Improving Night Shift Nurses' Health and Reducing Burnout

University of Pittsburgh

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: Access to napping/relaxation room; Other: Blue and green light blocking glasses

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06829979

STUDY24090069

Details and patient eligibility

About

Healthy and happy nurses are essential to ensuring optimal patient outcomes and organizational success. The evidence on the negative impacts of night shift on nurses' health and cognitive function, and their implications on patient outcomes and organizational costs, reflect the need for interventions to mitigate these detrimental outcomes.

This pilot, feasibility, clinical trial will examine the feasibility of two fatigue countermeasure interventions (access to napping/relaxation room and use of blue/green light blocking glass during night shift) and explore the interventions effects on nurses' health, missed care, and burnout.

Full description

Aim 1 (Primary): Examine the feasibility of a larger study and hospital-wide implementation of two fatigue countermeasure interventions (access to napping/relaxation rooms and use of blue/green light blocking glass during night shift).

Aim 2 (Exploratory): Explore the effects of the interventions on melatonin levels, overall health, sleep, fatigue, cognitive function, missed care, nurse burnout, and salivary melatonin levels.

Enrollment: 5 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being a registered nurse at UPMC Shadyside (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Working full-time night or rotating shifts
• Willing to wear a Fitbit around-the-clock during the study
• Willing to use nap/relaxation room and glasses only when assigned to that condition
• Willing to provide saliva samples

Exclusion criteria

• Having a diagnosed sleep disorder (e.g., obstructive sleep apnea, insomnia, restless leg syndrome, or shift work disorder)
• Currently being treated for a serious mental illness
• Needing to use eye glasses to complete work related activities (note: contact lenses are acceptable)
• Use of prescription or over-the-counter sleep aides including melatonin

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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5 participants in 1 patient group

Single group, crossover - order of the interventions to be randomly selected

Experimental group

Description:

All participants will receive the same interventions which includes access to the napping/relaxation room only intervention, blue and green light blocking glasses only intervention, and the combined intervention. There will be a two-week washout between the interventions. The order of the interventions will be randomized to one of the following options: * Napping/relaxation room, blue and green light blocking glasses, combined * Blue and green light blocking glasses, napping/relaxation room, combined * Napping/relaxation room, combined, blue and green light blocking glasses * Blue and green light blocking glasses, combined, napping/relaxation room * Combined, napping/relaxation room, blue and green light blocking glasses * Combined, blue and green light blocking glasses, napping/relaxation room

Treatment:

Other: Blue and green light blocking glasses

Behavioral: Access to napping/relaxation room