Biofeedback Efects on Stress, Anxiety, and Quality of Professional Life on Nursing Staff of an University Hospital
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 272
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Stress
研究概览
简要总结
Randomized Clinical Trial comparing two groups: placebo group without self-monitoring of heart rate variability (HRV) and biofeedback intervention that includes self-monitoring of HRV
详细描述
Its main objective is to evaluate the effects of Biofeedback intervention on the stress, and anxiety levels, as well as the quality of professional life, and their coping mechanisms, of a nursing staff from de Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. The research will have two phases, first to select the nursing staff sample, and then to apply and evaluate the intervention. From 2.219 individuals will be randomly drawn a sample of 272 participants. All will respond a questionnaire (Vasconcelos Symptoms and Stress List) in order to obtain a general level of stress score greater than 1 (inclusion criteria to enter the RCT). The 272 group will be randomly split in two groups (136 subjects each) to compare the intervention vs placebo.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 60 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Nursing staff
- •Both sexes
- •Working activities
- •Admitted in the last 90 days
- •Presenting a level stress greater then 1
排除标准
- •Pregnant and breast feeding professionals
- •Those away from work a long time, and or returning from vacations in the last 15 days. ----Participants with any kind of cardiac pathology
结局指标
主要结局
Stress
时间窗: 4 weeks
Stress evaluation will be measured by the 23 items Work Stress Scale (WST), likert scale with each item corresponding to a stressor and the reaction the subject has to it. Scores vary from 23 to 111 points, with good reliability (COM µ = 0,91). Results were obtained by the items media sum, considering occupational stress as low (values between 1 and 2), moderate (2,01 to 2,99), or high (3 to 5).
次要结局
未报告次要终点