Emotional Labor, Physical Labor and Mental Labor of Hospice Care Nurses: A Mixed-method Study

Hospitalism Clinical Trial

Official title:

Emotional Labour, Mental Labour, Self-efficacy and Potential Influencing Factors of Hospice Care Nurses During COVID-19: A Mixed-method Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05608512
• Other study ID #: NMU22_1101
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: February 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: November 30, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: December 2022
• Source: Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Hospice care is a nurse-led multidisciplinary team care that provides physical, mental, and social care to end-of-life patients. According to the WHO, the role of hospice nurses is addressing suffering involves taking care of issues beyond physical symptoms, to support patients and their caregivers. Different from other disease care, hospice nurses face end-of-life patients and their families. As the primary nursing contact of a dying family, hospice nurses have a more intense and complex emotional experience. In China, with the improvement of human rights protection awareness, the nurse-patient relationship is particularly important, and the social requirements for nursing workers are also getting higher and higher. In addition, hospice nurses not only provide physical and psychological care to patients, but also provide comprehensive care to families of end-of-life patients. It is not just the mental work of learning expertise and dealing with emergency situations, and the physical labor of caring for large numbers of patients; but also requires emotional labor that has rarely been recognized before. When facing end-of-life patients and their families, it is particularly important to express appropriate emotions and pay emotional labor.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: November 30, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: October 30, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• The inclusion criteria were nurses working as registered nurses for 6 months or more.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Nurses who were not directly involved in patient care (e.g., central sterile supply department nurses), and intern nurses were excluded.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Hospitalism

Intervention

Other:
• interview
The first phase included a qualitative study. We conducted a qualitative phenomenological method to better explicate and understand palliative care nurses' emotional labor experiences, as well as the dilemmas and solutions they encounter when physical, mental, and emotional labor intertwine at work. In the early stage, we compiled an interview outline by a written qualitative meta-analysis about the emotional labor, and added the contents in the interview outline according to the actual situation in the later interview process.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
China	Wu Ye	Nanjing	Jiangsu

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Country where clinical trial is conducted

China, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Chinese version scale of emotional labor	The ELS for nurses was developed by Hong and Kim (Hong & Kim, 2018), which is a 16-item scale using a five-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 5 (very true), with a total score ranging from 16 to 80. Higher scores indicate higher levels of emotional labor.	1 day
Primary	Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale -21 (DASS-21)	Chinese version of DASS-21 has a total of 21 items and measures three negative emotional experiences of depression, anxiety and stress (Jiang et al., 2021).	1 day