Psychological Intervention on Burnout in ICU Caregivers

University Hospitals (UH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burnout; Depression; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: problem-based sessions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01959750

CER 08-220 (NAC08-069)

Details and patient eligibility

About

ICU caregivers face up to a demanding job with a high level of technical skills, a stressful environment, and a heavy work load. They run a high risk of developing burnout that can impact on their welfare, performance, and patient care. Burnout favours absenteeism and staff quitting their jobs, whereas the shortage of ICU caregivers already started. No randomised controlled intervention aimed at reducing such distresses had been run until now.

This study allowed finding a new method of psychological support applicable in the special environment of ICU. Our findings suggest that psychologists specifically assigned to treat ICU caregivers might be beneficial on their burnout.

Enrollment: 166 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all ICU caregivers rrom the University Hospital of Geneva

Exclusion criteria

• refusals

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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166 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: problem-based sessions

Control Group

No Intervention group