Exploring ProQOL, Health Status, Job Involvement and Turnover in Medical Professionals

Intention to Stay, Turnover Behavior Clinical Trial

Official title:

Exploring the Correlation of ProQOL, Health Status, Job Involvement, Intention to Stay and Turnover Behaviour in Medical Professionals

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03385811
• Other study ID #: CRREC-106-085
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: December 21, 2017
• Last updated: December 21, 2017
• Start date: January 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: November 2017
• Source: China Medical University Hospital
• Contact: Li-Chi Huang
• Phone: 886-4-22053366
• Email: lichi[@]mail.cmu.edu.tw
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

The study design is a cross-sectional study. Purposive sampling will be conducted in three hospitals in the central of Taiwan. The participants will include physicians, nurse practitioners and nurses. The number of 550 participants will be recruited. The measurements are questionnaires include demographic data, professional quality of life scale (ProQOL), Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ), SF-36 and intention to stay questionnaire.

Description:

Medical and Nursing care is a high-pressure work environment. The charterer of medical and nursing care includes urgency of patients' problems, an unpredictable number of patients, and lack of medical professionals. This high-level of pressure working environment not only affects the persons' physical and mental health, increase turnover rate, but also might indirectly reduce the quality of care, even threaten the life of patients.

The purpose of this study is to explore the correlation between professional quality of life, health status, job involvement and intention to stay in medical professionals, and the predictive factors of intention to stay and turnover behavior.

The study design is a cross-sectional study. Purposive sampling will be conducted in three hospitals in the central of Taiwan. The participants will include physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses. The number of 550 participants will be recruited. The measurements are questionnaires include demographic data, professional quality of life scale (ProQOL), Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ), SF-36 and intention to stay questionnaire.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 550
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: May 31, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Aged over 20 years old

2. Currently serving as a hospital care provider

3. Job title as attending physician, resident, nurse practitioners, nurse

4. Directly practicing in patients' care

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Medical Director

2. Clinical Researcher

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Intention to Stay, Turnover Behavior

Intervention

Other:
• no intervention, only questionnaires survey
questionnaires survey

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
China Medical University Hospital

References & Publications (5)

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Hinderer KA, VonRueden KT, Friedmann E, McQuillan KA, Gilmore R, Kramer B, Murray M. Burnout, compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, and secondary traumatic stress in trauma nurses. J Trauma Nurs. 2014 Jul-Aug;21(4):160-9. doi: 10.1097/JTN.000000000 — View Citation

Hunsaker S, Chen HC, Maughan D, Heaston S. Factors that influence the development of compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction in emergency department nurses. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2015 Mar;47(2):186-94. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12122. Epub 2015 Jan 20 — View Citation

Mason VM, Leslie G, Clark K, Lyons P, Walke E, Butler C, Griffin M. Compassion fatigue, moral distress, and work engagement in surgical intensive care unit trauma nurses: a pilot study. Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2014 Jul-Aug;33(4):215-25. doi: 10.1097/DCC.00 — View Citation

Neville K, Cole DA. The relationships among health promotion behaviors, compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction in nurses practicing in a community medical center. J Nurs Adm. 2013 Jun;43(6):348-54. doi: 10.1097/NNA.0b013e3182942c23. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	professional quality of life scale	Professional quality of life scale consists of compassion satisfaction (CS), burnout(BO), and secondary traumatic stress (compassion fatigue, CF)	within past 30 days
Primary	Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ)	Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ) includes 4 items	within past 30 days
Primary	SF-36	36 items	within past 30 days
Primary	intention to stay questionnaire	6 items	within past 30 days