STRAIN - Work-related Stress Among Health Professionals in Switzerland (STRAIN)

July 14, 2020 updated by: Sabine Hahn
The aim of this study is to identify work stressors, stress reactions and long-term consequences among nurses, physicians, medical-technical and medical-therapeutic professions in Switzerland and to reduce those factors by an educational intervention for the supervisors.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Methods: This study is a cross-sectional design and randomly selected hospitals, nursing homes and home care organizations. The study sample included nursing staff and midwives, physicians, medical-technical and medical-therapeutic professionals at all hierarchical levels. Data were collected using self-report questionnaires and analysed using multiple regression models.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

8112

Phase

  • Not Applicable

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 to 67 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Employee within a participating health organization in Switzerland
  • Health care professional (nurse, medical-technical medical-therapeutical profession, physician)

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Health professionals without an fixed employment contract

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: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention

Intervention group (IG)

An educational intervention for the supervisors
Other: educational intervention for the supervisors
The educational intervention is based on a systematic literature review as well as focus-group interviews with health care professionals. It will be developed until the end of 2018
No Intervention: Control
control group (CG)
No Intervention: Non-Intervention
group without intervention (GWI)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
effort reward imbalance model (ERI)
Time Frame: Changes in self reported results of the ERI from t1 to t2 (1 year)
The model defines threatening job conditions as a "mismatch between high workload (high demand) and low control over long-term rewards"
Changes in self reported results of the ERI from t1 to t2 (1 year)

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Sabine Hahn

Collaborators

University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland

Investigators

  • Study Director: Sabine Hahn, Bern University of Applied Sciences Switzerland

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 (Actual)

January 1, 2017

Primary Completion (Actual)

June 1, 2018

Study Completion (Actual)

December 1, 2019

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 23, 2018

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 24, 2018

First Posted (Actual)

April 26, 2018

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

July 16, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 14, 2020

Last Verified

July 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • J.008137-42-PFLW

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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