Occupational Burnout

This randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a mobile- and virtual reality-based mindfulness and breathing intervention on stress, burnout, sleep quality, and cognitive function among Rotating-shift nurses. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of four groups: (1) health education control group, (2) mobile-based mindfulness only, (3) mobile-based mindfulness combined with brief structured breathing, and (4) virtual reality-assisted mindfulness combined with brief structured breathing. The intervention will last for 8 weeks, with participants practicing 5 times per week for 10 minutes per session. Primary outcomes include perceived stress, burnout levels, sleep quality, and cognitive function.

This interventional clinical study aims to evaluate whether a structured emotional awareness and communication training program can reduce occupational burnout among oncology nurses. The study will address the following primary questions: Does the intervention lead to a significant increase in nurses' emotional awareness? Does it improve their communication skills in challenging patient and family interactions? Does it reduce their levels of professional burnout? Participants will be recruited from oncology nurses working at Ankara Etlik City Hospital who have been employed in the unit for at least six months and consent to participate. A total of 64 nurses will be randomly assigned to an intervention group (n=32), receiving four weekly face-to-face training sessions over four weeks, or a control group (n=32), receiving educational materials in written/digital format. Data will be collected using pre- and post-intervention assessments with the Maslach Burnout Inventory, the Emotional Requirements Scale, and the Communication Skills Scale for Healthcare Professionals. All data will be anonymized and analyzed to determine the effectiveness of the intervention in enhancing emotional awareness and communication skills and in reducing burnout among oncology nurses.

Occupational burnout (burnout) was proposed by American psychologist Herbert Freudenberger in 1974, who it as a syndrome caused by prolonged exposure to workplace stress that is not successfully managed. Subsequently, Maslach et al. believed that occupational burnout refers an excessive physical and mental consumption state of individuals under prolonged work pressure, including emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and low personal accomplishment. In January 222, the WHO's "International Classification of Diseases, 11th Edition" included "occupational burnout" for the first time, officially recognizing as a disease, considering occupational burnout to be a syndrome caused by prolonged work pressure that is not effectively managed. Compared with other professions, doctors and nurses are higher risk of occupational burnout. Occupational burnout is closely related to the work quality of medical staff, doctor-patient relationship, and mental and physical health. 2022, 47% of 13,000 doctors in the United States experienced occupational burnout. Whether occupational burnout mental and physical health, thereby affecting the quality of medical care, deserves further study. This study plans to use a questionnaire survey method to analyze the status of occupationalout, emotional state, and sleep among nurses in endoscopy centers in mainland China, providing reference for medical staff to take measures to cope with occupational burnout improve mental and physical health, and the quality of medical care.