Stress and Coping, Resilience, and Compassion Fatigue of Front-line Nurses During COVID-19 Pandemic

Sponsor

National Taiwan University (Other)

Overall Status

Recruiting

CT.gov ID

NCT05205564

Collaborator

National Taiwan University Hospital (Other)

250

Enrollment

Locations

6.1

Anticipated Duration (Months)

83.3

Patients Per Site

13.6

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

This is a cross-sectional research. The investigators plan to recruit about 250 front-line nurses who provided direct care to COVID-19 confirmed cases in a medical center in Taiwan. Online querstionnaires are used to collect the data. The relationship between variables such as stressors related to COVID-19, coping status, resilience, and compassion fatigue of participants will be analysis to provide the direction of nurses' mental health-related interventions.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
COVID-19 Pandemic Stressor, Psychological Mental Health Issue	Other: This is a cross-sectional research design.

Detailed Description

This project aims to identify the prevalence of compassion fatigue and the coping strategies for the nurses who work on the frontline of healthcare and are responsible for caring for patients with COVID-19 in Taiwan. The investigators planed to carry a cross-sectional study by a reliable and valid online questionnaire to explore the stressors related to COVID-19, coping status, resilience, and compassion fatigue of nurses who had the experience of caring for the COVID-19 confirmed cases in a medical center during the community outbreak in Taiwan from May 2021. Online questionnaires are used to collect the data. About two hundred and fifty nurses will be recruited, and the data will be analyzed by descriptive statistics, correlation statistics and Hayes's PROCESS model 6. It is expected that the research results can understand the current status and relationship of compassion fatigue, resilience and the adaptability of clinical nurses who are caring for the COVID-19 confirmed cases. The results can be contributed to develop the direction of nurses' mental health-related interventions during pandemic of emerging contagious disease.

Study Design

Study Type:

Observational [Patient Registry]

Anticipated Enrollment :

250 participants

Observational Model:

Cohort

Time Perspective:

Cross-Sectional

Official Title:

The Correlation of Stress and Coping, Resilience, and Compassion Fatigue of Nurses Staying on Front-line During COVID-19 Outbreak in Taiwan

Actual Study Start Date :

Jan 25, 2022

Anticipated Primary Completion Date :

Jun 30, 2022

Anticipated Study Completion Date :

Jul 31, 2022

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Interaction effect between research variables [six months to collect and analysis data.]
Factors including "stressors related to COVID-19", "stress coping", "resilience", and "compassion fatigue" have interaction effect.
Moderation effect between research variables [six months to collect and analysis data.]
Both "stress coping" and "resilience" moderate the strength relationship between "stressors" and "compassion fatigue".

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

20 Years and Older

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

Above/include 20-year-old.
Those who can operate mobile communication software or computers and can fill in online questionnaires.
Clinical nurses who had provided nursing care for COVID-19 confirmed cases from May

Exclusion Criteria:

Those who did not provide nursing care for COVID-19 confirmed cases.

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	National Taiwan University Hospital	Taipei City	Zhongzheng Dist.	Taiwan	100225
2	National Taiwan University Hospital	Taipei City	Zhongzheng Dist.	Taiwan	100
3	School of Nursing of National Taiwan University	Taipei		Taiwan	100