FOREST Program for Preventing Burnout in UCAN Staff
This study is testing a program called FOREST, which stands for Fostering Optimal Regulation of Emotion for Prevention of Secondary Trauma. FOREST is a behavioral program designed to help frontline violence prevention workers at UCAN improve their mental health and coping skills. It teaches positive emotion skills over nine months through existing meetings, wellness activities, and online modules. The study aims to see if FOREST can decrease burnout, depression, and anxiety, and increase positive emotions. To join, you must be 18 or older, currently work at UCAN, have internet access, and speak/read English. The current recruitment status is unclear.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study planning to enroll 100 participants. All frontline UCAN staff will receive the FOREST program.
- What's involved
- You would participate in monthly skill sessions for nine months, which occur during existing wellness meetings/activities. You would also have access to monthly online modules.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your burnout, positive affect, and depression will be measured at 12 months after starting the program.
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Fostering Optimal Regulation of Emotion for Prevention of Secondary Trauma (FOREST)
At a glance
Conditions
NCT05942469
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinoisno site contact published
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Study leadership
- Judith Moskowitz, PhD, MPH · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Northwestern University
Who to contact
This trial hasn't published a contact. View it on ClinicalTrials.gov
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What this trial measures
- Decrease in burnout measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI).12 months
The MBI evaluates burnout severity based on three aspects: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and lack of personal accomplishment, with higher scores on the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization subscales, and lower scores on the personal accomplishments subscale, indicating increased levels of burnout. Responses on the scale range from "never" to "every day."
- Increase in positive affect measured by PROMIS Short Form v1.0- Positive Affect 15a.12 months
PROMIS Positive Affect assesses momentary positive or rewarding affective experiences, such as feelings and mood associated with pleasure, joy, elation, contentment, pride, affection, happiness, engagement, and excitement. Responses options range from "Not at all" to "Very much" with higher scores indicate higher levels of positive affect.
- Decrease in depression measured by PROMIS Short Form v1.0- Depression 4a.12 months
PROMIS Depression Bank assesses self-reported negative mood (sadness, guilt), views of self (self-criticism, worthlessness), and social cognition (loneliness, interpersonal alienation), as well as decreased positive affect and engagement (loss of interest, meaning, and purpose). Response options range from "Never" to "Always" with higher scores indicate higher levels of depression.
- Decrease in anxiety measured by PROMIS Short Form v1.0- Anxiety 4a.12 months
PROMIS Anxiety Bank assesses self-reported fear (fearfulness, panic), anxious misery (worry, dread), hyperarousal (tension, nervousness, restlessness), and somatic symptoms related to arousal (racing heart, dizziness). Response options range from "Never" to "Always" with higher scores indicate higher levels of anxiety.
- Measure of trauma exposure using the Lifetime Events Checklist (LEC).12 months
The LEC measures trauma exposure, including the ability to differentiate direct experience vs work-related or other secondary exposure through a series of questions about stressful events, with responses including "happened to me," "witnessed it," "learned about it," "not sure," and "doesn't apply," followed up by a question asking if the experience happened as part of one's job. There is no formal scoring protocol or interpretation per se, other than identifying whether a person has experienced one or more of the events listed.
- Measure of PTSD symptoms using the the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5).12 months
The PCL-5 is a 20-item self-report measure that assesses the 20 DSM-5 symptoms of PTSD. Responses range from "not at all" to "extremely," with higher scores indicating higher occurrence of PTSD symptoms.
- Increase in meaning and purpose measured by PROMIS Short Form v1.0- Meaning and Purpose 4a.12 months
PROMIS Meaning and Purpose Bank assesses one's sense of life having purpose and that there are good reasons for living. Higher scores indicate hopefulness, optimism, goal-directedness, and feelings that one's life is worthy.
- Improvement in professional quality of life/well-being measured by Eudaimonic Workplace Well-being Scale (EWWS).12 months
EWWS measures workplace well-being on both interpersonal and intrapersonal dimensions through a series of eight statements where respondents indicate how strongly they relate to those statements. Values range from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree," with higher scores reflecting higher workplace well-being/quality of life.