STRAIN - Work-related Stress Among Health Professionals in Switzerland

Stress Clinical Trial

— STRAIN  

Official title:

STRAIN - Work-related Stress Among Health Professionals in Switzerland

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03508596
• Other study ID #: J.008137-42-PFLW
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2017
• Est. completion date: December 2019

Study information

• Verified date: July 2020
• Source: Bern University of Applied Sciences
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of this study is to identify work stressors, stress reactions and long-term consequences among nurses, physicians, medical-technical and medical-therapeutic professions in Switzerland and to reduce those factors by an educational intervention for the supervisors.

Description:

Methods: This study is a cross-sectional design and randomly selected hospitals, nursing homes and home care organizations. The study sample included nursing staff and midwives, physicians, medical-technical and medical-therapeutic professionals at all hierarchical levels. Data were collected using self-report questionnaires and analysed using multiple regression models.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 8112
• Est. completion date: December 2019
• Est. primary completion date: June 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 67 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Employee within a participating health organization in Switzerland

• Health care professional (nurse, medical-technical medical-therapeutical profession, physician)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Health professionals without an fixed employment contract

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Health Care Professionals
• Occupational Stress
• Stress
• Work-Related Condition

Intervention

Other:
• educational intervention for the supervisors
The educational intervention is based on a systematic literature review as well as focus-group interviews with health care professionals. It will be developed until the end of 2018

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Sabine Hahn	University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	effort reward imbalance model (ERI)	The model defines threatening job conditions as a "mismatch between high workload (high demand) and low control over long-term rewards"	Changes in self reported results of the ERI from t1 to t2 (1 year)