Advanced Practice Provider Intervention Study to Promote Wellness

April 5, 2024 updated by: Colleen J Klein

A Pilot Intervention Study to Promote Wellness in Advanced Practice Providers (APPs)

This exploratory pilot study is designed as interventional study to examine the efficacy of a wellness initiative that involves use of a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) to assist in the development of diverse coping strategies such as management of stressors, self-care, time management, and any other goals, problems or concerns that APPs would like assistance with during the intervention period.

Study Overview

Status

Recruiting

Detailed Description

The purpose of this study is to evaluate an educational professional wellness program designed to assist professional clinicians in developing self-awareness and self-care choices as a means to improve engagement and resilience and to avoid/reduce burnout.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

300

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 Contact

Study Contact Backup

Study Locations

    • Illinois
      • Peoria, Illinois, United States, 61602
        • Recruiting
        • OSF HealthCare System
        • Contact:
          • Colleen J Klein, PhD, APRN

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 68 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • employment within non-profit health care setting as a health care professional
  • working at least 50% of time in direct patient care
  • availability and interest in initial and follow-up wellness visits

Exclusion Criteria:

  • actively participating in formalized counseling sessions through other services at time of recruitment into the study

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

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Educational Intervention
Educational intervention
Professional wellness counseling sessions provided to health care professionals through voluntary enrollment. Consultative sessions will conducted throughout the course of 1 year and number of subsequent sessions will be determined by the participant.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Holmes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory; The Social Readjustment Rating Scale
Time Frame: change from baseline stress measure at 1 year and 2 years.
The Holmes-Rahe Scale is used to life changes that may impact stress. Minimum values =150 pts or less; maximum values = 300 pts. or more; higher scores indicate higher susceptibility to stress-induced health problems.
change from baseline stress measure at 1 year and 2 years.
The Brief Resilience Scale
Time Frame: change from baseline in resilience measure at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years.
The Brief Resilience Scale developed by Smith et al. (2008) is used to measure resilience. Minimum value =6 and maximum value = 30; mean value is used to determine scoring with higher value indicating more resilience.
change from baseline in resilience measure at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years.
The Work and Well-being Survey (UWES)© Engagement Scale
Time Frame: change from baseline engagement measure at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years.
Work engagement is measured using the Utrecht Work and Well-being Survey Engagement instrument (UWES). The minimum value =0 and the maximum value = 54. Mean is used to determine scoring. Higher value indicates greater work engagement.
change from baseline engagement measure at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years.
Advanced Practice Provider Well-being Index
Time Frame: change from baseline well-being measure at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years.
measures the increased probability of distress risk for personal or professional consequences. Minimum value =0 and maximum value =7. Mean and standard deviation is computed and compared to normative data.
change from baseline well-being measure at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years.

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Colleen Klein, PhD, RN, OSF HealthCare System

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

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 (Actual)

December 21, 2022

Primary Completion (Estimated)

December 31, 2025

Study Completion (Estimated)

December 31, 2027

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

February 14, 2023

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 14, 2023

First Posted (Actual)

February 24, 2023

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 8, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 5, 2024

Last Verified

April 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

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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