NCT05541523

Improve Mental Health and Emotional Labor Among Nurses Who Care the End-of-life Patients

Does Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or Mindfulness-based Therapy Improve Mental Health and Emotional Labor Among Nurses Who Care the End-of-life Patients? A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Huichao Zhang · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

CBT: cognitive behavioural therapy MBT: mindfulness-based therapy

Detailed description

Nurses caring for terminally ill patients suffer from negative emotions and emotional labor, which may lead to a decline in the quality of end-of-life care. CBT and MBT are currently two commonly used psychological methods. They can be effective in improving bad mood. However, to the best of our knowledge, no investigators have used CBT and MBT among nurses caring for terminally ill patients. Could CBT and MBT be effective in alleviating the psychological distress of these nurses? Which psychological method is more effective?

Conditions

• End-of-life
• Depression, Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	cognitive behavioural therapy	The three therapists in the cognitive behavioural group therapy condition were two students of master's degree of nursing with formal education in cognitive therapy and one psychological specialist nurse working in a palliative care unit. There was no evidence of significant deviation from the protocol.
BEHAVIORAL	mindfulness-based therapy	The two therapists in the mindfulness-based stress reduction condition were one clinical psychologist and one student of master's degree of nursing with formal education in mindfulness.Both interventions were manualized. To assure adherence to the study protocol meetings between the therapists and the researchers were organized regularly and the therapists detailed the content of each group session in clinical records which were frequently monitored by a research assistant.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-30
• Completion: 2023-01-01
• First posted: 2022-09-15
• Last updated: 2022-09-15

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: China