Recognizing and Preventing Burnout

January 31, 2018 updated by: Paolo Banfi, Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus

Recognizing and Preventing Burnout: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

The purpose of this study is to prevent burnout and offer the hospital staff a space for processing the emotional experiences.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

20

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Italy
      • Milan, Italy, 20148
        • Paolo Banfi

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Doctors, physiotherapists, nurses and care workers
  • Be a Professional Worker at the Rehabilitation Respiratory Unit
  • Age > 18 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Refusal at the Informed Consent

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Psychological Intervention
All the professionals workers involved in the experimental group will attend three intensive psychological meetings about emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, low personal accomplishment and how to improve coping skills.
Behavioral: Psychological Intervention
No Intervention: Control Group
There is not any intervention.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Changes in burnout, as assessed by the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) (Maslach C., 1981) between baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2)
Time Frame: At the baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2)
At the baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Changes in coping strategies as assessed by the Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (COPE) (Carver et al., 1989) between baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2)
Time Frame: At the baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2)
At the baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2)
Changes in psychological symptoms as assessed by the Symptom Checklist-90-R (Prunas et al., 2012) between baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2)
Time Frame: At the baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2)
At the baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2)

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

June 1, 2016

Primary Completion (Actual)

August 1, 2017

Study Completion (Actual)

January 1, 2018

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 4, 2016

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 6, 2016

First Posted (Estimate)

July 7, 2016

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

February 1, 2018

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 31, 2018

Last Verified

January 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • FDG_BURN01_HP

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

Undecided

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