Stress and Coping, Resilience, and Compassion Fatigue of Front-line Nurses During COVID-19 Pandemic

Mental Health Issue Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Correlation of Stress and Coping, Resilience, and Compassion Fatigue of Nurses Staying on Front-line During COVID-19 Outbreak in Taiwan

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05205564
• Other study ID #: 202106153RINB
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: January 25, 2022
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: January 2022
• Source: National Taiwan University
• Contact: YI-CHEN YEH, Bachelor
• Phone: +886937928876
• Email: R08426007[@]ntu.edu.tw
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a cross-sectional research. The investigators plan to recruit about 250 front-line nurses who provided direct care to COVID-19 confirmed cases in a medical center in Taiwan. Online querstionnaires are used to collect the data. The relationship between variables such as stressors related to COVID-19, coping status, resilience, and compassion fatigue of participants will be analysis to provide the direction of nurses' mental health-related interventions.

Description:

This project aims to identify the prevalence of compassion fatigue and the coping strategies for the nurses who work on the frontline of healthcare and are responsible for caring for patients with COVID-19 in Taiwan. The investigators planed to carry a cross-sectional study by a reliable and valid online questionnaire to explore the stressors related to COVID-19, coping status, resilience, and compassion fatigue of nurses who had the experience of caring for the COVID-19 confirmed cases in a medical center during the community outbreak in Taiwan from May 2021. Online questionnaires are used to collect the data. About two hundred and fifty nurses will be recruited, and the data will be analyzed by descriptive statistics, correlation statistics and Hayes's PROCESS model 6. It is expected that the research results can understand the current status and relationship of compassion fatigue, resilience and the adaptability of clinical nurses who are caring for the COVID-19 confirmed cases. The results can be contributed to develop the direction of nurses' mental health-related interventions during pandemic of emerging contagious disease.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 250
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: June 30, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Above/include 20-year-old.

• Those who can operate mobile communication software or computers and can fill in online questionnaires.

• Clinical nurses who had provided nursing care for COVID-19 confirmed cases from May 2021.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Those who did not provide nursing care for COVID-19 confirmed cases.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Compassion Fatigue
• COVID-19
• COVID-19 Pandemic
• Fatigue
• Mental Health Issue
• Stress, Psychological

Intervention

Other:
• This is a cross-sectional research design.
No intervention will be involved in the study.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	School of Nursing of National Taiwan University	Taipei
Taiwan	National Taiwan University Hospital	Taipei City	Zhongzheng Dist.
Taiwan	National Taiwan University Hospital	Taipei City	Zhongzheng Dist.

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Taiwan University	National Taiwan University Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Interaction effect between research variables	Factors including "stressors related to COVID-19", "stress coping", "resilience", and "compassion fatigue" have interaction effect.	six months to collect and analysis data.
Primary	Moderation effect between research variables	Both "stress coping" and "resilience" moderate the strength relationship between "stressors" and "compassion fatigue".	six months to collect and analysis data.