Mitigating Burnout in Nursing and Associated Healthcare Staff

Penn State Health

Status: Begins enrollment in 1 month

Conditions: Burn Out; Nurses

Treatments: Behavioral: Music Therapy Experience; Behavioral: Zen Den Experience

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07018609

Study00026654

Details and patient eligibility

About

Workplace stress for healthcare workers is at an all-time high and the COVID-19 Pandemic magnified and amplified the impact of stress and burnout on health care workers, especially for frontline staff such as nurses. There are multiple external and individual factors that affect clinician well-being, and organizational factors are an important aspect to address when attempting to mitigate nurse burnout and improve well-being. This project seeks to expand two interventions that were piloted in the last few years since the Covid-19 Pandemic, validated to show improvement in staff well-being and decreased feelings of burnout following the interventions, and are easily implemented to benefit nurses and other multidisciplinary health care workers and students in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English-speaking employees or students at Penn State Health and College of Medicine.

Exclusion criteria

• Non-English speaking individuals

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 2 patient groups

Zen Den

Active Comparator group

Description:

Zen Den

Treatment:

Behavioral: Zen Den Experience

Music Therapy

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Music Therapy Experience