Improving Health of Nurses With Burnout Through Positive Psychological Intervention

Central South University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burnout

Treatments: Other: Positive psychological intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03657563

2015053

Details and patient eligibility

About

Burnout is usually regarded as a response to chronic professional stressors like high workload, unfavorable emotion and complex interpersonal relationships. A high prevalence of burnout was found in many countries, and large-scale studies also showed high levels of burnout in Chinese nurses. As a stress-related syndrome, burnout was found to have detrimental influences on both psychological and physical health of nurses. Psychological problems such as depression and insomnia are verified to be associated with burnout. Endocrine dysfunction such as abnormal cortisol secretion rhythm occurred in shift-work nurses. Thyroid dysfunction was increasing and a sample of nurses were diagnosed with thyroid nodules and thyroid hormonal disorder during annual physical examination. Therefore, it is important to take measures to alleviate nurses' burnout to improve health.

Positive psychological interventions are defined as treatment methods or intentional activities to enhance person's positive emotions, cognitions and behaviours. In these methods and activities, people are usually required to finish a systematic exercise. According to a recent meta-analysis, Positive psychological interventions showed effectiveness in enhancing participants' well-being and reducing depressive symptoms. Therefore, this study aims to explore whether positive psychological intervention could reduce burnout and improve health of nurses.

Enrollment: 87 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• officially employed licensed nurses; burnout score higher than 1.49; had a telephone on which WeChat could be installed.

Exclusion criteria

• pregnant; current endocrine disorder; taking hormone drugs such as contraceptives.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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87 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Nurses with burnout are recruited in the intervention group and participate in positive psychological intervention.

Treatment:

Other: Positive psychological intervention

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Nurses with burnout are recruited in the control group and none interventions are conducted to them.