Trial reportPloS one2022
A workplace Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention for improving healthcare staff psychological distress: A randomised controlled trial.
Trial report in PloS one, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05721339 (Impact of Virtual Group-Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Social Adjustment and Work-Family Conflict Among Intern Nurses), which is not on this map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Impact of Virtual Group-Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Social Adjustment and Work-Family Conflict Among Intern Nurses: A Randomized Control Trial
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of Organizational Interventions to Reduce Burnout in the Workplace: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Pooled it
- Acceptance and commitment therapy- based intervention to improve psychological skills and resilience in surgical trainees: a randomised waitlist-controlled trial.BMC surgery · 2025Trial
- AI-Assisted Tailored Intervention for Nurse Burnout: A Three-Group Randomized Controlled Trial.Worldviews on evidence-based nursing · 2025Trial
- The effect of acceptance and commitment therapy on work-related rumination and job fatigue of medical emergency and accident management center staff: an experimental study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Trial
- Impact of virtual group-based acceptance and commitment therapy on social adjustment and work-family conflict among intern nurses: a randomized control trial.BMC psychiatry · 2023Trial
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- Protocol: Psychosocial Interventions Addressing Mental Health Outcomes Among Hospital-Based Healthcare Workers in United States Hospitals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Campbell systematic reviews · 2026Review
- The effectiveness of online acceptance and commitment therapy-based interventions on depression, burnout, anxiety and stress in occupational contexts: A systematic narrative review.Internet interventions · 2026Review
- Between acceptance and change - a qualitative study about how leaders deal with bureaucracy.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Psychological Flexibility and Mental Health: Theoretical Foundations, Empirical Support, and Applications Across Clinical Contexts.Psychology research and behavior management · 2026Review
- Bending or breaking? Examining the relationship between psychological inflexibility, resilience, professional fulfilment and burnout among cancer care professionals in Ireland.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- From Research to Practice: Implementing an Evidence-Based Intervention for Nurse Well-Being in a Healthcare System.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- [Strategy for improving the distress level in healthcare workers].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2025Observational
- Virtual Acceptance and Commitment Training to Promote Wellbeing of Staff Supporting Adults With Intellectual Disabilities: A Feasibility Study.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID · 2025Article
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- Factors Associated with Older People's Anxiety Symptom Positioning after COVID-19: Cross-Sectional Findings from a Canadian Sample.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Association of resilience and psychological flexibility with surgeons' mental wellbeing.BJS open · 2024Article
- Development of an Artificial Intelligence-Based Tailored Mobile Intervention for Nurse Burnout: Single-Arm Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Impact of Burnout on Anaesthesiologists.Turkish journal of anaesthesiology and reanimation · 2024Article
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Abstract
The levels of psychological distress and burnout among healthcare staff are high, with negative implications for patient care. A growing body of evidence indicates that workplace programmes based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) are effective for improving employees' general psychological health. However, there is a paucity of research examining the specific psychological and/or behavioural processes through which workplace ACT programmes transmit their beneficial effects. The aim of this randomised controlled trial was to investigate the outcomes and putative processes of change in a 4-session ACT training programme designed to reduce psychological distress among healthcare staff (n = 98). Ninety-eight employees of a healthcare organisation were randomly allocated to the ACT intervention or to a waiting list control group. Study measures were administered on four occasions (baseline, mid-intervention, post-intervention, and follow-up) over a three-month evaluation period. Results showed that the ACT intervention led to a significant decrease in symptoms of psychological distress and a less pronounced reduction in burnout. These effects were mediated primarily via an improvement in mindfulness skills and values-based behaviour and moderated by participants' initial levels of distress. At four-week post-intervention, 48% of participants who received the ACT intervention showed reliable improvements in psychological distress, with just under half of the aforementioned improvements (46.15%) meeting criteria for clinically significant change. The results advance ACT as an effective stress management intervention for healthcare staff. The findings should be confirmed in a large scale randomised controlled trial with longer follow-up and cost-effectiveness analyses.
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