Decreasing On-Shift Stress With a Crisis Intervention Cart

July 23, 2025 updated by: Methodist Health System
This Intervention study anticipates that 100 nurses, patient care technicians and unit secretaries in the acute care setting at four Methodist Health System facilities will provide surveys to participants who had interventions

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Once the intervention has been used, the participants will complete a survey in order to determine if stress levels are decreasing. Initial data collection will be over the course of two months ( April 1, 2022 through June 1, 2022) and participation will vary based upon staffing and the set criteria for Crisis Intervention Cart deployment.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

443

Phase

  • Phase 3

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

  • United States
    • Texas
      • Dallas, Texas, United States, 75203
        • Methodist Dallas Medical Center

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

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Part of MHS (i.e., MCMC, MMMC, MRMC, MDMC, MLMC, MSMC)
  • The hospital has at least one Crisis Intervention Cart study clinical site investigator on-staff
  • Hold license as a Registered Nurse OR
  • Hold position as a patient care technician or unit secretary
  • Must be able to read English
  • Provide direct patient care or hold a unit-based leadership position (i.e., Nursing Clinical Coordinator, Nurse Manager, Clinical Team Lead)
  • Full-time, part-time, or PRN employee

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Hospitals and clinical units will be excluded if they are outside MHS
  • Participants will be excluded if they at Director-level or above

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

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Crisis Intervention Cart
To determine if a Crisis Intervention Cart filled with evidence-based stress-reducing interventions does reduce stress experienced during a shift.
Combination product: Aromatherapy patches
This study anticipates that Staff-reported stress levels will decrease when nurses use strategies from the Crisis Intervention Cart while at work.
Other Names:
  • Crisis Intervention Cart deployment.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Crisis Intervention Cart
Time Frame: Period of 2 months
The Effect of Crisis Intervention Cart filled with evidence-based stress-reducing interventions on reducing stress experienced during a shift using surveys. A 10-point Likert scale will be used with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest on the scale with 10 having highest level of self-perceived stress.
Period of 2 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Type of intervention/strategy used
Time Frame: Period of 2 months
The Effect of Crisis Intervention Cart filled with evidence-based stress-reducing interventions on reducing stress experienced during a shift using surveys. A 10-point Likert scale will be used with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest on the scale with 10 having the highest level of self-perceived stress.
Period of 2 months

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Methodist Health System

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Cheyenne Ruby, DNP, Methodist Health System

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 (Actual)

March 6, 2023

Primary Completion (Actual)

January 31, 2024

Study Completion (Actual)

June 30, 2025

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 6, 2023

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 6, 2023

First Posted (Actual)

July 13, 2023

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

July 25, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 23, 2025

Last Verified

July 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 006.NUR.2022.A

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

Yes

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

Yes

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

Yes

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