Empowerment and Burnout of Midwives at the End of Health Emergency From COVID-19

IRCCS Burlo Garofolo

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: COVID-19

Treatments: Other: Evaluation of midwifes' burnout

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06309186

RC 30/2023

Details and patient eligibility

About

As the fifth wave of COVID-19 comes to an end and the pandemic's countermeasures expire, there is a need to assess the impact of the pandemic on health care providers, especially midwives, as the professionals deputed to promote and protect women's holistic health, in all phases, physiological and otherwise, of the life cycle. The midwife considers the person as a whole, in which the mind-body-culture components interact profoundly. Prevention and containment measures have impacted on midwifery clinical and nursing practices with the mandatory continuous use of personal protective equipments (PPE) and social distancing to protect the patient and the practitioner, effectively hindering the intimacy of the woman-midwife relationship. The impact assessment focuses on two dimensions: learning, investigated as perceived empowerment, and perceived malaise, investigated as burnout. Empowerment has a positive connotation, which can offset burnout, a syndrome that affects the physical, psychological and emotional health of midwives and can have significant negative implications on midwife turnover, patient safety and outcomes, and the efficiency of healthcare organisations.

Enrollment: 64 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Midwives registered in the orders of Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) region
2. Midwives in practice for at least one year
3. Midwives practicing in FVG region

Exclusion criteria

1. Consent not granted
2. Midwives in retirement for more than a year

Trial design

64 participants in 1 patient group

Midwives

Description:

The study involves a convenience sample of midwives registered with the two Orders of the Midwifery Profession in Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region (Italy)

Treatment:

Other: Evaluation of midwifes' burnout