Psychological Stress Clinical Trial
— ICOPOfficial title:
A Randomized Controlled Evaluation of a Compassion-course With the Aim of Reducing Stress of Conscience and Work-related Stress and Increase Levels of Professional Quality of Life and Self-compassion in Healthcare Professionals
The aim is to investigate whether an internet-based compassion course of five modules contributes to reducing stress of conscience and work-related stress, increase the experience of professional quality of life and self-compassion in healthcare professionals.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 548 |
Est. completion date | July 1, 2025 |
Est. primary completion date | December 31, 2024 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 20 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: The inclusion criteria will be as follows: the participants work directly with patients full-time or part-time, score 45 points or higher on the primary outcome measure Stress of Conscience Questionnaire (SCQ), are proficient in Swedish, have the requisite time to attend a digital course, and accept the course's format. The exclusion criteria include being partially or fully on sick leave due to stress. All criteria are assessed on the basis of self-assessment forms of the participants, but in case of uncertainty, follow-up questions can be done by phone. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Sweden | Linnaeus University, Department of Psychology | Växjö | Kronoberg |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Linnaeus University | Kalmar County Council, Kronoberg County Council, Sormland County Council, Sweden, Vastra Gotaland Region |
Sweden,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Other | Sick leave | Sick leave from MIDAS registry, from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency | Number of periods of sick leave according the registry MIDAS from week 5 after baseline until week 52 after baseline. | |
Other | Satisfaction with treatment | Questions of satisfaction with the internet-based course and treatment credibility scale. | Week 5 after baseline | |
Primary | Change (from baseline) in Stress of conscience | Stress of Conscience Questionnaire (SCQ). The purpose of the SCQ is to estimate stress related to a troubled conscience. The questionnaire consists of nine items describing different healthcare situations, each made up of two parts, an A question and a B question. The A question concerns how frequently the subject estimates that the situation discussed arises in the workplace. This is assessed on a 6-point Likert scale, where 0 is 'Never' and 5 stands for 'Every day'. For each A question, there is a B question following it, in which the degree to which the conscience is troubled in the given situation is estimated on a 10 cm visual analogue scale. The visual analogue scale ranges from 0 = 'No, it gives me no troubled conscience at all' to 5 = 'Yes, it gives me a very troubled conscience'. | 0, 5, 10 and 15 weeks and 6 months after baseline | |
Secondary | Change (from baseline) in Professional quality of life | Professional quality of life scale (PROQOL) Professional quality of life is the quality one feels in relation to their work as a helper. Both the positive and negative aspects of doing one's job influence ones professional quality of life. Professional quality of life incorporates two aspects, the positive (Compassion Satisfaction) and the negative (Compassion Fatigue). Compassion fatigue breaks into two parts. The first part concerns things such like exhaustion, frustration, anger and depression typical of burnout. Secondary Traumatic Stress is a negative feeling driven by fear and work-related trauma. Some trauma at work can be direct (primary) trauma. In other cases, work-related trauma be a combination of both primary and secondary trauma. The PROQOL consists of 30 questions assessed on a 5-point Likert scale, where 0 is 'Never' and 5 stands for 'Very often'. | 0, 5, 10 and 15 weeks and 6 months after baseline | |
Secondary | Change (from baseline) in Work-related stress | Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ), assessing psychosocial factors at work, stress, and the well-being of employees. | 0, 5, 10 and 15 weeks and 6 months after baseline | |
Secondary | Change (from baseline) in Self-compassion | Self-compassion scale (SCS) consists of 26 items, assessed on a 5-point Likert scale, where 0 is 'Almost never' to 5 for 'Almost always'. | 0, 5, 10 and 15 weeks and 6 months after baseline |
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