NCT05812716

"resiLIR Healthcare Professionals": A Psychological Online Intervention to Enhance Resilience in Healthcare Professionals

A Randomized Controlled Study to Evaluate the Feasibility and Efficacy of an Online Resilience Intervention for Healthcare Professionals ("resiLIR Healthcare Professionals")

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 224 (actual)
• Sponsor: Leibniz-Institut für Resilienzforschung (LIR) gGmbH · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate an online resilience intervention with healthcare professionals. Participants will receive a 6-week online intervention addressing resilience and stress with a specific focus on self-care and self-compassion. The main question is whether the intervention is effective in increasing resilience.

Detailed description

Background: Healthcare professionals often experience challenging working conditions, e.g., demanding physical work or time-sensitive tasks, which leads to a high risk of stress-associated disorders or burnout. Especially the COVID-19 pandemic as an additional stressor for healthcare highlighted the role of resilience, that is, the ability to maintain or return to good mental health during stress exposure. To promote mental health and resilience in healthcare professionals, previous studies point to self-care and self-compassion as promising factors. Objectives: The aim of the study therefore is to examine the feasibility and efficacy of a newly developed online intervention with a focus on self-care and self-compassion to foster resilience in healthcare professionals. Methods: In a waitlist control design, 240 healthcare professionals will take part in the 6-week resilience intervention "resiLIR Healthcare Professionals". The online intervention contains a theoretical part conveying psychoeducational material as well as a training phase including practical exercises and mini-interventions in everyday life. Participants will assess resilience, burnout, and several resilience factors in online surveys pre-, during and post-intervention as well as 3, 6 and 12 months after completion as follow-up assessments. Implications: The study will contribute to stress and burnout prevention in healthcare professionals through offering a feasible and evidence-based online intervention.

Conditions

• Resilience

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	resiLIR Healthcare Professionals	Weeks 1 and 2: Theoretical part on stress, resilience, self-care, and self-compassion Weeks 3 to 6: Training phase of a weekly introduced practical exercise (reflection on living with ease, self-compassionate body scan, planning of positive activities, self-compassionate letter). This phase additionally includes smartphone reminders to apply the exercises in everyday life.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-06-20
• Primary completion: 2024-07-04
• Completion: 2024-07-04
• First posted: 2023-04-14
• Last updated: 2024-10-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany