Simulation-based Education for Managing Stress in ICU Nurses
- Conditions
- Professional Stress
- Interventions
- Other: Simulation during the study (5-day specific training with dedicated scenario done by an ICU expert simulation team)Other: questionnaire to define the presence of job strain at 6 monthsOther: questionnaire to define the presence of job strain at 12 months
- Registration Number
- NCT02672072
- Lead Sponsor
- Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille
- Brief Summary
I. Main outcome Decrease of the stress evaluated 6 months after training. Stress is defined as the presence of job strain as defined by Karasek.
II. Main secondary outcomes
* ICU nurses stress at one year
* Burnout
* Intent-to-leave the ICU
* Quality of life
III. Design
Prospective, randomized, open study comparing 2 groups of ICU nurses:
Simulation group and Control group
Nurses from 9 different adult ICUs will be included. Stratification by ICU will be done (to take into account differences between the ICUs regarding organization, activity, patients...).
This study is observational because nurses can participate to this training when they want. The fact that nurses are in control group delays their participation to this training but does not forbid them to particpate. The nurses from control group will participate to training at the end of study.
IV. Specific measures Control group: none
Simulation group: 5-day specific training with dedicated scenario done by an ICU expert simulation team
V. Study duration 48 months
VI. Ethical aspects - Reglementary concerns
* Study accepted by the Comité Consultatif sur le Traitement de l'Information en matière de Recherche dans le domaine de la Santé (CCTIRS) and by the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL)
* Information to the participants prior inclusion
VII. Study population Job strain evaluated in a French study was 59% . The same rate was observed in a survey done in our institution (Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille). We therefore hypothesized that the intervention (simulation) should be able to reduce the job strain from 59% to 45% of the participants. With a power of 80% and a risk a of 5%, this study needs to include 185 patients per arm. To take into account few participants who will not complete the study, we aimed to include a total of 400 ICU nurses.
VIII Results An interim analysis will be performed after 200 inclusions
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 198
- ICU nurses from adult ICUs with a professional experience in the actual ICU of at least 6 months and no decision to leave the ICU at the time of enrollment
Non inclusion Criteria:
- Less than 6 months of professional activity in the actual ICU at the time of enrollment
- Intent-to-leave in the next 6-month period
- Previous experience of this simulation program
- Pregnant women
Exclusion Criteria :
- ICU nurses who leave their city during the study period
- Pregnant women who miss their job during at least 4 weeks during the study period
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Simulation group questionnaire to define the presence of job strain at 12 months 5-day specific training with dedicated scenario done by an ICU expert simulation team Simulation group questionnaire to define the presence of job strain at 6 months 5-day specific training with dedicated scenario done by an ICU expert simulation team Control group questionnaire to define the presence of job strain at 6 months 5-day specific training with dedicated scenario done by an ICU expert simulation team after the period of the study Simulation group Simulation during the study (5-day specific training with dedicated scenario done by an ICU expert simulation team) 5-day specific training with dedicated scenario done by an ICU expert simulation team Control group questionnaire to define the presence of job strain at 12 months 5-day specific training with dedicated scenario done by an ICU expert simulation team after the period of the study
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Presence of job stain evaluated by the French version of the Karasek scale 6 months Presence of job strain: psychological demand of work \> 21 and decision latitude \< 72
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Stress evaluated by the Karasek scale enrollment and 1 year Karasek questionnaire
Psychosocial risks (Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire) enrollment, 6 months and one year French version of the COPSOQ (Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire)
Burnout (Maslach Burnout Inventory) enrollment, 6 months and one year French version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory
Intent-to-leave (Number of enrolled nurses who leave the actual ICU) enrollment, 6 months and one year Number of enrolled nurses who leave the actual ICU
Quality of life (visual analogic scale) enrollment, 6 months and one year visual analogic scale from 0 to 10
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
AP-HM
🇫🇷Marseille, France