Stress and Coping, Resilience, and Compassion Fatigue of Front-line Nurses During COVID-19 Pandemic

• Conditions: COVID-19 Pandemic; Stressor, Psychological; Mental Health Issue

• Registration Number: NCT05205564
• Lead Sponsor: National Taiwan University

Brief Summary

This is a cross-sectional research. The investigators plan to recruit about 250 front-line nurses who provided direct care to COVID-19 confirmed cases in a medical center in Taiwan. Online querstionnaires are used to collect the data. The relationship between variables such as stressors related to COVID-19, coping status, resilience, and compassion fatigue of participants will be analysis to provide the direction of nurses' mental health-related interventions.

Detailed Description

This project aims to identify the prevalence of compassion fatigue and the coping strategies for the nurses who work on the frontline of healthcare and are responsible for caring for patients with COVID-19 in Taiwan. The investigators planed to carry a cross-sectional study by a reliable and valid online questionnaire to explore the stressors related to COVID-19, coping status, resilience, and compassion fatigue of nurses who had the experience of caring for the COVID-19 confirmed cases in a medical center during the community outbreak in Taiwan from May 2021. Online questionnaires are used to collect the data. About two hundred and fifty nurses will be recruited, and the data will be analyzed by descriptive statistics, correlation statistics and Hayes's PROCESS model 6. It is expected that the research results can understand the current status and relationship of compassion fatigue, resilience and the adaptability of clinical nurses who are caring for the COVID-19 confirmed cases. The results can be contributed to develop the direction of nurses' mental health-related interventions during pandemic of emerging contagious disease.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2022-01
• Study First Submitted: 2022-01-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-01-21
• Study Start: 2022-01-25
• Study First Posted: 2022-01-25
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-01-25
• Last Update Posted: 2022-02-09
• Primary Completion: 2022-06-30
• Study Completion: 2022-07-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 250

Inclusion Criteria

• Above/include 20-year-old.
• Those who can operate mobile communication software or computers and can fill in online questionnaires.
• Clinical nurses who had provided nursing care for COVID-19 confirmed cases from May 2021.

Exclusion Criteria

• Those who did not provide nursing care for COVID-19 confirmed cases.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Interaction effect between research variables	six months to collect and analysis data.	Factors including "stressors related to COVID-19", "stress coping", "resilience", and "compassion fatigue" have interaction effect.
Moderation effect between research variables	six months to collect and analysis data.	Both "stress coping" and "resilience" moderate the strength relationship between "stressors" and "compassion fatigue".

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

School of Nursing of National Taiwan University; 🇨🇳 Taipei, Taiwan

National Taiwan University Hospital; 🇨🇳 Taipei City, Zhongzheng Dist., Taiwan