The Effects of Resilience and Mental Health of Abused Psychiatric Nurses: An Intervention With Biofeedback Training

Kaohsiung Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychiatric Nurses, Workplace Violence, Biofeedback Training, and Resilience

Treatments: Biological: bio-feedback training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04115332

KMUHIRB-E(II)-20170101

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators provide biofeedback training to assist the abused PW nurses to reduce WPV-related stress and achieve better resilience and mental health. The research project will assess the participants' physiological indices prior to the intervention as well as their levels of resilience and mental status.

Full description

This was a quasi-experimental study, structured questionnaires of Resilience Score, The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) and Occupational Stress Indicator-2 were used in this study before and three months after intervention. A total of 112 abused psychiatric nurses were randomly assigned to 3 groups. The biofeedback group (n=40) received the biofeedback training and the self-training group received video relaxation training by Line (n=44). The control group (n=28) did not receive any intervention.

Biofeedback training is an effective intervention to enhance abused PW nurses' resilience and lower their depressive symptoms. Video relaxation self-training is also an effective way to strengthen abused psychiatric nurses' resilience.

Enrollment: 136 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• abused psychiatric ward (PW) nurses

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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136 participants in 1 patient group

Interventional

Experimental group

Description:

EEG Recording The one-channel EEG sensor was recorded from Cz with linked-ear reference based on the International 10-20 system. EEG signals were recorded using BioGraph Infiniti software (Version 6.0.4, n.d.) with a band-pass between 1-30 Hz. The sample rate was 256 Hz with 60-Hz notch filters, and the electrode impedances were lower than 5 kΩ. A lead II electrocardiogram (ECG) was collected for 5 minutes at baseline using the ProComp InfinitiTM system (Thought Technology Ltd., Montreal, Canada), which was installed on a laptop. A sampling rate of 2,048/second was set in order to acquire real-time interbeat intervals.

Treatment:

Biological: bio-feedback training