Clinical Trial: The Effectiveness of Guided Imagery for a Nonprofit's Employees

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: A Randomized Controlled Trial Measuring the Effectiveness of Prerecorded Guided Imagery in Reducing Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, Perceived Stress, and State Anxiety of a M

Brief Summary:

Primary Aim A. To determine if listening to prerecorded guided imagery 3 times per week for 4 weeks will reduce state anxiety, perceived stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma in Fronltine Service staff.

Primary Aim B. To determine if staff will continue to listen to guided imagery after the first 4 weeks of the study is over.

Detailed Summary:

The purpose of this study is to compare the change in stress levels of employees who listen to prerecorded guided imagery to employees who take breaks, and to determine if employees are likely to adopt prerecorded guided imagery as a self-care tool.

Participants will be randomly assigned to either the guided imagery group or the control group. Members of the control group will be asked to take a 10 minute break 3 times per week for 4 weeks. Members of the guided imagery group will be asked to listen to one prerecorded guided imagery track 3 times per week for 4 weeks. All participants will fill out questionnaires before and after the 4 week period. All participants will fill out a short form before and after listening to each guided imagery, or before and after taking each break.

Phase 2: After phase 1 is complete, all participants will have the option to participate in phase 2 of the study. During phase 2, participants will receive a calendar and put a mark on every day that they listen to a guided imagery track. At the end of 4 weeks, participants will turn in the calendar.

Sponsor: FrontLine Service

Current Primary Outcome: State Anxiety as Measured by the State Anxiety Short Form [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]

Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

• Compassion Fatigue, Compassion Satisfaction, and Burnout, as measured by the ProQol [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]
  Participants in both the control and experimental groups will complete the ProQol, a 30-item questionnaire, before and after the 4-week intervention period.
• Perceived Stress as measured by the Perceived Stress Scale [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]
  Participants in the experimental and control groups will complete the Perceived Stress Scale, a self-report, 10-item questionnaire, before and after the 4-week intervention period.

Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current

Information By: FrontLine Service

Dates:
Date Received: July 14, 2014
Date Started: July 2014
Date Completion:
Last Updated: February 18, 2017
Last Verified: February 2017