Stress Management Training for Nursing Professionals in a Tertiary Care Center in Nepal

Dhulikhel Hospital

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Mental Health

Treatments: Behavioral: Stress Management Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06438016

205/2024

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if stress management programs can help alleviate existing and prevent future symptoms of stress in nursing professionals working in a tertiary care center in Nepal.

Researchers will compare the treatment group (exposed to stress management training) to the control group (not exposed to stress management training) to see if

1. Stress management sessions lead to reduction of levels of stress among nurses at tertiary level hospital in Nepal.
2. To compare the pre and post training stress levels among participants of intervention and control group

Participants will Fill out the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale 21 and the Perceived Stress Scale before either being exposed to a 4-session stress management training (treatment group) or not being exposed to such training (control). All participants (both groups) will fill out the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale 21 and the Perceived Stress Scale for pre-post comparative measure.

Full description

This study will aim to explore the effectiveness of a stress management program in nursing professionals in a community teaching hospital in Nepal. A 4-day stress management training program will be conducted and pre and post-training stress levels will be measured using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and the Stress-Subscale of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) one week prior to and after the training program. This experimental pre-post double arm study will involve 86 participants - all nursing staff from the Dhulikhel Hospital. Participants will be divided into 2 groups - treatment and control. The treatment group will be further divided into 2 groups of 20-25. The stress management training program will be held across 4 weeks with both groups receiving one training course each week (eg. Week 1 - session 1; Week 2 - session 2). Both questionnaires will be distributed again to both groups, 1 month after the last stress management session (1 - month follow up) .The control group whilst not being subjected to the Stress management training during the study period, will obtain the training upon study completion.

Enrollment: 86 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 8 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Nurses employed at the Dhulikhel Hospital
• Minimum one year work experience
• Minimum qualification certificate level of nursing
• Fluent in spoken and written English

Exclusion criteria

• Nurses with the post of nurse manager and above
• Nursing Students
• History having undergone stress management training in the past
• Absent for one or more sessions
• Incidence of a major stressful/critical life event during the study (e.g., divorce, death, and other critical events)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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86 participants in 2 patient groups

Stress Management Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group will be provided with a demographic questionnaire, the DASS-21 and the PSS one week prior to and after the stress management training. The treatment group will be sub-divided into 2 groups of 20-25 participants and subjected to a 4-session stress management training program over the course of 4-weeks (one 40 minute session each week). The DASS and the PSS will be administered to this group one week and one month post completion of the final stress management training session.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stress Management Training

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

This control group will fill out the DASS-21 and PSS with the treatment group prior to the treatment group commencing stress management and will also fill out the DASS-21 and PSS upon completion of the treatment group's stress management training. This group will however not obtain stress management training during the study. Training will be provided upon study completion.