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Status unknownNCT03385811Updated Dec 29, 2017

Exploring ProQOL, Health Status, Job Involvement and Turnover in Medical Professionals

An observational study in Intention to Stay, Turnover Behavior, sponsored by China Medical University Hospital. Status unknown. Open to participants aged 20 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-12-29.

Sponsored by China Medical University Hospital · Observational

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Nov 2017), so the status shown — last known as Not yet recruiting — may be out of date.
Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
550
Ages
20 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The study design is a cross-sectional study. Purposive sampling will be conducted in three hospitals in the central of Taiwan. The participants will include physicians, nurse practitioners and nurses. The number of 550 participants will be recruited. The measurements are questionnaires include demographic data, professional quality of life scale (ProQOL), Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ), SF-36 and intention to stay questionnaire.

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Medical and Nursing care is a high-pressure work environment. The charterer of medical and nursing care includes urgency of patients' problems, an unpredictable number of patients, and lack of medical professionals. This high-level of pressure working environment not only affects the persons' physical and mental health, increase turnover rate, but also might indirectly reduce the quality of care, even threaten the life of patients.

The purpose of this study is to explore the correlation between professional quality of life, health status, job involvement and intention to stay in medical professionals, and the predictive factors of intention to stay and turnover behavior.

The study design is a cross-sectional study. Purposive sampling will be conducted in three hospitals in the central of Taiwan. The participants will include physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses. The number of 550 participants will be recruited. The measurements are questionnaires include demographic data, professional quality of life scale (ProQOL), Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ), SF-36 and intention to stay questionnaire.

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Conditions studied

  • Intention to Stay, Turnover Behavior

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Keywords

  • Professional quality of life, Medical Professionals, Job Involvement, Intention to Stay,
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In context

Behavior

1,573 studies on the registry are indexed under Behavior; 313 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 550 is above the median of 235 across 341 observational studies indexed under Behavior.

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Lead sponsor

China Medical University Hospital is the lead sponsor of 479 studies on the registry; 115 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
20 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

Medical professions who work in the hospital

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Aged over 20 years old
  2. Currently serving as a hospital care provider
  3. Job title as attending physician, resident, nurse practitioners, nurse
  4. Directly practicing in patients' care

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Medical Director
  2. Clinical Researcher
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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
550 participants (estimated)
Target follow-up
3 Months
Patient registry
Yes

Groups and cohorts

  • Medical Professionals

    no intervention, only questionnaire survey

    Other: no intervention, only questionnaires survey

Interventions

  • Otherno intervention, only questionnaires survey

    questionnaires survey

    Also known as: no intervention

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. professional quality of life scale

    Professional quality of life scale consists of compassion satisfaction (CS), burnout(BO), and secondary traumatic stress (compassion fatigue, CF)

    Time frame: within past 30 days

  2. Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ)

    Job Involvement Questionnaire (JIQ) includes 4 items

    Time frame: within past 30 days

  3. SF-36

    36 items

    Time frame: within past 30 days

  4. intention to stay questionnaire

    6 items

    Time frame: within past 30 days

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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References and documents

Publications

  • Mason VM, Leslie G, Clark K, Lyons P, Walke E, Butler C, Griffin M. Compassion fatigue, moral distress, and work engagement in surgical intensive care unit trauma nurses: a pilot study. Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2014 Jul-Aug;33(4):215-25. doi: 10.1097/DCC.0000000000000056. PubMed 24895952 ↗
  • Neville K, Cole DA. The relationships among health promotion behaviors, compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction in nurses practicing in a community medical center. J Nurs Adm. 2013 Jun;43(6):348-54. doi: 10.1097/NNA.0b013e3182942c23. PubMed 23708503 ↗
  • Bellolio MF, Cabrera D, Sadosty AT, Hess EP, Campbell RL, Lohse CM, Sunga KL. Compassion fatigue is similar in emergency medicine residents compared to other medical and surgical specialties. West J Emerg Med. 2014 Sep;15(6):629-35. doi: 10.5811/westjem.2014.5.21624. PubMed 25247031 ↗
  • Hinderer KA, VonRueden KT, Friedmann E, McQuillan KA, Gilmore R, Kramer B, Murray M. Burnout, compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, and secondary traumatic stress in trauma nurses. J Trauma Nurs. 2014 Jul-Aug;21(4):160-9. doi: 10.1097/JTN.0000000000000055. PubMed 25023839 ↗
  • Hunsaker S, Chen HC, Maughan D, Heaston S. Factors that influence the development of compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion satisfaction in emergency department nurses. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2015 Mar;47(2):186-94. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12122. Epub 2015 Jan 20. PubMed 25644276 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Dec 29, 2017, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03385811
Responsible party
Li-chi Huang (associate professor, China Medical University Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Dec 29, 2017
Start date
Jan 1, 2018 (estimated)
Primary completion
May 31, 2018 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 30, 2018 (estimated)
Last update
Dec 29, 2017

Study contacts

Li-Chi Huang
Contact
lichi@mail.cmu.edu.tw
886-4-22053366 ext. 7120
Li-Chi Huang
study chair · Associate Professor, Nursing school, China Medical Univerisity, Taiwan.

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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