Burnout and Approach to Bereavement Initiatives in a Medical Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

NYU Langone Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burnout, Professional

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Survey

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03398460

17-01695

Details and patient eligibility

About

Given the stress, exhaustion and close interface with death that Intensive Care Unit (ICU) health care providers face, this study will evaluate burnout rates in intensive care unit (icu) physicians, nurses and ancillary staff. Investigators will also study the effect on a bereavement card on these burnout rates

Full description

This study will evaluate:

1. Burnout rates among nurses and ancillary staff with the Abbreviated Maslach burnout inventory. This is a well validated tool that is used to evaluate symptoms of burnout such as denationalization, emotional exhaustion and lack of personal accomplishment.
2. Burnout rates at the beginning of and at the end of the house staff's ICU rotation to gauge the effect of an ICU rotation on burnout rates amon medical trainees.
3. Determine whether the introduction of a bereavement card will improve symptoms of burnout as gauged by the abbreviated maslach burnout inventory
4. Staff perceptions and response to the introduction of a bereavement

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Health care providers who work in the Bellevue Hospital Medical ICU

Exclusion criteria

• NA

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

Health Care Providers

Other group

Description:

Bellevue hospital Medical Intensive Care Unit; 30 Nurses and 50 physcians

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Survey