The WISER Study: Web Based Methods for Enhancing Resilience
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Burnout
- Sponsor
- Duke University
- Enrollment
- 8000
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in Emotional Exhaustion as measured by the 5-item Emotional Exhaustion Scale
- Status
- Recruiting
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
This is a research study to find out if web-based resilience tools can increase well-being.
Enrolled participants will try out one or more brief positive psychology tools. The tools ask participants to reflect on positive experiences or to do an activity (e.g., write a letter of gratitude). The study is entirely online and participants will be prompted to participate via email or text messages.
The study team is interested in the effects of the tools on stress, depression, and burnout in adults. A set of brief surveys are administered before and after using the tool, and again at follow-up periods (e.g., 1, 3, 6 and 12 months). Surveys are collected electronically using the secure, HIPAA-compliant survey software.
There is no direct benefit to participants for participating in this research study aside from the potential to experience improvements in well-being. Risks are minimal and include the potential to feel emotional or psychological distress when asked questions related to burnout.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Adults 18 and over are considered eligible for the study. A sub-sample will include employees (including but not limited to frontline caregivers, support staff and management) of the Duke University Health System, as well as external health systems. All participants will be invited to participate in one or more of the online tools. The investigators will allow the participation of any clinical areas/healthcare worker groups whose leaders express interest in building resilience. The investigators are targeting healthcare workers for recruitment in the study, but adults 18+ are eligible to participate in any of these tools. Identification as a healthcare worker or not is part of data collection in every tool.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Adults who are not proficient in English, do not have basic computer skills, or who have prohibitive vision or hearing disabilities will be excluded from this study as they will be incapable of full participation in the intervention and/or the survey process.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in Emotional Exhaustion as measured by the 5-item Emotional Exhaustion Scale
Time Frame: Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups
Survey scores are measured on a 1-5 Likert-like agreement scale.
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in Emotional Recovery as measured by the 4-item Emotional Recovery Scale(Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups)
- Change in Work-life Integration as measured by the 7-item Work-life Integration Scale(Baseline, Day 8, and 1, 6, and 12 month follow-ups)