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ArticleBMJ open2022

A workplace organisational intervention to improve hospital nurses' and physicians' mental health: study protocol for the Magnet4Europe wait list cluster randomised controlled trial.

Walter Sermeus, Linda H Aiken, Jane Ball, Jackie Bridges, Luk Bruyneel, Reinhard Busse, Hans De Witte, Simon Dello, Jonathan Drennan, Lars E Eriksson and 13 more

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Article in BMJ open, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

23 authors.

Walter SermeusDepartment of Public Health and Primary Care, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium walter.sermeus@kuleuven.be.ORCID 0000-0002-5915-1845
Linda H AikenCenter for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jane BallFaculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, UK.
Jackie BridgesFaculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6776-736X
Luk BruyneelDepartment of Public Health and Primary Care, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium.
Reinhard BusseDepartment of Healthcare Management, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Hans De WitteOccupational & Organisational Psychology and Professional Learning, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium.
Simon DelloDepartment of Public Health and Primary Care, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-6043-1206
Jonathan DrennanSchool of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Lars E ErikssonDepartment of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-5121-5325
Peter GriffithsFaculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2439-2857
Dorothea KohnenOccupational & Organisational Psychology and Professional Learning, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-7220-1819
Julia KöppenDepartment of Healthcare Management, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Rikard LindqvistDepartment of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Claudia Bettina MaierDepartment of Healthcare Management, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Matthew D McHughCenter for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1263-0697
Martin McKeeDepartment of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0121-9683
Anne Marie RaffertyFlorence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, King's College London, London, UK.
Wilmar B SchaufeliOccupational & Organisational Psychology and Professional Learning, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium.
Douglas M SloaneCenter for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Lisa Smeds AleniusDepartment of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Herbert SmithCenter for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Magnet4Europe consortium

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe increasing burden of mental distress reported by healthcare professionals is a matter of serious concern and there is a growing recognition of the role of the workplace in creating this problem. Magnet hospitals, a model shown to attract and retain staff in US research, creates positive work environments that aim to support the well-being of healthcare professionals. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Magnet4Europe is a cluster randomised controlled trial, with wait list controls, designed to evaluate the effects of organisational redesign, based on the Magnet model, on nurses' and physicians' well-being in general acute care hospitals, using a multicomponent implementation strategy. The study will be conducted in more than 60 general acute care hospitals in Belgium, England, Germany, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. The primary outcome is burnout among nurses and physicians, assessed in longitudinal surveys of nurses and physicians at participating hospitals. Additional data will be collected from them on perceived work environments, patient safety and patient quality of care and will be triangulated with data from medical records, including case mix-adjusted in-hospital mortality. The process of implementation will be evaluated using qualitative data from focus group and key informant interviews. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee Research UZ/KU Leuven, Belgium; additionally, ethics approval is obtained in all other participating countries either through a central or decentral authority. Findings will be disseminated at conferences, through peer-reviewed manuscripts and via social media. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ISRCTN10196901.

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NursesPhysiciansHospitalsHumansMental HealthRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicWorkplacehealth policyhuman resource managementmental healthorganisation of health servicesprotocols & guidelines

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