The Resilience Alliance

Secondary Traumatic Stress Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Resilience Alliance

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02521571
• Other study ID #: 12-00568
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 7, 2015
• Last updated: June 21, 2016
• Start date: December 2011
• Est. completion date: July 2012

Study information

• Verified date: June 2016
• Source: New York University School of Medicine
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The Resilience Alliance is a skill-based staff development intervention for child protective staff that focuses on improving job satisfaction, resilience, optimism and social support, while decreasing attrition, stress reactivity and burnout. The investigators believe that the intervention will enhance the capacity of child welfare workers to care for themselves, which will result in them providing better care for the children and families involved with the child welfare system.

The Resiliance Alliance will be implemented in two child protective offices, Manhattan Zone C and Brooklyn Zone B. Staff from two additional offices (Staten Island Zone A and Brooklyn Zone C) will serve as a control group. A web-based survey will be administered in the group receiving the Resiliance Alliance intervention prior to intervention, at completion of the intervention, and 3 months post completion. The control group will be given a two-part training (3 hours in total) on secondary traumatic stress. The control group will then be asked to complete the same survey as the intervention group.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 357
• Est. completion date: July 2012
• Est. primary completion date: July 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Administration for Children's Services (ACS) employees working at one of four offices: Manhattan Zone C, Brooklyn Zone B, Staten Island Zone A and Brooklyn Zone C

• Adults aged 18 years or older

• English-speaking

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Supportive Care

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Compassion Fatigue
• Secondary Traumatic Stress

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Resiliance Alliance
The intervention is 6 months long & is delivered through weekly sessions held in the participating child protective offices. The sessions follow a 4-week cycle with the participants changing each week of the cycle: (1) CPS alone, by units; (2) CPS/Supervisor units; (3) Child Protective Manager and CPS/Supervisor units; and (4) CPSs & Supervisors/Managers separately. Participating staff are introduced to a resilience-related topic or skill, and receive a brief didactic training on that topic. Staff then engage in a group activity, which is designed to help them apply the new topic or skill to the workplace. Each module wraps up with a relaxation or exercise to help staff transition back into their work responsibilities; the facilitator can pick among the selection provided based on their sense of what would be helpful for the group. Staff are also given handouts and activities to do during the week.
• Secondary traumatic stress training
These trainings will take place in two parts (for a total of 3 hours) and include an overview of secondary traumatic stress and its impact on child welfare staff, and some strategies staff can use to protect themselves from STS - essentially a "summary" version of what the intervention group will receive over the 24 weeks of the intervention. The investigators consider this training to represent "treatment as usual," as from our experience it is often how child welfare agencies address the issue of secondary traumatic stress among their staff.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Bronx ACS Borough Office	Bronx	New York
United States	Brooklyn ACS Borough Office	Brooklyn	New York
United States	Manhattan ACS Borough Office	New York	New York
United States	Staten Island ACS Borough Office	Staten Island	New York

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
New York University School of Medicine

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in Survey Over Time	The survey results will be compared between the two groups at three different timepoints as listed above	At baseline, upon conclusion of the intervention (6 months), and 3 months post-intervention	No