Mindful Coloring to Reduce Nurses' Stress

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stress (Psychology); Burn Out (Psychology)

Treatments: Behavioral: Coloring as a brief mindfulness-based intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04942509

SBRE-20-162

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether nurses who did mindful coloring for at least five working days during a 10-day period experienced stress reduction afterwards.

Full description

Enrolled participants who met inclusion criteria (full-time clinical nurses working for at least five days during a specified 10-day period) were randomized in 1:1 ratio to the coloring or control groups. A third party did the allocation sequence and concealment. After giving informed consent, participants completed the baseline questionnaire and the coloring group watched an instructional video on mindful coloring. The coloring group were asked to color for any length of time on at least five working days during a 10-day period (period A) while the control group were asked to do it on a subsequent 10-day (period B). The post-intervention questionnaire was completed by both groups at the end of period A. The study was completed after period B.

Enrollment: 79 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Full time clinical nurses working under the Hospital Authority who would be working for at least 5 days during a specified 10-day study period.

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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79 participants in 2 patient groups

Coloring

Experimental group

Description:

This group did mindful coloring for at least 5 days or at least 100 minutes in total during a 10-day period

Treatment:

Behavioral: Coloring as a brief mindfulness-based intervention

Wait-list control

No Intervention group

Description:

This group did not do mindful coloring at all during a 10-day period.