Recognizing and Preventing Burnout: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 20
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Changes in burnout, as assessed by the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) (Maslach C., 1981) between baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2)
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to prevent burnout and offer the hospital staff a space for processing the emotional experiences.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Doctors, physiotherapists, nurses and care workers
- •Be a Professional Worker at the Rehabilitation Respiratory Unit
- •Age > 18 years old
Exclusion Criteria
- •Refusal at the Informed Consent
Arms & Interventions
Control Group
There is not any intervention.
Psychological Intervention
All the professionals workers involved in the experimental group will attend three intensive psychological meetings about emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, low personal accomplishment and how to improve coping skills.
Intervention: Psychological Intervention (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Changes in burnout, as assessed by the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) (Maslach C., 1981) between baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2)
Time Frame: At the baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2)
Secondary Outcomes
- Changes in psychological symptoms as assessed by the Symptom Checklist-90-R (Prunas et al., 2012) between baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2)(At the baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2))
- Changes in coping strategies as assessed by the Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (COPE) (Carver et al., 1989) between baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2)(At the baseline (T0), 6 months (T1) and 12 months (T2))
Investigators
Paolo Banfi
M.D.
Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus
