Interprofessional Group Intervention to Enhance Compassion Satisfaction and Resilience

Resilience Clinical Trial

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Official title:

An Exploratory Study Examining Use of the Oxygen for Caregivers® Program

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04888000
• Other study ID #: 1684111
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 29, 2021
• Est. completion date: November 1, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: November 2023
• Source: OSF Healthcare System
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate an educational professional development program designed to assist health care professionals in developing self-awareness and self-care choices as a means to avoid compassion fatigue and improve resilience.

Description:

Professional caregivers are at risk of compassion fatigue due to the nature of their work and repeated exposure over time to work-related stressors. Symptoms of compassion fatigue may include decreased concentration/productivity, increased sick days, and high turnover rates which directly effect patient satisfaction and safety. Lack of data that supports this use of program, though anecdotally, it has been endorsed and benefits from its use are described. Quality of patient care, workforce engagement, and financial effects from turnover of staff are viewed as negative impacts from compassion fatigue.

Our study seeks to extend the body of knowledge with regard to use of a particular resilience program that has shown some promise in a small pilot study.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 11
• Est. completion date: November 1, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: June 27, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• employment within inpatient or outpatient setting in non-profit healthcare system as a healthcare professional

• Professional direct caregivers (nurses, physicians, advanced practice providers, social workers, counselors, chaplains, respiratory therapists, pharmacists

Exclusion Criteria:

• actively participating in or plans to participate in any other formalized mindfulness-based stress reduction program during the time period of the study

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Compassion Fatigue
• Fatigue
• Resilience

Intervention

Other:
• Educational Intervention
Professional development program provided to small groups of health care professionals in three different sessions over a period of one month with additional independent individual work to be completed between sessions.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	OSF HealthCare System	Peoria	Illinois

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
OSF Healthcare System

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (10)

Ang SY, Hemsworth D, Uthaman T, Ayre TC, Mordiffi SZ, Ang E, Lopez V. Understanding the influence of resilience on psychological outcomes - Comparing results from acute care nurses in Canada and Singapore. Appl Nurs Res. 2018 Oct;43:105-113. doi: 10.1016/j.apnr.2018.07.007. Epub 2018 Jul 26. — View Citation

Austin CL, Saylor R, Finley PJ. Moral distress in physicians and nurses: Impact on professional quality of life and turnover. Psychol Trauma. 2017 Jul;9(4):399-406. doi: 10.1037/tra0000201. Epub 2016 Oct 31. — View Citation

Cavanagh N, Cockett G, Heinrich C, Doig L, Fiest K, Guichon JR, Page S, Mitchell I, Doig CJ. Compassion fatigue in healthcare providers: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Nurs Ethics. 2020 May;27(3):639-665. doi: 10.1177/0969733019889400. Epub 2019 Dec 12. — View Citation

Fortney L, Luchterhand C, Zakletskaia L, Zgierska A, Rakel D. Abbreviated mindfulness intervention for job satisfaction, quality of life, and compassion in primary care clinicians: a pilot study. Ann Fam Med. 2013 Sep-Oct;11(5):412-20. doi: 10.1370/afm.1511. — View Citation

Huey CWT, Palaganas JC. What are the factors affecting resilience in health professionals? A synthesis of systematic reviews. Med Teach. 2020 May;42(5):550-560. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2020.1714020. Epub 2020 Jan 25. — View Citation

Kelly L, Runge J, Spencer C. Predictors of Compassion Fatigue and Compassion Satisfaction in Acute Care Nurses. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2015 Nov;47(6):522-8. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12162. Epub 2015 Aug 19. — View Citation

Klein CJ, Riggenbach-Hays JJ, Sollenberger LM, Harney DM, McGarvey JS. Quality of Life and Compassion Satisfaction in Clinicians: A Pilot Intervention Study for Reducing Compassion Fatigue. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2018 Jun;35(6):882-888. doi: 10.1177/1049909117740848. Epub 2017 Nov 23. — View Citation

McKinley N, Karayiannis PN, Convie L, Clarke M, Kirk SJ, Campbell WJ. Resilience in medical doctors: a systematic review. Postgrad Med J. 2019 Mar;95(1121):140-147. doi: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2018-136135. Epub 2019 Mar 29. — View Citation

Potter P, Deshields T, Berger JA, Clarke M, Olsen S, Chen L. Evaluation of a compassion fatigue resiliency program for oncology nurses. Oncol Nurs Forum. 2013 Mar;40(2):180-7. doi: 10.1188/13.ONF.180-187. — View Citation

Smith BW, Dalen J, Wiggins K, Tooley E, Christopher P, Bernard J. The brief resilience scale: assessing the ability to bounce back. Int J Behav Med. 2008;15(3):194-200. doi: 10.1080/10705500802222972. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL) Version 5	Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL) Version 5 Compassion Fatigue Subscale	Change from baseline compassion fatigue subscale measure at 1 and 6 months assessed by compassion fatigue subscale of ProQOL 5 [ Time Frame: Data collected before the program starts and one month after the end of the program and six months
Primary	Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL) Version 5	Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL) Version 5 Burnout Subscale	Change from baseline burnout subscale measure at 1 and 6 months assessed by burnout subscale of ProQOL 5 [ Time Frame: Data collected before the program starts and one month after the end of the program and six months
Primary	Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL) Version 5	Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL) Version 5 Compassion Satisfaction Subscale	Change from baseline compassion satisfaction subscale measure at 1 and 6 months assessed by compassion satisfaction subscale of ProQOL 5 [ Time Frame: Data collected before the program starts and one month after the end of the program and six months
Primary	Brief Resilience Scale	Resilience will be measured using the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) a 6-item scale developed by Smith et al.(2008).	Change from baseline in resilience measure at 1 month and 6 months assessed by BRS scale [ Time Frame: Data collected before the program starts and one month after the end of the program and six months