An observational study in Burn Out and EMS Exposures or Injuries of EMS Personnel, sponsored by Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Status unknown. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 68 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-06-30.
Sponsored by Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust · Observational
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Problem During the COVID 19 pandemic, NHS staff have become increasingly burned out. Mental health is the leading cause of staff sickness and absence in the NHS. Ambulance trusts have the highest rates of sickness across all NHS professions. Reduced staffing levels directly impacts service delivery. Staff struggling with poor mental health are more likely to make errors, have reduced empathy, and patients have lower patient satisfaction.
The Solution? Dog therapy is used in hospital settings around the world for patient benefit and staff welfare.
Evidence suggests dog therapy improves mood and reduces anxiety. Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) has a small, but established dog therapy scheme, organised by the health and wellbeing team.
This research aims to observe if dog therapy affects symptoms of burnout in YAS staff. We will use two sets of staff:
Patient facing staff Staff with remote patient contact
What will participants need to do?
Participants will be given a Copenhagen Burnout Inventory - a questionnaire focusing on three factors:
Personal burnout Work related burnout Client related burnout
Burnout will be measured in 4 categories; no/low, moderate, high and severe burnout.
The questionnaire will be completed at the beginning and end of 8 weeks of dog therapy.
We will calculate the difference in severity of burnout between baseline and after 8 weeks of dog therapy.
A PPI group has been consulted on methodology, wording of plain English summary and the dissemination plan.
This research will be distributed to all interested participants, published in an appropriate journal presented at conferences, and presented in the ICA dissemination event.
467 studies on the registry are indexed under Burnout, Psychological; 121 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 20 is below the median of 200 across 117 observational studies indexed under Burnout, Psychological.
Browse Burnout, Psychological studies →Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust is the lead sponsor of 6 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.
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Convenience sample of patient facing staff who are participating in Yorkshire Ambulance Service pet therapy scheme.
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Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) Employee with patient contact. Patient contact includes face to face to face or remote patient contact. Taking part in YAS dog therapy scheme. Completed no more than 2 dog therapy sessions to date. -
Exclusion Criteria:
Staff with no patient contact as part of their role. Staff on bank contract
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Ambulance Service Staff participating in pet therapy sessions.
Other: Copenhagen Burnout Inventry
Questionnaire
Mean difference in change of each section of Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) Score
CBI will be measured at week 0 and week 8. The CBI is composed of 3 sections. We will calculate a mean change in score for each of the 3 sections.
Time frame: 8 weeks.
Mean difference ambulance turnaround times.
We will calculate a mean difference in ambulance turnaround times for those participating in dog therapy vs those not participating on dog therapy.
Time frame: 8 weeks.
Drop out rate.
We will report the proportion of participants that withdraw from the study.
Time frame: 8 weeks.
No study locations are listed for this record.
Plan to share: Undecided
No publications or documents are linked to this record.
Start is estimated for Aug 2022; primary completion for Sep 2022, 1 month later.
Of 34 non-industry observational studies under Burnout, Psychological, half reached primary completion within 10 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 5 and three quarters within 28. This study's planned 1 month is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 37 studies reached it within 10 months; a quarter within 5 and three quarters within 28.
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