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REducing Stress and Improving professionaLs' vItality Using innovativE iNtervenTions

NCT06035666 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2023-09-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Introduction Up to half of hospital employees worldwide are experiencing symptoms of burnout. Therefore, interventions to improve mental health among hospital workers are urgently needed. Your World is an inexpensive and easy-to-use intervention that aims to reduce stress and increase resilience among hospital employees. Your world uses a blended approach, which includes a real-life personal session and challenges in the Your World app (for smartphone).

Hypothesis The investigators hypothesize that Your World will improve resilience and well-being and reduce stress among hospital employees.

Research objectives Main objective

\- Does Your World reduce stress among hospital employees as measured by the PSS-10?

Design Randomised controlled trial

Population Employees of the Erasmus University Medical Center including students and volunteers

Methods and study procedures Five hundred participants will be randomized 1:1 to receive either Your World (intervention) or the control app (control). In the intervention group, subjects will participate in one 'vitality session' before installing the app. At baseline and after 3 months hair samples questionnaires will be collected among the participants of both groups. At 6 months, same questionnaires will be collected.

Burden and risks There are no risks associated with participation in this study. The questionnaires can be filled out online in 15 minutes, hair collection takes 5 minutes. The vitality sessions take 1 hour and the use of the app takes 5 minutes a day.

Conditions

  • Mental Health Issue
  • Healthy Lifestyle
  • Stress, Psychological

Interventions

OTHER

Your World

Your World consists of a vitality session and use of the Your World app

OTHER

Control app

Control app, no effect on stress/vitality

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • ZonMw: The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development

    collaborator OTHER

  • Erasmus Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
66 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-01-01
Primary Completion
2024-01-01
Completion
2024-01-01

Countries

  • Netherlands

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