NCT03657563

Improving Health of Nurses With Burnout Through Positive Psychological Intervention

An Evaluation of Positive Psychological Intervention on Improving Health of Nurses With Burnout

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 87 (actual)
• Sponsor: Central South University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Burnout is usually regarded as a response to chronic professional stressors like high workload, unfavorable emotion and complex interpersonal relationships. A high prevalence of burnout was found in many countries, and large-scale studies also showed high levels of burnout in Chinese nurses. As a stress-related syndrome, burnout was found to have detrimental influences on both psychological and physical health of nurses. Psychological problems such as depression and insomnia are verified to be associated with burnout. Endocrine dysfunction such as abnormal cortisol secretion rhythm occurred in shift-work nurses. Thyroid dysfunction was increasing and a sample of nurses were diagnosed with thyroid nodules and thyroid hormonal disorder during annual physical examination. Therefore, it is important to take measures to alleviate nurses' burnout to improve health. Positive psychological interventions are defined as treatment methods or intentional activities to enhance person's positive emotions, cognitions and behaviours. In these methods and activities, people are usually required to finish a systematic exercise. According to a recent meta-analysis, Positive psychological interventions showed effectiveness in enhancing participants' well-being and reducing depressive symptoms. Therefore, this study aims to explore whether positive psychological intervention could reduce burnout and improve health of nurses.

Conditions

• Burnout

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Positive psychological intervention	Participants in the intervention group are required to record three good things every night before sleeping for five days a week using WeChat. Such things could be ordinary, minor or important. WeChat is a common communication tool used in China, just like Facebook, basic messages could be sent individually and posting pictures or texts is also available.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2016-12-01
• First posted: 2018-09-05
• Last updated: 2018-09-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China