Effect of in Situ Simulation on Quality of Work Life and Multiprofessional Team Effectiveness in the Intensive Care Unit (EFFIQUASS)

University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Simulation; Quality of Work Life; Burn-out

Treatments: Procedure: In-situ simulation; Other: Questionnaires; Other: Role-playing using a simulation scenario

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06944821

RECHMPL24_0497

Details and patient eligibility

About

The lack of specific, personalized training for intensive care workers can lead to a deterioration in quality of life at work, and can result in burnout, absenteeism or wanting to leave the service. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of in situ simulation on quality of work life and the effectiveness of multi-professional teamwork in intensive care.

Full description

Paramedics in intensive care are particularly exposed to the risk of burnout, which is multifactorial (psychologically and physically challenging environment, life-threatening emergency context, etc.). Personal assistance professions require a high level of compassion, leading to a positive feeling of compassionate satisfaction, i.e. the satisfaction of helping others. Compassion fatigue leads to a reduction in job satisfaction, culminating in burnout. Factors negatively influencing compassion satisfaction are the absence of specific and adapted training, or the lack of support from the hierarchy. Among the pedagogical tools available, in situ simulation could be used to respond to a specific and personalized training request from a care department. The study will be carried out in the cardio-thoracic intensive care unit at Montpellier University Hospital, comparing 2 groups to assess the effect of simulation on paramedics. Paramedics will be randomized into 2 groups, with stratification on diploma (nursing assistant or nurse): group A benefiting from a simulation program, and group B not benefiting from it during the study.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Paramedical staff (nurse and nursing assistant) in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit at Montpellier University Hospital.
• Acceptance of being filmed for direct video transcription during the intervention

Exclusion criteria

• Refusal of consent or inability to give consent (guardianship, curatorship)
• Paramedics intending to leave the department before the end of the study.
• Not affiliated to a French social security scheme or not a beneficiary of such a scheme

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

In-situ stimulation

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Role-playing using a simulation scenario

Other: Questionnaires

Procedure: In-situ simulation

Control

Other group

Treatment:

Other: Role-playing using a simulation scenario

Other: Questionnaires