Promotion of Nurses' Lower Extremity Health by Foot(at)Work Intervention

University of Turku

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Foot Deformities; Lower Extremity Problem

Treatments: Behavioral: Foot(at)Work intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06555198

230374

Details and patient eligibility

About

The quasiexperimental study aims to analyse the effecs of Foot(at)Work intervention on nurses' lower extremity health. The Foot(at)Work intervention is in electronic format consisting of 5 themes. The idea is that the participants familiarizes with the foot health -related content. The primary outcome is knowledge about lower extremity self-care. Secondary outcomes are work well-being, lower extremity health and musculoskeletal health. The outcomes are measured before the intervention (M0), after the intervention (M1), one month after the intervention (M2), six months after the intervention (M3) and 12 months after the intervention (M4).

The purpose of the Foot(at)Work intervention is to support nurses ability to self-care their lower extremities. The intervention consists of text, videos, and pictures that educate nurses to self-care their lower extremities and to select proper footwear.

Enrollment: 160 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Registered nurse
• Working in the specialized health care in surgical or internal medicine wards of one certain hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Nursing students

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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160 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Foot(at)Work intervention will be offered to participant sin the intervention group. The Foot(at)Work intervention lasts for 5 weeks. The intervention is constructed on electronic learning environment consisting of 5 themes illustrating self-care activities for common foot problems among nursing professionals. The idea of self-directed learning is to support nurses competence to self-care their lower extremities and thus, promote their work wellbeing in clinical nursing environments.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Foot(at)Work intervention

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will work and live as usual.