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Mitigating Burnout in Nursing and Associated Healthcare Staff

No phase Interventional Burn Out Nurses

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What is being studied
The protocol lists: Zen Den Experience, Music Therapy Experience.
Who it may be relevant to
Registry conditions: Burn Out, Nurses. Basic parameters: from 18 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
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Next step
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Official title

The Zen Den - Mitigating Burnout in Nursing and Associated Healthcare Staff

Overview

Workplace stress for healthcare workers is at an all-time high and the COVID-19 Pandemic magnified and amplified the impact of stress and burnout on health care workers, especially for frontline staff such as nurses. There are multiple external and individual factors that affect clinician well-being, and organizational factors are an important aspect to address when attempting to mitigate nurse burnout and improve well-being. This project seeks to expand two interventions that were piloted in the last few years since the Covid-19 Pandemic, validated to show improvement in staff well-being and decreased feelings of burnout following the interventions, and are easily implemented to benefit nurses and other multidisciplinary health care workers and students in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.

Interventions

  • Behavioral Zen Den Experience
    The Zen Den is a dedicated safe space for healthcare staff to decompress and recharge during shifts, addressing the growing issue of workplace stress. It has soft warm lighting, sound machines and aroma therapy, relaxing furnishings centered around a faux fireplace to create a stress-free environment.
  • Behavioral Music Therapy Experience
    The music therapy experience will consist of either Music Minutes which have music therapists available on specific units and circulating amongst staff across flexible shift times. Intervention choices will include relaxation songs, motivation songs, music, mindfulness, breathing to music, dance-a-minute, and brief song rewrites. Notes for Resilience will be scheduled group sessions that follow a more structured format and are 30 to 60 minutes in length. Involvement and coping will be emphasized

Primary outcome measures

  • The number of subjects who state preference for having long-term access to the intervention. [Time frame: Survey data will be collected at the end of the intervention up to 30 minutes post intervention.]
  • The number of subjects who report improvement of subject's energy level needed to complete immediate job responsibilities. [Time frame: Survey data will be collected at the end of the intervention up to 30 minutes post intervention.]
  • The number of subjects who report improvement of subject's understanding of what is needed in the moment to overcome challenges. [Time frame: Survey data will be collected at the end of the intervention up to 30 minutes post intervention.]
  • The number of subjects who report improvement navigating challenging or difficult situations in the workplace [Time frame: Survey data will be collected at the end of the intervention up to 30 minutes post intervention.]
  • The number of subjects who report improvement in expressing thoughts, questions and feelings with colleagues situations in the workplace. [Time frame: Survey data will be collected at the end of the intervention up to 30 minutes post intervention.]
  • The number of subjects who report improvement in feeling less isolated at work. [Time frame: Survey data will be collected at the end of the intervention up to 30 minutes post intervention.]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
  • The number of subjects reporting the intervention was well facilitated. [Time frame: Survey data will be collected at the end of the intervention up to 30 minutes post intervention.]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

\- English-speaking employees or students at Penn State Health and College of Medicine.

Exclusion criteria

\- Non-English speaking individuals

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
Parallel assignment
Masking
Open label
Primary purpose
Prevention

Study locations

Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.

Identifiers

NCT: NCT07018609 · Study00026654

Primary sources (government registries)

View this study on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗