STRAIN - Work-related Stress Among Health Professionals in Switzerland

Sabine Hahn

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Care Professionals; Work-Related Condition; Stress

Treatments: Other: educational intervention for the supervisors

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03508596

J.008137-42-PFLW

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to identify work stressors, stress reactions and long-term consequences among nurses, physicians, medical-technical and medical-therapeutic professions in Switzerland and to reduce those factors by an educational intervention for the supervisors.

Full description

Methods: This study is a cross-sectional design and randomly selected hospitals, nursing homes and home care organizations. The study sample included nursing staff and midwives, physicians, medical-technical and medical-therapeutic professionals at all hierarchical levels. Data were collected using self-report questionnaires and analysed using multiple regression models.

Enrollment: 8,112 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 67 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Employee within a participating health organization in Switzerland
• Health care professional (nurse, medical-technical medical-therapeutical profession, physician)

Exclusion criteria

• Health professionals without an fixed employment contract

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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8,112 participants in 3 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention group (IG) An educational intervention for the supervisors

Treatment:

Other: educational intervention for the supervisors

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

control group (CG)

Non-Intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

group without intervention (GWI)