Nurses' Foot Health and Work Well-being

Foot Clinical Trial

Official title:

Nurses' Foot Health and Work Well-being - Development and Testing of an Electronic Foot Health Program

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03116451
• Other study ID #: 116464
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: May 2018
• Source: University of Turku
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study supports and promotes work well-being of nursing personnel from the perspective of foot health in health care organizations. Half of the participants will receive an electronic foot health education program to improve their foot self-care knowledge, while the other will receive anything. The outcomes of this project include recommendations and tested educational program to occupational health care for improving foot health of nurses.

Description:

An electronic Foot Health Promoting Program (FHPP) will be tested with nurses using quasi-experimental study design.

The participants will be assigned to experimental (N=130) and comparison (N=130) groups. The experimental group will receive an electronic intervention (Foot Health Promotion Program) for 8 weeks consisting of foot self-care guidance (skin and nail self-care), foot exercises, foot stretching and professional footwear guidance. Detailed components of the intervention will be produced on the bases of survey (part 1) results. The intervention (Figure 3) will be electronic via internet (Moodle platform) where a material package of foot health care will be delivered. Each participant will receive a user account to platform. The platform is divided into four main themes all related to foot health. Each theme consists of two topics of foot health. Each topic includes lectures (delivered via Adobe Presenter) and self-directed learning where participant will go through a list of links to websites (will be evaluated with certain criteria beforehand) and watch videos about foot self-care. In addition, the learning will be evaluated using four individual tasks related to foot self-care. By responding to task a participant will receive an example of the correct answer and using that he/she can evaluate own response and learn by that. Participants' use of different links (quantity) and their paths in the intervention platform will be calculated and analysed. The participants will be tested before the intervention (baseline) and one month (follow-up 1) and four (follow-up 2) months after the intervention. The primary outcome is foot health knowledge and secondary outcomes are foot health, musculoskeletal problems, work ability, health-related quality of life and work satisfaction. Hypothesis is: Increasing nurses' knowledge about foot health will improve their foot health and work ability. Ultimate goal is to develop tools for the occupational health care and improve the attention paid to feet as part of the work ability among nurses.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 56
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: November 29, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• nurses (registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, public health nurses) working in the operating theatre

Exclusion Criteria:

• other health care professionals

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Foot
• Nurses

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Foot Health Promoting Program
An electronic intervention for 8 weeks consisting of foot self-care guidance targeted to nurses.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Finland	University of Turku	Turku

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Turku	Finnish Work Environment Fund, Turku University Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Finland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change from Baseline Foot self-care knowledge at 4 and 12 weeks	Measured with Foot Self-Care Knowledge Questionnaire including 11 questions using a "true," "false," or "don't know" response options.	baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks
Secondary	Change from Baseline Foot health at 4 and 12 weeks	Self-reported foot health questionnaire (SFHQ) will be modified for this study. It will measure self-reported foot health consisting of five subscales: skin, nails, foot structure, foot pain and professional footwear.	baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks
Secondary	Change from Baseline Musculoskeletal Disorders at 4 and 12 weeks	Nordic Questionnaire measures musculoskeletal disorders in neck, shoulders, upper back, elbows, low back, wrists/hands, hips/thighs, knees and ankles/feet.	baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks
Secondary	Change from Baseline Foot health Status at 4 and 12 weeks	Foot Health Status Questionnaire measures foot health related to quality of life. There are 4 subscales: foot pain (4 questions), foot function (4 questions), footwear (3 questions), and general foot health (2 questions).	baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks
Secondary	Change from Baseline Work Ability Score at 4 and 12 weeks	Work Ability Score, assesses workers self-assessed work ability (one item with 0-10 scale)	baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks