Nurses' Foot Health and Work Well-being

University of Turku

Status: Completed

Conditions: Foot; Nurses

Treatments: Behavioral: Foot Health Promoting Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03116451

116464

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study supports and promotes work well-being of nursing personnel from the perspective of foot health in health care organizations. Half of the participants will receive an electronic foot health education program to improve their foot self-care knowledge, while the other will receive anything. The outcomes of this project include recommendations and tested educational program to occupational health care for improving foot health of nurses.

Full description

An electronic Foot Health Promoting Program (FHPP) will be tested with nurses using quasi-experimental study design.

The participants will be assigned to experimental (N=130) and comparison (N=130) groups. The experimental group will receive an electronic intervention (Foot Health Promotion Program) for 8 weeks consisting of foot self-care guidance (skin and nail self-care), foot exercises, foot stretching and professional footwear guidance. Detailed components of the intervention will be produced on the bases of survey (part 1) results. The intervention (Figure 3) will be electronic via internet (Moodle platform) where a material package of foot health care will be delivered. Each participant will receive a user account to platform. The platform is divided into four main themes all related to foot health. Each theme consists of two topics of foot health. Each topic includes lectures (delivered via Adobe Presenter) and self-directed learning where participant will go through a list of links to websites (will be evaluated with certain criteria beforehand) and watch videos about foot self-care. In addition, the learning will be evaluated using four individual tasks related to foot self-care. By responding to task a participant will receive an example of the correct answer and using that he/she can evaluate own response and learn by that. Participants' use of different links (quantity) and their paths in the intervention platform will be calculated and analysed. The participants will be tested before the intervention (baseline) and one month (follow-up 1) and four (follow-up 2) months after the intervention. The primary outcome is foot health knowledge and secondary outcomes are foot health, musculoskeletal problems, work ability, health-related quality of life and work satisfaction. Hypothesis is: Increasing nurses' knowledge about foot health will improve their foot health and work ability. Ultimate goal is to develop tools for the occupational health care and improve the attention paid to feet as part of the work ability among nurses.

Enrollment: 56 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• nurses (registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, public health nurses) working in the operating theatre

Exclusion criteria

• other health care professionals

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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56 participants in 2 patient groups

Foot Health Promoting Program

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group will receive an electronic intervention (Foot Health Promotion Program, FHPP) for 8 weeks consisting of foot self-care guidance (skin and nail self-care), foot exercises, foot stretching and professional footwear guidance. Each topic includes lectures (delivered via Adobe Presenter) and self-directed learning where participant will go through a list of links to websites and watch videos about foot self-care. In addition, the learning will be evaluated using four individual tasks related to foot self-care.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Foot Health Promoting Program

Comparison group

No Intervention group

Description:

The comparison group will not receive any instructions or guidance for foot self-care but participant in the comparison group will complete the same measurement points than experimental group. After the study, the comparison group will also receive the same intervention than experimental group (if effective).