above

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Methodist Health System: lead

Study Sites (1)

Methodist Dallas Medical Center

Dallas, Texas, 75203, United States

Location

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  PMID: 30066352 BACKGROUND

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Study Officials

• Cheyenne Ruby, DNP

  Methodist Health System

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 3
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: As noted in the background, resiliency-building activities appear to have a positive relationship with managing stress in the workplace. Additionally, offering a variety of strategies is anticipated to increase the sample size and encourage continued use of the strategies over time.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 6, 2023
• First Posted: July 13, 2023
• Study Start: March 6, 2023
• Primary Completion: January 31, 2024
• Study Completion: June 30, 2025
• Last Updated: July 25, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-07

Locations

US (1)