NCT06944821

Effect of in Situ Simulation on Quality of Work Life and Multiprofessional Team Effectiveness in the Intensive Care Unit

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Montpellier · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The lack of specific, personalized training for intensive care workers can lead to a deterioration in quality of life at work, and can result in burnout, absenteeism or wanting to leave the service. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of in situ simulation on quality of work life and the effectiveness of multi-professional teamwork in intensive care.

Detailed description

Paramedics in intensive care are particularly exposed to the risk of burnout, which is multifactorial (psychologically and physically challenging environment, life-threatening emergency context, etc.). Personal assistance professions require a high level of compassion, leading to a positive feeling of compassionate satisfaction, i.e. the satisfaction of helping others. Compassion fatigue leads to a reduction in job satisfaction, culminating in burnout. Factors negatively influencing compassion satisfaction are the absence of specific and adapted training, or the lack of support from the hierarchy. Among the pedagogical tools available, in situ simulation could be used to respond to a specific and personalized training request from a care department. The study will be carried out in the cardio-thoracic intensive care unit at Montpellier University Hospital, comparing 2 groups to assess the effect of simulation on paramedics. Paramedics will be randomized into 2 groups, with stratification on diploma (nursing assistant or nurse): group A benefiting from a simulation program, and group B not benefiting from it during the study.

Conditions

• Quality of Work Life
• Burn-out
• Simulation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	In-situ simulation	Each simulation session takes place over one day, with 4 scenarios recreating life-threatening emergency situations (cardiorespiratory arrest, hemorrhagic shock, etc.). Each scenario is designed to meet specific pedagogical objectives, which will be debriefed by simulation trainers: crisis resource management (communication, alerting, etc.) or organization of multi-professional teamwork
OTHER	Role-playing using a simulation scenario	Team performance in critical situations, assessed during a simulation scenario for all participants. The assessment will be carried out blind by 1 examiner, trained in CRM (Crisis Resource Management) analysis in simulation and debriefing.
OTHER	Questionnaires	Quality of lige questionnaire Pro-QOL, Karasek questionnaire, Satisfaction questionnaire at work : WRQoL, Work Life Balance scale, Mayo Hight Team Performance scale will be completed at baseline and at 6 months

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-05-19
• Primary completion: 2026-06-02
• Completion: 2026-12-31
• First posted: 2025-04-25
• Last updated: 2025-08-01

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: France