The WISER Study: Web Based Methods for Enhancing Resilience

Burnout Clinical Trial

Official title:

The WISER Study: Web Based Methods for Enhancing Resilience

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05636072
• Other study ID #: Pro00063703
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: December 2023
• Source: Duke University
• Contact: John B Sexton, PhD
• Phone: +1 919 681 4949
• Email: bryan.sexton[@]duke.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a research study to find out if web-based resilience tools can increase well-being.

Enrolled participants will try out one or more brief positive psychology tools. The tools ask participants to reflect on positive experiences or to do an activity (e.g., write a letter of gratitude). The study is entirely online and participants will be prompted to participate via email or text messages.

The study team is interested in the effects of the tools on stress, depression, and burnout in adults. A set of brief surveys are administered before and after using the tool, and again at follow-up periods (e.g., 1, 3, 6 and 12 months). Surveys are collected electronically using the secure, HIPAA-compliant survey software.

There is no direct benefit to participants for participating in this research study aside from the potential to experience improvements in well-being. Risks are minimal and include the potential to feel emotional or psychological distress when asked questions related to burnout.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 8000
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adults 18 and over are considered eligible for the study. A sub-sample will include employees (including but not limited to frontline caregivers, support staff and management) of the Duke University Health System, as well as external health systems. All participants will be invited to participate in one or more of the online tools. The investigators will allow the participation of any clinical areas/healthcare worker groups whose leaders express interest in building resilience. The investigators are targeting healthcare workers for recruitment in the study, but adults 18+ are eligible to participate in any of these tools. Identification as a healthcare worker or not is part of data collection in every tool.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Adults who are not proficient in English, do not have basic computer skills, or who have prohibitive vision or hearing disabilities will be excluded from this study as they will be incapable of full participation in the intervention and/or the survey process.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Burnout
• Burnout, Psychological

Intervention

Behavioral:
• WISER
Participants will engage in one or more positive psychology well-being tool(s).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Duke University Health System	Durham	North Carolina

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Duke University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (3)

Adair KC, Kennedy LA, Sexton JB. Three Good Tools: Positively reflecting backwards and forwards is associated with robust improvements in well-being across three distinct interventions. J Posit Psychol. 2020;15(5):613-622. doi: 10.1080/17439760.2020.1789707. Epub 2020 Jul 9. — View Citation

Profit J, Adair KC, Cui X, Mitchell B, Brandon D, Tawfik DS, Rigdon J, Gould JB, Lee HC, Timpson WL, McCaffrey MJ, Davis AS, Pammi M, Matthews M, Stark AR, Papile LA, Thomas E, Cotten M, Khan A, Sexton JB. Randomized controlled trial of the "WISER" intervention to reduce healthcare worker burnout. J Perinatol. 2021 Sep;41(9):2225-2234. doi: 10.1038/s41372-021-01100-y. Epub 2021 Aug 9. — View Citation

Seligman ME, Steen TA, Park N, Peterson C. Positive psychology progress: empirical validation of interventions. Am Psychol. 2005 Jul-Aug;60(5):410-21. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.60.5.410. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in Emotional Exhaustion as measured by the 5-item Emotional Exhaustion Scale	Survey scores are measured on a 1-5 Likert-like agreement scale.	Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups
Secondary	Change in Emotional Recovery as measured by the 4-item Emotional Recovery Scale	Survey scores are measured on a 1-5 Likert-like agreement scale.	Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups
Secondary	Change in Work-life Integration as measured by the 7-item Work-life Integration Scale	Survey scores are measured with a 1-4 frequency of behaviors scale.	Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups