Effect of HeartMath Intervention on Stress, Emotional Vitality and Sense of Coherence
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Heart Math program.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Stress, Coherence Sense. Basic parameters: 18 years — 60 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Egypt
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Resilience as a Journey, Not a Destination: The Feasibility of Applying HeartMath to Stress, Emotional Vitality and Sense of Coherence Among Intensive Care Units Nurses.
Overview
This study aims to investigate the effect of Heart math intervention program on stress, emotional vitality and sense of coherence among intensive care units Nurses
Detailed description
This study aims to investigate the effect of Heart math intervention program on stress, emotional vitality and sense of coherence among intensive care units Nurses.
The intervention was implemented in form of 2 sessions per week according to the following 7 sessions, each session about 45- 60 minutes.
Session (1)
Aims:
Introduce Heart Math definition of stress. Assess client's current stress level.
Handouts for patients:
Handout 1 : Stress What is stress? How stress affect health? How stressed are you? What can I do about it? Session (2) Aim: Introduce concept of heart coherence
Handouts for patients:
Handout 1: Heart Coherence How dose Heart Math work? How can I create and practice physiological coherence? The Quick Coherence Technique. Handout 2: Depletion to renewal plan. Session (3)
Aims:
Teach Heart-Focused Breathing and Quick Coherence Introduce personal practice plan to use for
Handouts for patients:
Handout 1: Heart-focused breathing. Handout 2: Quick coherence technique. Handout 3: Personal practice log. Session (4)
Aims:
Assess client's current anxiety level. Review this week's homework on Personal Practice Log. Review and practice Quick Coherence Technique. Teach Heart Lock-In Technique.
Handouts for patients:
Handout 1: Anxiety Checklist. Handout 2: Quick Coherence Technique. Handout 3: Heart Lock-In Technique. Handout 3: Personal Practice Log. Session (5)
Aims:
Review this week's homework on Personal Practice Log. Review Heart-Focused Breathing and Quick Coherence Techniques. Review and practice. Heart Lock-In Technique. Teach Freeze Frame Technique.
Handouts for patients:
Handout 1: Heart Lock-In Technique. Handout 2: Freeze Frame Technique. Session (6)
Aims:
Review this week's homework on Personal Practice Log. Review Heart Lock-In and Freeze Frame Techniques. Teach Attitude Breathing Technique.
Handouts for patients:
Handout 1: Personal Practice Log. Handout 2: Freeze Frame Technique. Handout 3: Attitude Breathing Technique. Session (7)
Aims:
Review this week's homework on Attitude Breathing Technique. Teach Coherence Communication Technique.
Handouts for patients:
Handout 1: Attitude Breathing Technique. Handout 2: Coherent Communication Technique.
Interventions
- Behavioral Heart Math program
Heart Math program is behavior intervention through several sessions
Primary outcome measures
- Resilience Scale [Time frame: over two months]
- Personal and Organizational Quality Assessment [Time frame: over two months]
- Sense of Coherence [Time frame: over two months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Nurses who work in selected intensive care units and agree to participate
Exclusion criteria
- Nurses who refuse to participate in this study
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
Egypt · 2 centers
- Faculty of Nursing — Damanhūr
- Damanhour university — Damanhūr
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06849388 · HeartMath