Can Massage During One Year Improve Health in Health-care Providers Working in Hospital

The overall aim of this pilot study is to investigate the effect, "feasibility" and experiences of regular massage over 12 months on the mental and physical health of healthcare professionals, as well as the frequency of layoffs, sick leave and reported patient safety risk cases, as well as health economics

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Quality of Life; Psychological Distress; Massage Therapy; Health-care Workers
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Massage

Detailed Description

A pilot and "feasibility" study with pre-post design. 50 health care professionals from the Medical Clinic, Vrinnevi Hospital in Norrköping are included. The participants perform 10 30 minute sessions of classic Swedish massage during 12 months by a certified masseur. Mental and physical health data is collected using questionnaires, blood and body weight. Data on layoffs, sick leave and patient safety risks are taken from the hospital's data register. Data regarding the participants' experience of receiving massages is collected during interviews.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 50
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Lena Ekströn, Manager; Phone Number: 010-1043519; Email: Lena.Ekstrom@regionostergotland.se
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Peter Johansson, Professor; Phone Number: +46460700896548; Email: peter.b.johansson@liu.se

Study Locations

• Sweden
  • Norrköping, Sweden, 601 74
    • Recruiting
    • Linköping University
    • Contact: Lena Ekströn; Phone Number: 0101043519; Email: Lena.Ekstrom@regionostergotland.se
    • Contact: Peter PJ Johansson, PhD; Email: peter.b.johansson@liu.se
  • Linköpings Universitet
    • Norrköping, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden, 601 74
      • Recruiting
      • Peter Johansson
      • Contact: Peter Johansson; Phone Number: +46460700896548; Email: peter.b.johansson@liu.se
      • Contact: Lena Ekströn; Phone Number: 0101043519; Email: Lena.Ekstrom@regionostergotland.se

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

Working at least for 50 % of fulltime

Main task working with patient care in the hospital ward

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Massage; 30 minutes of classical swedish massage given by a certified masseur 10 times monthly during 12 months	Other: Massage; 10 times of 30 minutes Swedish classical Massage will be given monthly during one year. The massage will be give by a cerified masseur

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Symptoms of stress	Percieved Stress Scale-10	change in Percieved Stress Scale-10 mean score from baseline (start of massage) to 12 months (end of massage). Score can range from 0 to 40. A higher score means more stress
Symptoms of depression	Patient Health Questionnaire-9	change in Patient Health Questionnaire-9 mean score from baseline (start of massage) to 12 months (end of massage). Score can range from 0 to 27. A higher score means more depressive symptoms
Sleeping problems	Insomnia Severity Index	change in Insomnia Severity Index mean score from baseline (start of massage) to 12 months (end of massage). Score can range from 0 to 28. A higher score means more sleeping problmes
Symptoms of anxiety	General Anxiety Disorder-7	change in General Anxiety Disiorder mean score from baseline (start of massage) to 12 months (end of massage). Score can range from 0 to 21. A higher score means more anxiety

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Staff turnover	Sick leave days	the number of sick leave days during the 12 months internvetion period will be compared to the numbers of sicke leave days the previous year. Data will be collected from the hospitals datajournal system
Health Related Quality of life	The RAND-36	change in the eight health concept scores and the two summary component scores of the RAND-36 from baseline (start of massage) to 12 months (end of massage). Scores range from 0 to 100. A higher score means a better health related quality of life
Global Quality of life	Visual Analog Scale from EQ-5D	change in Visual Analog Scale from EQ-5D score from baseline (start of massage) to 12 months (end of massage). The scale ranges from 0 to 100. A higher score means a better quality of life

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital, Linkoeping
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Peter Johansson, Professor, Linköpings Universiet

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 20, 2022
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): March 1, 2024
• Study Completion (Anticipated): December 30, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 15, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 22, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): September 26, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): February 16, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 15, 2023
• Last Verified: February 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2020-01140

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: At our university we have not yet any plan on how to deal with GDPR and sharing 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