An Online 5-week Professional Identity Group Psychotherapy

An Online 5-week Professional Identity Group Psychotherapy for Nursing Student During Clinical Rotation Practice

This is an online 5-week group psychological intervention for the nursing students during clinical rotation practice. It aims at promoting the professional identity and career sefl-efficacy for them.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Identification (Psychology)
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: An online 5-week professional identity group psychotherapy; Other: Message push

Detailed Description

Those 110 participants come from two classes in the same grade. One will be randomly allocated as the intervention group, the other will be control group. The intervention will be delivered via an online meeting software, like Zoom. The control group will received five messages fo self care messages forward by the researcher.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 110
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• China
  • Shanghai
    • Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 20023
      • School of Nursing, Fudan University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Full time nursing student
• During clinical rotation practice
• Able to comprehend the intervention

Exclusion Criteria:

• Visual impairment
• Absent more than twice of the intervention

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Group psychotherapy group; Students will be intervened by an online 5-week professional identity group psychotherapy.	Behavioral: An online 5-week professional identity group psychotherapy; This is an online 5-week group psychological intervention for the nursing students during clinical rotation practice. It aims at promoting the professional identity and career sefl-efficacy for them. There are five sessions in the intervention, and each session lasts from 60min to 90min at each week. The intervention will be delivered via an online meeting software, like Zoom. There will be 15-20 students in one meeting group.
Other: Controlled message push group; Students will receive online messages of self-care knowledge forward by researchers.	Other: Message push; Controlled group will receive online messages of self-care knowledge forward by researchers once per week. The knowledge contain stress regulation, strategies for relaxation, self-protection during clinical practice.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Professional identity	Professional identity in recent one week measured by Chinese Profession identity scale for nursing student, ranging from 17 to 85, with higher score reflects higher level of idnetity.	We will measure the score of professional identity before intervention and immediately after intervention.
Career self-efficacy	Career self-efficacy in recent one week measured by the Chinese career self-efficacy scale for nursing student, ranging from 27-135, with higher score reflects higher level of career self-efficacy.	We will measure the score of career self-efficacy before intervention and immediately after intervention.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Stress	A reflection of one's perceived stress in recent month measured by the subscale from the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21). The score rangs from 0-21, with higher score reflects higher level of stress.	We will measure the score of stress before intervention and immediately after intervention.
Resilience	Resilience in recent one week measured by the Chinese version of Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-10. The score ranges from 0-40, with higher score reflects higher level of resilience.	We will measure the score of resilience before intervention and immediately after intervention.

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
General rating	Several descriptive question to gather the feedback of the intervention. Each question will be rated from 0 to 5, with higher score reflects higher level of satisfaction.	We will measure this immediately after intervention.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Central South University
• Collaborators: Fudan University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Anni Wang, Dr., School of Nursing, Fudan University

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Ohlen J, Segesten K. The professional identity of the nurse: concept analysis and development. J Adv Nurs. 1998 Oct;28(4):720-7. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1998.00704.x.
• Kirpal, S.J.C.D.I., Work identities of nurses: Between caring and efficiency demands. 2004.
• Roberts SJ. Development of a positive professional identity: liberating oneself from the oppressor within. ANS Adv Nurs Sci. 2000 Jun;22(4):71-82. doi: 10.1097/00012272-200006000-00007.
• Megginson LA. RN-BSN education: 21st century barriers and incentives. J Nurs Manag. 2008 Jan;16(1):47-55. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2934.2007.00784.x.
• Cook TH, Gilmer MJ, Bess CJ. Beginning students' definitions of nursing: an inductive framework of professional identity. J Nurs Educ. 2003 Jul;42(7):311-7. doi: 10.3928/0148-4834-20030701-08.
• Hunter B, Segrott J. Re-mapping client journeys and professional identities: a review of the literature on clinical pathways. Int J Nurs Stud. 2008 Apr;45(4):608-25. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2007.04.001. Epub 2007 May 23.
• Yamagishi M, Kobayashi T, Nakamura Y. Effects of web-based career identity training for stress management among Japanese nurses: a randomized control trial. J Occup Health. 2008;50(2):191-3. doi: 10.1539/joh.l7086. No abstract available.
• Kunzler AM, Helmreich I, Konig J, Chmitorz A, Wessa M, Binder H, Lieb K. Psychological interventions to foster resilience in healthcare students. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020 Jul 20;7(7):CD013684. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013684.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 10, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 13, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): June 20, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 30, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 3, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): June 4, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 21, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 20, 2020
• Last Verified: May 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Resilience; Professional identity; Career self-efficacy
• Other Study ID Numbers: 5-week Identity intervention

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No
• IPD Plan Description: The participants are not willing to share the data.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No