Advanced Practice Provider Intervention Study to Promote Wellness

N/AActive Not RecruitingNCT05743205

Colleen J Klein300 enrolled

Overview

This exploratory pilot study is designed as interventional study to examine the efficacy of a wellness initiative that involves use of a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) to assist in the development of diverse coping strategies such as management of stressors, self-care, time management, and any other goals, problems or concerns that APPs would like assistance with during the intervention period.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate an educational professional wellness program designed to assist professional clinicians in developing self-awareness and self-care choices as a means to improve engagement and resilience and to avoid/reduce burnout.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

300

Conditions

Job Stress Professional Burnout

Interventions

voluntary consultative wellness sessionBEHAVIORAL

Professional wellness counseling sessions provided to health care professionals through voluntary enrollment. Consultative sessions will conducted throughout the course of 1 year and number of subsequent sessions will be determined by the participant.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 68 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * employment within non-profit health care setting as a health care professional * working at least 50% of time in direct patient care * availability and interest in initial and follow-up wellness visits Exclusion Criteria: * actively participating in formalized counseling sessions through other services at time of recruitment into the study

Locations (1)

OSF HealthCare System

Peoria, Illinois, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Holmes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory; The Social Readjustment Rating Scale

The Holmes-Rahe Scale is used to life changes that may impact stress. Minimum values =150 pts or less; maximum values = 300 pts. or more; higher scores indicate higher susceptibility to stress-induced health problems.

Time frame: change from baseline stress measure at 1 year and 2 years.

The Brief Resilience Scale

The Brief Resilience Scale developed by Smith et al. (2008) is used to measure resilience. Minimum value =6 and maximum value = 30; mean value is used to determine scoring with higher value indicating more resilience.

Time frame: change from baseline in resilience measure at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years.

Work engagement is measured using the Utrecht Work and Well-being Survey Engagement instrument (UWES). The minimum value =0 and the maximum value = 54. Mean is used to determine scoring. Higher value indicates greater work engagement.

Time frame: change from baseline engagement measure at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years.

Advanced Practice Provider Well-being Index

measures the increased probability of distress risk for personal or professional consequences. Minimum value =0 and maximum value =7. Mean and standard deviation is computed and compared to normative data.

Time frame: change from baseline well-being measure at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years.

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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