An observational study in Work Related Stress, sponsored by Region Gävleborg. Recruiting at 1 site in Sweden. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-04-10.
Sponsored by Region Gävleborg · Observational
Among 11 studies in Occupational Stress with a site in Sweden — 4 open to participants now, 4 under way, none of them phase 3. Occupational Stress · Sweden.
Among the 11 studies in Occupational Stress with a site in Sweden, this one is the only one that started in 2023, is one of 3 observational ones, and was the 7th registered.
236 studies on the registry are indexed under Occupational Stress; 63 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 250 is above the median of 200 across 62 observational studies indexed under Occupational Stress.
Browse Occupational Stress studies →4 of the 11 studies in Occupational Stress with a site in Sweden are open now, in 1 country. Each count lists the studies.
Of the 32 Occupational Stress studies recruiting now, 17 (53%) set no upper age limit and 12 (38%) stop at 75 or younger; 4 take children under 18; 23 take healthy volunteers.
This study: all sexes · no healthy volunteers.
The full table on the hub →11 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.
First in 2015; this study’s year is marked. 1 started in 2023.
Median enrollment 154 across the 8 interventional studies, 250 across the 3 observational. Of the 7 that completed or were terminated, 0 (0%) have results posted.
None of the 11 has an industry lead sponsor. The 5 most frequent:
Region Gävleborg is the lead sponsor of 14 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.
Region Gävleborg has 2 studies filed under Occupational Stress — fewer than ten, so there is no comparison to draw.
None of the studies under way reaches primary completion within a year.
Among the 11 studies in Occupational Stress with a site in Sweden, from their registry updates:
Nothing recorded among them since 2026-09-25.
This study addresses nursing acuity measures within somatic in-patient care. Quantitative and qualitative analyses will be used in order to examine staffing levels and nurses' perception of work environment, before, during and after the implementation of a patient acuity tool as a part of daily management.
Nurses' work environment is associated with both quality of care and organizational outcomes. There is a clear relationship between nurse staffing and both patient outcomes and nurses' perception of work environment. The severity of patients' illness is not sufficient for making nurse assignment decisions. One benchmark of staffing is valid measurement of patient acuity (patients' nursing care needs). Patient acuity measures offer a potential for real-time matching of patient demand for nursing care. It is defined as a measure of the severity of illness and the nursing care needs, complexity, and workload required to provide care to a patient or group of patients.
There is a limited amount of research that examine the process of making direct nurse staffing deicions in relation to patient acuity. By examining staffing levels and nurses' perception of work environment in relation to measured patient acuity, we hope to contribute to this field.
The overall aim of this research project is to examine patient-acuity measures as a part of daily management, as being introduced to five wards within the somatic in-patient care in Gävleborg County, Sweden in autumn 2023. The studies will focus on staffing levels in relation to the patient acuity scores and on nurses' perception of work environment, both before, during and after the start of the new work procedures, but also on a weekly basis, related to the acuity scores of the actual work shift.
Data will be collected before, 6 months, and12 months after the implementation of patient acuity measures, using a web-based survey that reaches all the nursing staff at the wards. Data will be analysed with descriptive and inference statistics to explore if the novel work process has brought differences of different asopects related to the nurses' work environment such as their well-being and perception of stress. As a reference, the same procedures will be carried out at two wards that haven't implemented patient acuity measures.
Patient-acuity measures will be collected two times a day (morning and evening shifts) from each of the five wards. Once a week, all nurses working at a particular shift will be asked to make a short estimation (through a paper-based form) of their perception of the work environment during that particular shift. These estimations with single item-measures will be compared with the patient acuity and actual staffing during the shift. An index will be used to compare staffing and patient acuity in the five wards.
Furthermore, semi-structured interviews with four nurses' and the manager from each ward will be conducted with the same time intervals as the web-based surveys. Results will be analysed with content analysis.
Nurses here refer to both trained nurses and assistant nurses.
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Line of therapy
A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.
“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.
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A tool for measuring patient acuity as a part of daily management will be implemented in four somatic in-patient care units.
Workplace environment
Questions on work environment will be asked through a survey. The survey contains questions from the following questionnaires: Conditions of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire (CWEQ-II), Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ), Thriving Scale and Staff Satisfaction with Care (SSC). CWEQ-II: Values between 1-5. Higher scores mean a better outcome in factors on perceived access to opportunity, support, information and resources in an individual's work setting. COPSOQ: Values between 1-5. Higher scores mean a better outcome in factors on stress and emotional demands, but a worse outcome in factors on workplace community and involvement, with one item reversed. SSC: Values between 1-7. Higher scores mean a better outcome. Thriving Scale: Values between 1-7. Higher scores means a better outcome, with one item reversed.
Time frame: Baseline measure during November 2021
Workplace environment
Questions on work environment will be asked through a survey. The survey contains questions from the following questionnaires: Conditions of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire (CWEQ-II), Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ), Thriving Scale and Staff Satisfaction with Care (SSC). CWEQ-II: Values between 1-5. Higher scores mean a better outcome in factors on perceived access to opportunity, support, information and resources in an individual's work setting. COPSOQ: Values between 1-5. Higher scores mean a better outcome in factors on stress and emotional demands, but a worse outcome in factors on workplace community and involvement, with one item reversed. SSC: Values between 1-7. Higher scores mean a better outcome. Thriving Scale: Values between 1-7. Higher scores means a better outcome, with one item reversed.
Time frame: Measures will be made approximately in June 2024.
Workplace environment
Questions on work environment will be asked through a survey. The survey contains questions from the following questionnaires: Conditions of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire (CWEQ-II), Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ), Thriving Scale and Staff Satisfaction with Care (SSC). CWEQ-II: Values between 1-5. Higher scores mean a better outcome in factors on perceived access to opportunity, support, information and resources in an individual's work setting. COPSOQ: Values between 1-5. Higher scores mean a better outcome in factors on stress and emotional demands, but a worse outcome in factors on workplace community and involvement, with one item reversed. SSC: Values between 1-7. Higher scores mean a better outcome. Thriving Scale: Values between 1-7. Higher scores means a better outcome, with one item reversed.
Time frame: Measures will be made approximately during December 2024.
Point estimations on workload and patient acuity
Short protocol involving questions about patient acuity measures in relation to the workshift. The point estimation includes questions about workload, patient safety, staffing, patient acuity. Values between 1 and 10 where higher scores mean a better outcome.
Time frame: Weekly measures from November 2023 to December 2024
Plan to share: Undecided
Started Sep 2023 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Mar 2025, 18 months after the start.
Of 27 observational studies under Occupational Stress, half reached primary completion within 25 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 4 and three quarters within 41. This study's planned 18 months is below that.
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