Professional Exhaustion and Alternative Practices in Primary Care Nurses
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Burnout SyndromeC24.198
- Registration Number
- RBR-4xbqbw
- Lead Sponsor
- Departamento de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruitment completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
Nurses with a minimum of one year of professional work in the same health unit of Primary Care; nurses without a double professional relationship; nurses diagnosed with Burnout Syndrome
Exclusion Criteria
Nurses with limitations that make it impossible to receive auriculotherapy intervention; nurses on medical leave or vacations; nurses doing some kind of stress-specific treatment, pregnant women with coagulation disorders or developing malignant neoclassical diseases; nurses using beta-blockers or neuroleptic drugs or with ear injury.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Control and reduction of moderate or severe levels of Burnout Syndrome in diagnosed nurses, verified by the analysis of salivary cortisol by the competitive ELISA technique and by comparing levels of salivary cortisol collected before the intervention and after the intervention (auriculoterapia). The variation of cortisol should be at least 5% between the measurements before and after intervention.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Secondary outcomes are not expected