The Effects of Stress Inoculation Training Program on Occupational Stress Level, Coping Style, and Sleep Quality in New Psychiatric Nurses.

Huzhou University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychiatric; Nurse; Stress Inoculation Training

Treatments: Behavioral: routine training; Behavioral: stress inoculation training program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07105774

202401-37

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this clinical trial is to find out whether a stress inoculation program can reduce occupational stress in new psychiatric nurses. The main question it aimed to answer was:

Does a stress inoculation training program improve participants' occupational stress, coping styles, and sleep quality? The researchers compared the stress inoculation training to a conventional training control to see if the stress inoculation training reduced occupational stress.

Enrollment: 72 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• obtained nurse practitioner's license;
• nurses who were newly employed within the last three years and have been in their position for one month or longer;
• directly interacting with patients with mental illnesses in daily work;
• obtained informed consent to participate voluntarily in this study.

Exclusion criteria

• non-fresh graduates;
• these taking vacations, refresher courses during the study period;
• were breastfeeding or pregnant;
• had attended a similar stress intervention training (e.g., Positive Thinking Stress Reduction training, etc.) within the past year;
• new major non-work stressors (e.g., death of a close family member, divorce, exposure to a major natural disaster, etc.) within the last six months.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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72 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

The control group received routine training

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

routine theoretical knowledge training and clinical practice training.

Treatment:

Behavioral: routine training

The intervention group received the SIT program

Experimental group

Description:

Establishment of online training groups, Establishment of stress reduction workshops and peer support groups, Organization of recreational activities and games for groups, ntroducing the concept, the program's curriculum, and process organization, Cognitive restructuring training, Relaxation training, Setting up virtual stressful situations and conducting stress resilience exercises, Self-reinforcement and consolidation, Applying competencies to solve practical problems, Recall and consolidation of course content

Treatment:

Behavioral: stress inoculation training program