H-Senses Project - Self Care Mediated by the Senses

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stress

Treatments: Other: one-sensory self care (Todo Dia®); Other: multisensory self care (Todo Dia®); Other: bi-sensory self care (Todo Dia®)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02406755

H-Senses

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomized clinical trial about self-care mediated by the senses in female health professionals and their influence on stress, self-esteem, mood states, life satisfaction and levels of salivary cortisol.

Full description

The work environment of health professionals is commonly considered stressful, given that they need to deal with difficult situations that include pain, risk of death, the decisions that need to be fast and accurate, and conflicts generated in interpersonal relationships. There is an ongoing discussion that the investigators need to care for those who care, however, there are few interventions studied and validated to effectively reduce the stress of these professionals that resonate in states of well-being. There is little room for discussion of this topic during the workday, as well as to learn techniques and measures for effective stress management. This study aims to explore the relationship between well-being, self-esteem and stress of women health professionals, and compare three self-care interventions mediated by the senses.

Enrollment: 123 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Professional healthcare;
• working in healthcare or administrative area in hospital
• Voluntary participation;
• Signed in term of free and informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Evaluation with relevant dermatological findings diagnosed by a dermatologist;
• Work at nighttime or in alternate periods (because of known chronobiological changes that would affect the study of cortisol, one of the outcomes considered in the study);
• who are breastfeeding;
• Be pregnant

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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123 participants in 4 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

This control group will not receive an intervention.

one-sensory self care

Active Comparator group

Description:

Daily moisturizing body care with an odorless moisturizer (Todo Dia® - Natura) for 30 days.

Treatment:

Other: one-sensory self care (Todo Dia®)

bi-sensory self care

Active Comparator group

Description:

Daily moisturizing body care with a moisturizer with cotton fragance (Todo Dia® - Natura) for 30 days.

Treatment:

Other: bi-sensory self care (Todo Dia®)

multisensory self care

Active Comparator group

Description:

Daily moisturizing body care with a moisturizer with cotton fragance (Todo Dia® - Natura) for 30 days, and will watch a video with music and images of nature during self-care.

Treatment:

Other: multisensory self care (Todo Dia®)