Feasibility of Stress Management Education Delivered Via Virtual Classroom in Nursing Homes: a Pilot Study of a RCT (AGIT-RESTS-1)

GCS CIPS

Status: Completed

Conditions: Occupational Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Stress management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06727682

AGIT-RESTS-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this cluster-randomised pilot study is to assess the feasibility of a remote stress management programme to reduce occupational stress in healthcare workers in specialised care units of nursing homes. Secondary aims are to assess the effectiveness of the programme in reducing stress in care workers and reducing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in residents.

Participants randomised to the experimental cluster will follow the stress management programme delivered in a virtual classroom. Participants randomised to the control cluster will be placed on a waiting list.

The primary outcome measure will be the participation rate in the study. Other secondary outcomes will include measures of heart rate variability (as a marker of physiological stress) and scores on specific questionnaires for stress, anxiety and risk of burnout in nursing staff in the specialised care units, and behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia and quality of life in residents in the specialised care units.

Both clusters will complete the same assessments. Participants in the experimental cluster will follow a three-course programme with a psychologist via videoconferencing over a period of 2 months. After the study's final evaluation visit, which will take place one month after the programme, participants in the control cluster will be offered the opportunity to follow the same programme.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having a caring relationship with residents (e.g. nurses, nursing assistants)
• Working in the specialised care unit of the nursing home
• Working in the nursing home for at least 3 months on the date of inclusion and whose employment contract does not end within 3 months of the date of inclusion.
• Obtaining express written informed consent, after a period of reflection

Exclusion criteria

• Person in a period of relative exclusion in relation to another protocol
• Person who is not affiliated to or does not benefit from a social security scheme.
• Pregnant or lactating woman
• Participant unable to give consent
• Person deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision
• Person unable to understand, speak, read and write French

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Remote stress management programme

Experimental group

Description:

Ten-hour, three-course stress management programme with a psychologist via video conferencing over 2 months

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stress management

Waiting list

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention during the study duration. However, after the end of the study, after the last evaluations, participants in this control cluster will be offered the opportunity to follow the stress management programme.