Evaluation of a Psychological Capital Intervention to Alleviate Burnout and Regulate Immunity Among Oncology Nurses

Psychological Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluation of a Psychological Capital Intervention to Alleviate Burnout and Regulate Immunity Among Oncology Nurses: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05510414
• Other study ID #: PCI burnout
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: August 2022
• Source: Guangxi Medical University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Burnout appears to be highly prevalent among oncology nurses, which was a problem not only for the nurses themselves but for the patients for whom they provide care. How to mitigate and prevent burnout and improve nursing performance outcomes is an urgent problem for nursing manager. In a sample of 99 oncology nurses, immunological characteristics were compared to burnout scores. In a randomized trial, 90 oncology nurses suffering burnout were randomized to receive psychological capital intervention or routine psychological care. Participants were assessed before and after treatment using measures of burnout, psychological capital and immunological characteristics.

Description:

Burnout appears to be highly prevalent among oncology nurses, which was a problem not only for the nurses themselves but for the patients for whom they provide care. And burnout-associated biomarkers remain controversial, and their potential roles in burnout are still unclear. This study was a randomized controlled trial in which the independent variable was group psychological intervention, while the dependent variables were pre- and post-intervention scores on the Maslach burnout inventory and on the psychological capital scale, as well as values for various immunological indicators. In Stage 1 of the study, recruited subjects completed the psychological capital questionnaire and blood was sampled. In Stage 2, the research team administered a custom-designed psychological capital intervention (PCI) to part of the sample, while the other part received routine care . The PCI group received 1 h of counseling twice weekly for a total of 24 weeks in total. In Stage 3, the PCI and control groups completed the questionnaires again and provided blood samples.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 87
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: December 30, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 55 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects were officially employed and licensed nurses who had been working in the cancer hospital for at least 2 years.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subjects had recently suffered personal health problems or significant negative life events, such as the death or serious illness of a family member, or if they were on maternity leave or other types of leave from their nursing job.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Burnout
• Burnout, Psychological
• Psychological

Intervention

Behavioral:
• psychological intervention based on psychological capital
Psychological capital would be modified via various training programs in order to manage burnout among nurses. When the four core psychological resources are combined, they may form a higher-order construct that predicts attitudes and performance more strongly than any of the four components by themselves .

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
China	Affiliated Tumor of Guangxi University	Nanning	Guangxi

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Guangxi Medical University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

China, 

References & Publications (3)

An M, Shin ES, Choi MY, Lee Y, Hwang YY, Kim M. Positive Psychological Capital Mediates the Association between Burnout and Nursing Performance Outcomes among Hospital Nurses. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Aug 18;17(16). pii: E5988. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17165988. — View Citation

Ciobanu AM, Damian AC, Neagu C. Association between burnout and immunological and endocrine alterations. Rom J Morphol Embryol. 2021 Jan-Mar;62(1):13-18. doi: 10.47162/RJME.62.1.02. — View Citation

Luo YH, Li H, Plummer V, Cross WM, Lam L, Guo YF, Yin YZ, Zhang JP. An evaluation of a positive psychological intervention to reduce burnout among nurses. Arch Psychiatr Nurs. 2019 Dec;33(6):186-191. doi: 10.1016/j.apnu.2019.08.004. Epub 2019 Aug 19. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	scores on Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS)	change of the MBI scores, which ranges from 0 to 6, with higher scores indicating more severe burnout.	baseline and 6 months
Secondary	scores on Positive psychological capital Questionnaire (PPQ),	change of the PPQ scores, , which ranges from 1 to 6, with higher scores indicating higher level of psychological capital.	baseline and 6 months