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

NCT06818539 | Not Yet Recruiting DMC

• 2 other identifiers: EHSREC2024_06_02KEEPCARING #101137244
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 650
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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

Conditions

Stress; Burnout

Keywords

stress; burnout; resilience; crosssectional; healthcare workers; nurses; doctors; surgeons; observational; healthcare professionals; work stress

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Resilience scores among hospital-based doctors and nurses

  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.

  5 months

Study Arms (1)

Doctors and nurses

Hospital-based doctors and nurses, surgical as well as non-surgical pathways

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 66 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Hospital-based doctors and nurses across the European Union

You may qualify if:

• Hospital-based nurses and doctors

You may not qualify if:

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Limerick: lead
• Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA): collaborator
• Rigshospitalet, Denmark: collaborator
• Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Department of Psychology

Limerick, V94 XD21, Ireland

Location

Related Publications (3)

• Greville-Harris M, Withers C, Wezyk A, Thomas K, Bolderston H, Kane A, McDougall S, Turner KJ. Association of resilience and psychological flexibility with surgeons' mental wellbeing. BJS Open. 2024 Jul 2;8(4):zrae060. doi: 10.1093/bjsopen/zrae060.

  PMID: 39041733 BACKGROUND

• Cha YJ, Lee KS, Cho JH, Choi IS, Lee D. Effect of Job Stress on Burnout among Nurses Responding to COVID-19: The Mediating Effect of Resilience. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Apr 29;19(9):5409. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19095409.

  PMID: 35564803 BACKGROUND

• Morgan KH, Libby NE, Weaver AK, Cai C. Development of an early warning resilience survey for healthcare organizations. Heliyon. 2019 Nov 1;5(10):e02670. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02670. eCollection 2019 Oct.

  PMID: 31720458 BACKGROUND

Related Links

• This study is part of a larger EU-funded project called KEEPCARING: Future Proofing Health- and Care Systems Safeguarding Healthcare Workers in Hospital Settings.

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Burnout, Psychological; Occupational Stress

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Stress, Psychological; Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior; Occupational Diseases

Study Officials

• Stephen Gallagher, PhD

  University of Limerick

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Stephen Gallagher, PhD

CONTACT

+35361234899; Stephen.Gallagher@ul.ie

Trina Tamrakar, PhD

CONTACT

Trina.Tamrakar@ul.ie

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 28, 2025
• First Posted: February 10, 2025
• Study Start: February 1, 2025
• Primary Completion: July 31, 2025
• Study Completion: July 31, 2025
• Last Updated: February 10, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

IE (1)