The Effect of Motivational Messages on Emergency Nurses

Istanbul Saglik Bilimleri University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Compassion Fatigue; Satisfaction; Communication, Social

Treatments: Other: Motivation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05158504

SBU-HAMIDIYE-KARTAL-00001-2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim and objectives: The aim of this study is to examine the effect of motivational notifications applied to emergency nurses on job satisfaction, compassion fatigue and communication skills during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Emergency room nurses working on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic; many factors such as excessive workload, prolonged working hours, threat of infection, death of the patients they care for have caused them to experience physical, social and psychological problems.

Design: It is a randomized controlled, open-label study. Methods: This study was carried out with a total of 60 nurses working in the emergency units of two training and research hospitals in Istanbul. Participants were divided into motivational group and control group. Motivational notifications were sent via Short Message Service (SMS) to the mobile phones of the participants in the motivational group (n=30) for 21 days. No motivational notification was sent to the control group (n=30) during this process. Data were obtained with the Individual Introduction Form, Job Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue and Communication Skills Scale.

Enrollment: 65 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:The nurses working in the emergency room, working only in the day shift on weekdays, using mobile phones and volunteering to participate in the study were included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria: Exclusion criteria for the study included being on leave for any reason (maternity, annual, medical) during the study dates, not completely filling in the data collection forms, or withdrawing from the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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65 participants in 2 patient groups

Motivation

Experimental group

Description:

Motivational notifications were sent to the nurses in the motivational group (n=30) via SMS messages to their mobile phones at 07.00, 12.00 and 16.00 for 21 days. Like a good morning message that allows you to start the day with a beautiful energy (Example: Thank you for the hard and selfless work you do every day. We love and appreciate angels like you and you. Good morning). Motivational notifications sent to the participants were prepared each day to be different from the previous day. Data were obtained with the Individual Introduction Form, Job Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue and Communication Skills Scale.

Treatment:

Other: Motivation

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Motivational notifications were not sent to the nurses in the control group (n=30) and they continued their routine work in the emergency room. only pretest and posttest were applied. Data were obtained with the Individual Introduction Form, Job Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue and Communication Skills Scale.