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Active, not recruitingNCT06822777Updated Oct 13, 2026

RISE for Nurse Preceptors

An interventional study of RISE for Nurse Preceptors Program in Mental Health, Resilience and Self-Compassion, sponsored by AdventHealth. Active, not recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-13.

Primary conditionEmpowermentRegistry: Psychological Well-BeingReclassifiedWhy we changed it
Registry
Psychological Well-Being — the first condition term the registry derived for this study.
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Empowerment
Why
  1. Psychological Well-Being is a broad heading, used only when no more specific condition is named.
  2. The study's listed conditions name Empowerment.
Confidence
High: the new condition is named in the study's own listed conditions. Of 351 hand-checked studies reclassified this way, 68% were exactly right and 84% in the right disease family; the registry's first term was right for 5% (measured 2026-10-21). How we classify →
Wrong?
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Sponsored by AdventHealth · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care

Updated Oct 13, 2026Primary completion movedStudy completion movedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
124
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study 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.

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Conditions studied

  • Mental Health
  • Resilience
  • Self-Compassion
  • Empowerment
  • Well-Being, Psychological
  • Burnout, Healthcare Workers

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In context

Empowerment Reclassified

154 studies on the registry are indexed under Empowerment; 31 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 124 is below the median of 141 across 132 interventional studies indexed under Empowerment.

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Lead sponsor

AdventHealth is the lead sponsor of 113 studies on the registry; 22 are open to participants now.

Of its 5 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 2 (40%) have results posted.

Compared within Empowerment, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Psychological Well-Being. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Adult ≥ 18 years old
  2. Licensed as an RN
  3. Employed by AdventHealth Rocky Mountain Region
  4. Completion of the AdventHealth preceptor training
  5. Has precepted ≥ 48 hours within the past calendar year in an AdventHealth hospital setting or outpatient emergency center
  6. Able to speak, read, and understand English fluently
  7. Able to provide
  8. Willing and able to comply with all study procedures and requirements for the duration of the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Has precepted \< 48 hours within the past calendar year
  2. Does not pass the brief risk assessment in the pre-intervention introduction meeting with the LMHC facilitator
  3. Unwilling or unable to comply with all study procedures and requirements for the duration of the study.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(1)

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Informed consent

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You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Supportive care
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
124 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Intervention group

    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)

    Behavioral: RISE for Nurse Preceptors Program

  • Active comparator
    Wait-list control group

    Control group will attend the RISE for Nurse Preceptors program after the 6-month wait-list period

    Behavioral: RISE for Nurse Preceptors Program

Interventions

  • BehavioralRISE for Nurse Preceptors Program

    Psychoeducational group program designed to impact resilience, insight, self-compassion, and empowerment

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Professional Quality of Life Scale

    30-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=never, 2=rarely, 3=sometimes, 4=often, 5=very often

    Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up

Secondary outcomes

  1. 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

    Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up

  2. Brief Resilience Scale

    6-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=strongly agree, 2=disagree, 3=neutral, 4=agree, 5=strongly agree

    Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up

  3. Self-Reflection and Insight Scale

    20-item questionnaire with a scale of 1-6; with 1 meaning strongly disagree; and 6 meaning strongly agree

    Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up

  4. Self-Compassion Scale - Short Form

    12-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=almost never, 2, 3, 4, 5=almost always

    Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up

  5. Psychological Empowerment Instrument

    12-item questionnaire with a scale of A-G, with A meaning very strongly disagree; and G meaning very strongly agree

    Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up

  6. 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

    Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up

  7. Perceived Stress Scale

    10-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 0=never, 1=almost never, 2=sometimes, 3=fairly often, 4=very often

    Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up

  8. 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

    Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up

  9. 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

    Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up

  10. 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

    Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up

  11. 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

    Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up

  12. Preceptor Self-Assessment Tool

    40-item scale with the following response categories: 1 (lowest), 2 (low), 3 (average), 4 (high), 5 (highest).

    Time frame: Baseline, endpoint, and 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-up

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Study locations

1 site
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References and documents

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 34154451 ↗
  • Carver 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 16250744 ↗
  • Cohen 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 6668417 ↗
  • Grant, 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 14583691 ↗
  • Kroenke 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 17339617 ↗
  • L'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 36318709 ↗
  • Litz 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 35873252 ↗
  • Raes 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 21584907 ↗
  • Sawyer 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 34293934 ↗
  • Sawyer 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 37297639 ↗
  • Sawyer 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 36326077 ↗
  • Smith 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 18696313 ↗
  • Spreitzer, 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.
  • Tedeschi RG, Calhoun LG. The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory: measuring the positive legacy of trauma. J Trauma Stress. 1996 Jul;9(3):455-71. doi: 10.1007/BF02103658. PubMed 8827649 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
Primary completion
Feb 28, 2026→Feb 2, 2026 (actual)
Oct 13, 2026
Study completion
Feb 28, 2026→Nov 1, 2026
Oct 13, 2026
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  1. Oct 13, 2026
    Primary completion Feb 28, 2026→Feb 2, 2026 (now actual)
    Study completion Feb 28, 2026→Nov 1, 2026
    + 2 other changes: verification date and oversight details

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT06822777
Lead sponsor
AdventHealth
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 12, 2025
Start date
Mar 1, 2025
Primary completion
Feb 2, 2026
Completion
Nov 1, 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 13, 2026

Study contacts

Amanda T Sawyer, PhD
principal investigator · AdventHealth

Oversight

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