Therefore the present study was conducted aiming to investigate and compare the effect of a conventional educative class and a self-designed educative class on NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Units) nurses’ mental workload at educational hospitals of Isfahan.
Design
The clinical trial has two groups of control and intervention, with parallel and random groups.
Settings and conduct
This study was a randomized controlled trial administered on 68 nurses. They were divided into two intervention and control groups. Then the intervention was administered through designing a class with the content of reinforcing social awareness as one of the dimensions of emotional intelligence. NASA –TLX (national aeronautics and space administration- Task load Index)’s mental workload questionnaire was applied in order to collect data. The collected data will analyze by SPSS software.
Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
The inclusion criteria: 1. having at least Bachelor of sciences in nursing. 2. Job precedency for at least six months in NICU. 3. Not having suffered from anxiety and depression recently according to self-confirmation and 4. Not using antianxiety and antipsychotic drugs.
Intervention groups
Both groups (nurses of NICU) participate in an educative class according to the routine NICU nurses continues educational schedule that in this research we call it “conventional educative class” entitled “respiration management in neonates”.
The intervention group participate in an additional class designed by the researcher after a week. In holding this class an experienced psychology expert who had the license of emotional intelligence training is employed. The nurses in the intervention group took part in a self-designed educative class entitled “Emotional intelligence with emphasizes on social awareness” for four hours.
Main outcome variables
mental workload
General information
Reason for update
Acronym
IRCT registration information
IRCT registration number:IRCT20180511039604N1
Registration date:2018-05-27, 1397/03/06
Registration timing:retrospective
Last update:2018-05-27, 1397/03/06
Update count:0
Registration date
2018-05-27, 1397/03/06
Registrant information
Name
Akram Aarabi
Name of organization / entity
Country
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Phone
+98 31 3792 7565
Email address
fbf1370@gmail.com
Recruitment status
Recruitment complete
Funding source
Expected recruitment start date
2016-05-21, 1395/03/01
Expected recruitment end date
2016-08-21, 1395/05/31
Actual recruitment start date
empty
Actual recruitment end date
empty
Trial completion date
empty
Scientific title
Reduce mental workload of neonatal intensive care units nurses through a self-designed educative class: A randomized controlled trial.
Public title
Reduce mental workload of neonatal intensive care units nurses through a self-designed educative class: A randomized controlled trial.
Purpose
Education/Guidance
Inclusion/Exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria:
having at least Bachelor of sciences in nursing.
Job precedency for at least six months in NICU.
Not having suffered from anxiety and depression recently according to self confirmation
Not using antianxiety and antipsychotic drugs
Exclusion criteria:
Age
No age limit
Gender
Female
Phase
N/A
Groups that have been masked
Outcome assessor
Data analyser
Data and Safety Monitoring Board
Sample size
Target sample size:
68
Randomization (investigator's opinion)
Randomized
Randomization description
Nurses at first selected by simple sampling method and then randomly allocated in control and intervention groups. For randomization we first labeled every nurse with a number and then we provided separated vote labels for each number and put all the numbers in a vase and randomly select the numbers one by one. If the selected number were even she were put in control and if it was odd she were put in intervention group.
Blinding (investigator's opinion)
Not blinded
Blinding description
Placebo
Not used
Assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Secondary Ids
empty
Ethics committees
1
Ethics committee
Name of ethics committee
Ethics Committee of Isfahan University Of Medical Sciences
Street address
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Hezar-Jerib Ave., Isfahan, IR Iran
City
Isfahan
Province
Isfehan
Postal code
81746-73465
Approval date
2016-05-21, 1395/03/01
Ethics committee reference number
IR.MUI.REC.1395.3161
Health conditions studied
1
Description of health condition studied
mental workload
ICD-10 code
ICD-10 code description
Primary outcomes
1
Description
mental workload
Timepoint
after and before intervention
Method of measurement
NASA –TLX (national aeronautics and space administration- Task load Index)’s mental workload questionnaire
Secondary outcomes
empty
Intervention groups
1
Description
The intervention group: They participated in an additional class designed by the researcher after a week. In holding this class an experienced psychology expert who had the license of emotional intelligence training is employed. Social awareness is selected for training and the nurses in the intervention group took part in a self-designed educative class entitled “Emotional intelligence with emphasizes on social awareness” for four hours. Because we have not been permitted to raise a class with more than 30 person we convene two separate but the same content classes with 17 nurses for intervention group. Content of the self-designed educative class are included the definition of emotional intelligence and its dimensions, strategies for improvement of social awareness such as personality identification and personality categories base on colors (for example orange personality green personality etc.). The self-designed educative class raise a week after the conventional educative class for intervention group.
Category
Behavior
2
Description
Control group: The control group participate in an educative class according to the routine continues educational schedule that in this research we call it “conventional educative class” entitled “respiration management in neonates”.
Category
Behavior
Recruitment centers
1
Recruitment center
Name of recruitment center
Alzahra Hospital of Isfahan
Full name of responsible person
Akram Aarabi
Street address
Soffeh Blvd., Isfahan, Iran
City
Isfahan
Province
Isfehan
Postal code
8174675731
Phone
+98 31 3792 7510
Email
aarabi@nm.mui.ac.ir
2
Recruitment center
Name of recruitment center
Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Isfahan
Full name of responsible person
Akram Aarabi
Street address
shahid motahari St. Isfahan. Iran
City
Isfahan
Province
Isfehan
Postal code
۷۳۴۶۱-۸۱۷۴۶
Phone
+98 31 3792 7510
Email
aarabi@nm.mui.ac.ir
Sponsors / Funding sources
1
Sponsor
Name of organization / entity
Esfahan University of Medical Sciences
Full name of responsible person
Akram Aarabi
Street address
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Hezar-Jerib Ave., Isfahan, IR Iran
City
Isfahan
Province
Isfehan
Postal code
۷۳۴۶۱-۸۱۷۴۶
Phone
+98 31 3792 7510
Email
aarabi@nm.mui.ac.ir
Grant name
Grant code / Reference number
Is the source of funding the same sponsor organization/entity?
Yes
Title of funding source
Esfahan University of Medical Sciences
Proportion provided by this source
100
Public or private sector
Public
Domestic or foreign origin
Domestic
Category of foreign source of funding
empty
Country of origin
Type of organization providing the funding
Academic
Person responsible for general inquiries
Contact
Name of organization / entity
Esfahan University of Medical Sciences
Full name of responsible person
Akram Aarabi
Position
faculty member
Latest degree
Ph.D.
Other areas of specialty/work
Nursery
Street address
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Hezar-Jerib Ave., Isfahan, IR Iran
City
Isfahan
Province
Isfehan
Postal code
81746-73465
Phone
+98 31 3792 7510
Email
aarabi@nm.mui.ac.ir
Person responsible for scientific inquiries
Contact
Name of organization / entity
Esfahan University of Medical Sciences
Full name of responsible person
Akram Aarabi
Position
faculty member
Latest degree
Ph.D.
Other areas of specialty/work
Nursery
Street address
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Hezar-Jerib Ave., Isfahan, IR Iran
City
Isfahan
Province
Isfehan
Postal code
81746-73465
Phone
+98 31 3792 7510
Email
aarabi@nm.mui.ac.ir
Person responsible for updating data
Contact
Name of organization / entity
Esfahan University of Medical Sciences
Full name of responsible person
Akram Aarabi
Position
faculty member
Latest degree
Ph.D.
Other areas of specialty/work
Nursery
Street address
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Hezar-Jerib Ave., Isfahan, IR Iran
City
Isfahan
Province
Isfehan
Postal code
81746-73465
Phone
+98 31 3792 7510
Email
aarabi@nm.mui.ac.ir
Sharing plan
Deidentified Individual Participant Data Set (IPD)
Yes - There is a plan to make this available
Study Protocol
Undecided - It is not yet known if there will be a plan to make this available
Statistical Analysis Plan
Not applicable
Informed Consent Form
No - There is not a plan to make this available
Clinical Study Report
Undecided - It is not yet known if there will be a plan to make this available
Analytic Code
Not applicable
Data Dictionary
Not applicable
Title and more details about the data/document
The total potential data can be shared after unidentifiable people
When the data will become available and for how long
The start of the access period is 6 months after the results are published.
To whom data/document is available
The data from this study will be available to researchers working in academic, scientific and clinical settings.
Under which criteria data/document could be used
All people in the science centers are allowed to request access to the data.
From where data/document is obtainable
Refer to the scientific officer for this study.
What processes are involved for a request to access data/document
Through correspondence with the academic studying officer.