HospitalismNCT05608512
Emotional Labor, Physical Labor and Mental Labor of Hospice Care Nurses: A Mixed-method Study
An observational study of Hospitalism, run by Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine at 1 site in China.
Trial summary
Hospice care is a nurse-led multidisciplinary team care that provides physical, mental, and social care to end-of-life patients. According to the WHO, the role of hospice nurses is addressing suffering involves taking care of issues beyond physical symptoms, to support patients and their caregivers. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 65 years
- Conditions the study is for
- Hospitalism
- What is being tested?
- interview
- How many people
- 200 participants
- Where
- 1 siteChina
- Study dates
- 1 Feb 2022to 30 Nov 2022
- Phase
- Observational
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 to 65 years
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Study population: Nurses working as registered nurses for 6 months or more.
Who may be able to join
- The inclusion criteria were nurses working as registered nurses for 6 months or more.
Who cannot join
- Nurses who were not directly involved in patient care (e.g., central sterile supply department nurses), and intern nurses were excluded.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
China1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
Wu Ye
Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029
Yuxi Zhang, master, 13770653609, zhangyuxi830@163.com
About this study
Official title: Emotional Labour, Mental Labour, Self-efficacy and Potential Influencing Factors of Hospice Care Nurses During COVID-19: A Mixed-method Study
Hospice care is a nurse-led multidisciplinary team care that provides physical, mental, and social care to end-of-life patients. According to the WHO, the role of hospice nurses is addressing suffering involves taking care of issues beyond physical symptoms, to support patients and their caregivers. Different from other disease care, hospice nurses face end-of-life patients and their families. As the primary nursing contact of a dying family, hospice nurses have a more intense and complex emotional experience. In China, with the improvement of human rights protection awareness, the nurse-patient relationship is particularly important, and the social requirements for nursing workers are also getting higher and higher. In addition, hospice nurses not only provide physical and psychological care to patients, but also provide comprehensive care to families of end-of-life patients. It is not just the mental work of learning expertise and dealing with emergency situations, and the physical labor of caring for large numbers of patients; but also requires emotional labor that has rarely been recognized before. When facing end-of-life patients and their families, it is particularly important to express appropriate emotions and pay emotional labor.
- Conditions
- Hospitalism
- Being tested
- interview
- Keywords
- hospice, advanced cancer, palliative care, nurse
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
interviewOther
The first phase included a qualitative study. We conducted a qualitative phenomenological method to better explicate and understand palliative care nurses' emotional labor experiences, as well as the dilemmas and solutions they encounter when physical, mental, and emotional labor intertwine at work. In the early stage, we compiled an interview outline by a written qualitative meta-analysis about the emotional labor, and added the contents in the interview outline according to the actual situation in the later interview process.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| hospice care nurses | nurses who have worked in a palliative care or hospice unit Receives: Other: interview |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Chinese version scale of emotional labor
The ELS for nurses was developed by Hong and Kim (Hong \& Kim, 2018), which is a 16-item scale using a five-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 5 (very true), with a total score ranging from 16 to 80. Higher scores indicate higher levels of emotional labor.
Measured: 1 day
Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale -21 (DASS-21)
Chinese version of DASS-21 has a total of 21 items and measures three negative emotional experiences of depression, anxiety and stress (Jiang et al., 2021).
Measured: 1 day
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted8 Nov 2022
- Study start1 Feb 2022
- Primary completion30 Oct 2022
- Study completion30 Nov 2022 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for HospitalismStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Observational
- Observational model
- Other
- Time perspective
- Cross-sectional
- Enrolment
- 200 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Huichao Zhang, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05608512
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- NMU22_1101
- Status last verified
- Dec 2022
- First submitted
- 1 Nov 2022
- Last updated
- 6 Dec 2022
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 6 Dec 2022. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Emotional Labour, Mental Labour, Self-efficacy and Potential Influencing Factors of Hospice Care Nurses During COVID-19: A Mixed-method Study
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05608512
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- NMU22_1101
- Conditions
- Hospitalism
- Keywords
- hospice, advanced cancer, palliative care, nurse
- Study type
- Observational
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 200 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese MedicineUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 1 Feb 2022 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 30 Oct 2022 (actual)
- Study completion
- 30 Nov 2022 (estimated)
- First posted
- 8 Nov 2022 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Hospice care is a nurse-led multidisciplinary team care that provides physical, mental, and social care to end-of-life patients. According to the WHO, the role of hospice nurses is addressing suffering involves taking care of issues beyond physical symptoms, to support patients and their caregivers. Different from other disease care, hospice nurses face end-of-life patients and their families. As the primary nursing contact of a dying family, hospice nurses have a more intense and complex emotional experience. In China, with the improvement of human rights protection awareness, the nurse-patient relationship is particularly important, and the social requirements for nursing workers are also getting higher and higher. In addition, hospice nurses not only provide physical and psychological care to patients, but also provide comprehensive care to families of end-of-life patients. It is not just the mental work of learning expertise and dealing with emergency situations, and the physical labor of caring for large numbers of patients; but also requires emotional labor that has rarely been recognized before. When facing end-of-life patients and their families, it is particularly important to express appropriate emotions and pay emotional labor.
Study design
- Observational model
- Other
- Time perspective
- Cross-sectional
- Number of arms
- 1
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| hospice care nurses | – | Other: interviewnurses who have worked in a palliative care or hospice unit |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 to 65 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
- Study population
- Nurses working as registered nurses for 6 months or more.
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- The inclusion criteria were nurses working as registered nurses for 6 months or more.
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Nurses who were not directly involved in patient care (e.g., central sterile supply department nurses), and intern nurses were excluded.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| interviewThe first phase included a qualitative study. We conducted a qualitative phenomenological method to better explicate and understand palliative care nurses' emotional labor experiences, as well as the dilemmas and solutions they encounter when physical, mental, and emotional labor intertwine at work. In the early stage, we compiled an interview outline by a written qualitative meta-analysis about the emotional labor, and added the contents in the interview outline according to the actual situation in the later interview process. | Other | hospice care nurses |
Primary outcome
Chinese version scale of emotional labor
Time frame: 1 day
The ELS for nurses was developed by Hong and Kim (Hong \& Kim, 2018), which is a 16-item scale using a five-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 5 (very true), with a total score ranging from 16 to 80. Higher scores indicate higher levels of emotional labor.
Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale -21 (DASS-21)
Time frame: 1 day
Chinese version of DASS-21 has a total of 21 items and measures three negative emotional experiences of depression, anxiety and stress (Jiang et al., 2021).
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 6 Dec 2022.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
An observational study of Hospitalism, run by Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine at 1 site in China.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 6 Dec 2022. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in China. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
Results are not available in the source record.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Each site lists its own contact: choose the nearest one under Trial locations. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Chinese version scale of emotional labor (time frame: 1 day). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 6 Dec 2022.