Mental HealthNCT06822777
RISE for Nurse Preceptors
A study testing RISE for Nurse Preceptors Program in people with Mental Health and Resilience, run by AdventHealth at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether RISE for Nurse Preceptors has a significant impact on nurse preceptors' burnout, resilience, insight, self-compassion, and empowerment, as well as mental well-being, in their personal lives and their working environment. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Mental Health, Resilience, Self-Compassion
- What is being tested?
- RISE for Nurse Preceptors Program
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 124 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- 1 Mar 2025to 1 Nov 2026
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
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 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Adult ≥ 18 years old
- Licensed as an RN
- Employed by AdventHealth Rocky Mountain Region
- Completion of the AdventHealth preceptor training
- Has precepted ≥ 48 hours within the past calendar year in an AdventHealth hospital setting or outpatient emergency center
- Able to speak, read, and understand English fluently
- Able to provide informed consent
- Willing and able to comply with all study procedures and requirements for the duration of the study.
Who cannot join
- Has precepted < 48 hours within the past calendar year
- Does not pass the brief risk assessment in the pre-intervention introduction meeting with the LMHC facilitator
- Unwilling or unable to comply with all study procedures and requirements for the duration of the study.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official title: A Randomized Controlled Trial of RISE for Nurse Preceptors
The purpose of this study is to determine whether RISE for Nurse Preceptors has a significant impact on nurse preceptors' burnout, resilience, insight, self-compassion, and empowerment, as well as mental well-being, in their personal lives and their working environment.
- Conditions
- Mental Health, Resilience, Self-Compassion, Empowerment, Well-Being, Psychological, Burnout, Healthcare Workers
- Being tested
- RISE for Nurse Preceptors Program
- Medical subject headings
- Psychological Well-Being, Empowerment, Burnout, Psychological
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
RISE for Nurse Preceptors ProgramBehavioural
Psychoeducational group program designed to impact resilience, insight, self-compassion, and empowerment
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Intervention group | Experimental | Intervention group will attend the RISE for Nurse Preceptors program, which consists of nine 90-minute weekly psychoeducational group sessions facilitated by a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) Receives: Behavioral: RISE for Nurse Preceptors Program |
| Wait-list control group | Active comparator | Control group will attend the RISE for Nurse Preceptors program after the 6-month wait-list period Receives: Behavioral: RISE for Nurse Preceptors Program |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Professional Quality of Life Scale
30-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=never, 2=rarely, 3=sometimes, 4=often, 5=very often
Measured: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Secondary outcomes (12)
Posttraumatic Growth Inventory
21-item questionnaire with a scale of 0-5, with 0 meaning I did not experience this change as a result of my crisis; and 5 meaning I experienced this change to a very great degree as a result of my crisis
Measured: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Brief Resilience Scale
6-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=strongly agree, 2=disagree, 3=neutral, 4=agree, 5=strongly agree
Measured: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Self-Reflection and Insight Scale
20-item questionnaire with a scale of 1-6; with 1 meaning strongly disagree; and 6 meaning strongly agree
Measured: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Self-Compassion Scale - Short Form
12-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=almost never, 2, 3, 4, 5=almost always
Measured: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Psychological Empowerment Instrument
12-item questionnaire with a scale of A-G, with A meaning very strongly disagree; and G meaning very strongly agree
Measured: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
General Self-Efficacy Scale
10-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=not at all true, 2=barely true, 3=moderately true, 4=exactly true
Measured: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Perceived Stress Scale
10-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 0=never, 1=almost never, 2=sometimes, 3=fairly often, 4=very often
Measured: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Moral Injury Outcomes Scale
14-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 0=strongly agree, 1=disagree, 2=neither agree or disagree, 3=agree, 4=strongly agree
Measured: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Brief COPE
28-item questionnaire with a scale of 1-4, with 1 meaning I haven't been doing this at all; and 4 meaning I've been doing this a lot
Measured: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Generalized Anxiety Disorder - 2 item scale
2-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 0=not at all, 1=several days, 2=more than half the days, 3=nearly every day
Measured: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Patient Health Questionnaire - 2 item
2-item scale with the following response categories: 0=not at all, 1=several days, 2=more than half the days, 3=nearly every day
Measured: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Preceptor Self-Assessment Tool
40-item scale with the following response categories: 1 (lowest), 2 (low), 3 (average), 4 (high), 5 (highest).
Measured: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted12 Feb 2025
- Study start1 Mar 2025
- Primary completion2 Feb 2026
- Study completion1 Nov 2026 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (16)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Mental HealthStudies 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
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 124 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- AdventHealth
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Amanda T Sawyer, PhD, Principal investigator, AdventHealth
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06822777
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 2251716
- Status last verified
- Oct 2026
- First submitted
- 7 Feb 2025
- Last updated
- 13 Oct 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Publications
Bailey AK, Sawyer AT, Robinson PS. A Psychoeducational Group Intervention for Nurses: Rationale, Theoretical Framework, and Development. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2023 May-Jun;29(3):232-240. doi: 10.1177/10783903211001116. Epub 2021 Jun 22.
PubMed 34154451Carver CS. You want to measure coping but your protocol's too long: consider the brief COPE. Int J Behav Med. 1997;4(1):92-100. doi: 10.1207/s15327558ijbm0401_6.
PubMed 16250744Cohen S, Kamarck T, Mermelstein R. A global measure of perceived stress. J Health Soc Behav. 1983 Dec;24(4):385-96. No abstract available.
PubMed 6668417Grant, A. M., Franklin, J., & Langford, P. (2002). The Self-Reflection and Insight Scale: A new measure of private self-consciousness. Social Behavior and Personality, 30(8), 821-836.
Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB. The Patient Health Questionnaire-2: validity of a two-item depression screener. Med Care. 2003 Nov;41(11):1284-92. doi: 10.1097/01.MLR.0000093487.78664.3C.
PubMed 14583691Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB, Monahan PO, Lowe B. Anxiety disorders in primary care: prevalence, impairment, comorbidity, and detection. Ann Intern Med. 2007 Mar 6;146(5):317-25. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-146-5-200703060-00004.
PubMed 17339617L'Ecuyer K, Subramaniam DS, Reansing C, DuBois JC. Psychometric Testing of the Preceptor Self-Assessment Tool (PSAT)-40 for Nursing Preceptors. J Contin Educ Nurs. 2022 Nov;53(11):491-499. doi: 10.3928/00220124-20221006-06. Epub 2022 Nov 1.
PubMed 36318709Litz BT, Plouffe RA, Nazarov A, Murphy D, Phelps A, Coady A, Houle SA, Dell L, Frankfurt S, Zerach G, Levi-Belz Y; Moral Injury Outcome Scale Consortium. Defining and Assessing the Syndrome of Moral Injury: Initial Findings of the Moral Injury Outcome Scale Consortium. Front Psychiatry. 2022 Jul 5;13:923928. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.923928. eCollection 2022.
PubMed 35873252Raes F, Pommier E, Neff KD, Van Gucht D. Construction and factorial validation of a short form of the Self-Compassion Scale. Clin Psychol Psychother. 2011 May-Jun;18(3):250-5. doi: 10.1002/cpp.702. Epub 2010 Jun 8.
PubMed 21584907Sawyer AT, Bailey AK, Green JF, Sun J, Robinson PS. Resilience, Insight, Self-Compassion, and Empowerment (RISE): A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Psychoeducational Group Program for Nurses. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2023 Jul-Aug;29(4):314-327. doi: 10.1177/10783903211033338. Epub 2021 Jul 23.
PubMed 34293934Sawyer AT, Tao H, Bailey AK. The Impact of a Psychoeducational Group Program on the Mental Well-Being of Unit-Based Nurse Leaders: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jun 2;20(11):6035. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20116035.
PubMed 37297639Sawyer AT, McManus K, Bailey AK. A mixed-methods pilot study of a psychoeducational group programme for nurse managers during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Nurs Manag. 2022 Nov;30(8):4126-4137. doi: 10.1111/jonm.13881. Epub 2022 Nov 13.
PubMed 36326077Smith BW, Dalen J, Wiggins K, Tooley E, Christopher P, Bernard J. The brief resilience scale: assessing the ability to bounce back. Int J Behav Med. 2008;15(3):194-200. doi: 10.1080/10705500802222972.
PubMed 18696313Spreitzer, G. M. (1995). Psychological empowerment in the workplace: Dimensions, measurement, and validation. Academy of Management Journal, 38(5), 1442-1465.
Stamm, B. H. (2009). Professional Quality of Life: Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue Version 5 (ProQOL). http://www.proqol.org.
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 13 Oct 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of RISE for Nurse Preceptors
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06822777
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 2251716
- Conditions
- Mental Health, Resilience, Self-Compassion, Empowerment, Well-Being, Psychological, Burnout, Healthcare Workers
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Active, not recruiting
- Enrolment
- 124 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- AdventHealthUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 1 Mar 2025 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 2 Feb 2026 (actual)
- Study completion
- 1 Nov 2026 (estimated)
- First posted
- 12 Feb 2025 (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.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether RISE for Nurse Preceptors has a significant impact on nurse preceptors' burnout, resilience, insight, self-compassion, and empowerment, as well as mental well-being, in their personal lives and their working environment.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Intervention group | Experimental | Behavioral: RISE for Nurse Preceptors ProgramIntervention group will attend the RISE for Nurse Preceptors program, which consists of nine 90-minute weekly psychoeducational group sessions facilitated by a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) |
| Wait-list control group | Active comparator | Behavioral: RISE for Nurse Preceptors ProgramControl group will attend the RISE for Nurse Preceptors program after the 6-month wait-list period |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (8 listed)
- Adult ≥ 18 years old
- Licensed as an RN
- Employed by AdventHealth Rocky Mountain Region
- Completion of the AdventHealth preceptor training
- Has precepted ≥ 48 hours within the past calendar year in an AdventHealth hospital setting or outpatient emergency center
Key exclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Has precepted < 48 hours within the past calendar year
- Does not pass the brief risk assessment in the pre-intervention introduction meeting with the LMHC facilitator
- Unwilling or unable to comply with all study procedures and requirements for the duration of the study.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RISE for Nurse Preceptors ProgramPsychoeducational group program designed to impact resilience, insight, self-compassion, and empowerment | Behavioural | Intervention group, Wait-list control group |
Primary outcome
Professional Quality of Life Scale
Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
30-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=never, 2=rarely, 3=sometimes, 4=often, 5=very often
12 secondary outcomes
Posttraumatic Growth Inventory
Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Brief Resilience Scale
Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Self-Reflection and Insight Scale
Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Self-Compassion Scale - Short Form
Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Psychological Empowerment Instrument
Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
General Self-Efficacy Scale
Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Perceived Stress Scale
Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Moral Injury Outcomes Scale
Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Brief COPE
Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Generalized Anxiety Disorder - 2 item scale
Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Patient Health Questionnaire - 2 item
Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Preceptor Self-Assessment Tool
Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 13 Oct 2026.
- Background: PubMed 34154451Bailey AK, Sawyer AT, Robinson PS. A Psychoeducational Group Intervention for Nurses: Rationale, Theoretical Framework, and Development. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2023 May-Jun;29(3):232-240. doi: 10.1177/10783903211001116. Epub 2021 Jun 22.
- Background: PubMed 16250744Carver CS. You want to measure coping but your protocol's too long: consider the brief COPE. Int J Behav Med. 1997;4(1):92-100. doi: 10.1207/s15327558ijbm0401_6.
- Background: PubMed 6668417Cohen S, Kamarck T, Mermelstein R. A global measure of perceived stress. J Health Soc Behav. 1983 Dec;24(4):385-96. No abstract available.
- BackgroundGrant, A. M., Franklin, J., & Langford, P. (2002). The Self-Reflection and Insight Scale: A new measure of private self-consciousness. Social Behavior and Personality, 30(8), 821-836.
- Background: PubMed 14583691Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB. The Patient Health Questionnaire-2: validity of a two-item depression screener. Med Care. 2003 Nov;41(11):1284-92. doi: 10.1097/01.MLR.0000093487.78664.3C.
- Background: PubMed 17339617Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB, Monahan PO, Lowe B. Anxiety disorders in primary care: prevalence, impairment, comorbidity, and detection. Ann Intern Med. 2007 Mar 6;146(5):317-25. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-146-5-200703060-00004.
- Background: PubMed 36318709L'Ecuyer K, Subramaniam DS, Reansing C, DuBois JC. Psychometric Testing of the Preceptor Self-Assessment Tool (PSAT)-40 for Nursing Preceptors. J Contin Educ Nurs. 2022 Nov;53(11):491-499. doi: 10.3928/00220124-20221006-06. Epub 2022 Nov 1.
- Background: PubMed 35873252Litz BT, Plouffe RA, Nazarov A, Murphy D, Phelps A, Coady A, Houle SA, Dell L, Frankfurt S, Zerach G, Levi-Belz Y; Moral Injury Outcome Scale Consortium. Defining and Assessing the Syndrome of Moral Injury: Initial Findings of the Moral Injury Outcome Scale Consortium. Front Psychiatry. 2022 Jul 5;13:923928. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.923928. eCollection 2022.
- Background: PubMed 21584907Raes F, Pommier E, Neff KD, Van Gucht D. Construction and factorial validation of a short form of the Self-Compassion Scale. Clin Psychol Psychother. 2011 May-Jun;18(3):250-5. doi: 10.1002/cpp.702. Epub 2010 Jun 8.
- Background: PubMed 34293934Sawyer AT, Bailey AK, Green JF, Sun J, Robinson PS. Resilience, Insight, Self-Compassion, and Empowerment (RISE): A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Psychoeducational Group Program for Nurses. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2023 Jul-Aug;29(4):314-327. doi: 10.1177/10783903211033338. Epub 2021 Jul 23.
- Background: PubMed 37297639Sawyer AT, Tao H, Bailey AK. The Impact of a Psychoeducational Group Program on the Mental Well-Being of Unit-Based Nurse Leaders: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jun 2;20(11):6035. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20116035.
- Background: PubMed 36326077Sawyer AT, McManus K, Bailey AK. A mixed-methods pilot study of a psychoeducational group programme for nurse managers during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Nurs Manag. 2022 Nov;30(8):4126-4137. doi: 10.1111/jonm.13881. Epub 2022 Nov 13.
- 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.
Amanda T Sawyer, PhD principal investigator
AdventHealth
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing RISE for Nurse Preceptors Program in people with Mental Health and Resilience, run by AdventHealth at 1 site in United States.
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 8 inclusion and 3 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: under way, not looking for participants, as of the sponsor's last update on 13 Oct 2026. 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 United States. 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?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Professional Quality of Life Scale (time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT06822777, which also lists 16 linked publications.
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 13 Oct 2026.