NCT01959750

Psychological Intervention on Burnout in ICU Caregivers

Psychological Intervention on Burnout in ICU Caregivers: a Randomised Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 166 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Geneva · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Burnout
• Anxiety
• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	problem-based sessions	weekly sessions for small groups of caregivers, led by two psychologists acting as moderators and using a systemic approach, as suggested in other peer-support groups using a problem-based method

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-04-01
• Primary completion: 2009-12-01
• Completion: 2013-09-01
• First posted: 2013-10-10
• Last updated: 2013-10-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland