BurnoutNCT07298018
A Pilot Study of RISE for Nurse Managers Retreat
A study testing Intervention Group in people with Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress, run by AdventHealth at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility and acceptability of the RISE for Nurse Managers retreat and its impact on occupational and psychological well-being indicators Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Perceived Stress
- What is being tested?
- Intervention Group
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 16 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- 29 Jan 2026to 16 Dec 2026
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- an employed AdventHealth Nurse Manager
- a "moderate" or "high" score in burnout equal to ≥17 in the Emotional Exhaustion Domain and/or ≥7 in the Depersonalization Domain on the MBI
Who cannot join
- a direct care RN, Nurse Director, Educator, and Executive
- a "low" score in burnout equal to <17 in the Emotional Exhaustion domain and/or <7 in the Depersonalization domain on the MBI
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility and acceptability of the RISE for Nurse Managers retreat and its impact on occupational and psychological well-being indicators
Read the detailed description
The RISE program is an empirically supported wellbeing intervention for nurses and nurse leaders delivered over 8 or 9 weeks in 90-minute weekly sessions facilitated by a licensed mental health professional. The program themes are Resilience, Insight, Self-Compassion, and Empowerment. This study will be to examine the feasibility and acceptability of delivering the program in a retreat style format over 2.5 days.
- Conditions
- Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Perceived Stress
- Being tested
- Intervention Group
- Medical subject headings
- Burnout, Psychological, Compassion Fatigue
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Intervention GroupBehavioural
Psychoeducational group program designed to impact occupational and psychological indicators including resilience, insight, self-compassion, empowerment, burnout and secondary trauma
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Participant group | Experimental | Intervention group will attend the RISE Retreat program, which is a 2.5-day retreat-style psychoeducational group program facilitated by licensed mental health professionals (LMHPs) Receives: Behavioral: Intervention Group |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Maslach Burnout Inventory - Human Services Survey
22-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 0=never, 1=a few times a year or less, 2=once a month or less, 3=a few times a month, 4=once a week, 5=a few times a week, 6=every day. MBI includes 3 dimensions of Burnout: Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, and Personal Accomplishment. There are 9 items included in Emotional Exhaustion and scores can range from 0-54. There are 5 items included in Depersonalization and scores can range from 0-30. There are 8 items included in Personal Accomplishment and scores can range from 0-48. Higher scores on Emotional Exhaustion and Depersonalization and lower scores on Personal Accomplishment are indicative of Burnout
Measured: Baseline, 1-month follow-up, 3-month follow-up, 6-month follow-up
Secondary outcomes (11)
Professional Quality of Life Scale
30-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=never, 2=rarely, 3=sometimes, 4=often, 5=very often. PROQOL includes 3 dimensions: Compassion Satisfaction, Burnout, and Secondary Traumatic Stress. Each subscale includes 10 items and scores can range from 10-50. For Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress, lower scores are better. Sums of 10-22 = low level, 23-41 = average level, and 42-50=high level of Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress. For Compassion Satisfaction, higher scores are better. Sum of 10-22=low level, 23-41=average level, and 42-50=high level of Compassion Satisfaction.
Measured: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Brief Resilience Scale
6-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=strongly agree, 2=disagree, 3=neutral, 4=agree, 5=strongly agree. Sum of items can range from 6-30, which is then divided by 6 to get an average score. Higher score is better, with 1-2.99 = low resilience, 3-4.3 = normal resilience, and 4.31-5.0 = high resilience.
Measured: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Self-Reflection and Insight Scale
20-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=strongly disagree, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6=strongly agree. Six items are included in Self-Reflection and scores can range from 6-42, with higher scores indicating a greater self-reflection. Six items are included in Insight, and scores can also range from 6-42 with higher scores indicating more Insight.
Measured: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Self-Compassion Scale Short Form
12-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=almost never, 2, 3, 4, 5=almost always. Scores are added and then averaged. While the average score is to be used comparatively, score 1.0-2.49 is considered low, 2.5-3.5 is considered moderate, and 3.51-5.0 is considered high.
Measured: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
General Self-Efficacy Scale
10-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 1=not at all true, 2=barely true, 3=moderately true, 4=exactly true. Item scores are added together and then averaged with higher scores indicating more self-efficacy.
Measured: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Perceived Stress Scale
10-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 0=never, 1=almost never, 2=sometimes, 3=fairly often, 4=very often. The total score ranges from 0 to 40 with higher scores indicating greater perceived stress.
Measured: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Generalized Anxiety Disorder - 2 item scale
2-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 0=not at all, 1=several days, 2=more than half the days, 3=nearly every day. Total score range is 0 to 6 and a score of 3 or higher suggests possible anxiety.
Measured: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Patient Health Questionnaire - 2 item
2-item scale with the following response categories: 0=not at all, 1=several days, 2=more than half the days, 3=nearly every day. Total score range is from 0 to 6, and a score of 3 or more indicates possible depressed mood.
Measured: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory
21-item scale scored using six-point responses: zero ("I did not experience this change as a result of my crisis") to five ("I experienced this change to a very great degree as a result of my crisis"). Total score range is 0 to 105, which higher scores indicating more post traumatic growth.
Measured: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Psychological Empowerment Instrument
12-item measure that assesses empowerment in the workplace using a 7-point Likert response scale. Four aspects are measured: meaning, competence, self-determination, and impact. Total score range from 12 to 84, with higher scores indicating greater psychological empowerment.
Measured: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Employment Status
Human Resources Data
Measured: 12-month post-program
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted22 Dec 2025
- Study start29 Jan 2026
- Primary completion31 Oct 2026 (estimated)
- Study completion16 Dec 2026 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (14)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for BurnoutStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Model description
- Single group assignment
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 16 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- AdventHealth
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Amanda T. Sawyer, PhD, Principal investigator, AdventHealth
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07298018
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 2365808
- Status last verified
- Oct 2026
- First submitted
- 11 Dec 2025
- Last updated
- 15 Oct 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Publications
Bailey AK, Sawyer AT, Robinson PS. A Psychoeducational Group Intervention for Nurses: Rationale, Theoretical Framework, and Development. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2023 May-Jun;29(3):232-240. doi: 10.1177/10783903211001116. Epub 2021 Jun 22.
PubMed 34154451Cohen S, Kamarck T, Mermelstein R. A global measure of perceived stress. J Health Soc Behav. 1983 Dec;24(4):385-96. No abstract available.
PubMed 6668417Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB, Monahan PO, Lowe B. Anxiety disorders in primary care: prevalence, impairment, comorbidity, and detection. Ann Intern Med. 2007 Mar 6;146(5):317-25. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-146-5-200703060-00004.
PubMed 17339617Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB. The Patient Health Questionnaire-2: validity of a two-item depression screener. Med Care. 2003 Nov;41(11):1284-92. doi: 10.1097/01.MLR.0000093487.78664.3C.
PubMed 14583691Litz BT, Plouffe RA, Nazarov A, Murphy D, Phelps A, Coady A, Houle SA, Dell L, Frankfurt S, Zerach G, Levi-Belz Y; Moral Injury Outcome Scale Consortium. Defining and Assessing the Syndrome of Moral Injury: Initial Findings of the Moral Injury Outcome Scale Consortium. Front Psychiatry. 2022 Jul 5;13:923928. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.923928. eCollection 2022.
PubMed 35873252Maslach C, Jackson SE, Leiter MP. Maslach Burnout Inventory manual, 3rd ed. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press, 1996.
Raes F, Pommier E, Neff KD, Van Gucht D. Construction and factorial validation of a short form of the Self-Compassion Scale. Clin Psychol Psychother. 2011 May-Jun;18(3):250-5. doi: 10.1002/cpp.702. Epub 2010 Jun 8.
PubMed 21584907Sawyer AT, Bailey AK, Green JF, Sun J, Robinson PS. Resilience, Insight, Self-Compassion, and Empowerment (RISE): A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Psychoeducational Group Program for Nurses. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2023 Jul-Aug;29(4):314-327. doi: 10.1177/10783903211033338. Epub 2021 Jul 23.
PubMed 34293934Sawyer AT, Tao H, Bailey AK. The Impact of a Psychoeducational Group Program on the Mental Well-Being of Unit-Based Nurse Leaders: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jun 2;20(11):6035. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20116035.
PubMed 37297639Schwarzer, R., & Jerusalem, M. (1995). Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale. J. Weinman, S. Wright, & M. Johnston, Measures in health psychology: A user's portfolio. Causal and control beliefs, 35, 37.
Smith BW, Dalen J, Wiggins K, Tooley E, Christopher P, Bernard J. The brief resilience scale: assessing the ability to bounce back. Int J Behav Med. 2008;15(3):194-200. doi: 10.1080/10705500802222972.
PubMed 18696313Spreitzer GM. Psychological empowerment in the workplace: Dimensions, measurement, and validation. Academy of Management Journal. 1995; 38(5):1442-1465.
Stamm, B. H. (2010). Professional Quality of Life: Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue Version 5 (ProQOL). http://www.proqol.org.
Tedeschi RG, Calhoun LG. The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory: measuring the positive legacy of trauma. J Trauma Stress. 1996 Jul;9(3):455-71. doi: 10.1007/BF02103658.
PubMed 8827649
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 15 Oct 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- A Pilot Study of RISE for Nurse Managers Retreat
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07298018
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 2365808
- Conditions
- Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Perceived Stress
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Active, not recruiting
- Enrolment
- 16 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- AdventHealthUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 29 Jan 2026 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 31 Oct 2026 (estimated)
- Study completion
- 16 Dec 2026 (estimated)
- First posted
- 22 Dec 2025 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility and acceptability of the RISE for Nurse Managers retreat and its impact on occupational and psychological well-being indicators
Detailed description
The RISE program is an empirically supported wellbeing intervention for nurses and nurse leaders delivered over 8 or 9 weeks in 90-minute weekly sessions facilitated by a licensed mental health professional. The program themes are Resilience, Insight, Self-Compassion, and Empowerment. This study will be to examine the feasibility and acceptability of delivering the program in a retreat style format over 2.5 days.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 1
- Model description
- Single group assignment
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Participant group | Experimental | Behavioral: Intervention GroupIntervention group will attend the RISE Retreat program, which is a 2.5-day retreat-style psychoeducational group program facilitated by licensed mental health professionals (LMHPs) |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (2 listed)
- an employed AdventHealth Nurse Manager
- a "moderate" or "high" score in burnout equal to ≥17 in the Emotional Exhaustion Domain and/or ≥7 in the Depersonalization Domain on the MBI
Key exclusion criteria (2 listed)
- a direct care RN, Nurse Director, Educator, and Executive
- a "low" score in burnout equal to <17 in the Emotional Exhaustion domain and/or <7 in the Depersonalization domain on the MBI
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Intervention GroupPsychoeducational group program designed to impact occupational and psychological indicators including resilience, insight, self-compassion, empowerment, burnout and secondary trauma | Behavioural | Participant group |
Primary outcome
Maslach Burnout Inventory - Human Services Survey
Time frame: Baseline, 1-month follow-up, 3-month follow-up, 6-month follow-up
22-item questionnaire with the following response categories: 0=never, 1=a few times a year or less, 2=once a month or less, 3=a few times a month, 4=once a week, 5=a few times a week, 6=every day. MBI includes 3 dimensions of Burnout: Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, and Personal Accomplishment. There are 9 items included in Emotional Exhaustion and scores can range from 0-54. There are 5 items included in Depersonalization and scores can range from 0-30. There are 8 items included in Personal Accomplishment and scores can range from 0-48. Higher scores on Emotional Exhaustion and Depersonalization and lower scores on Personal Accomplishment are indicative of Burnout
11 secondary outcomes
Professional Quality of Life Scale
Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Brief Resilience Scale
Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Self-Reflection and Insight Scale
Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Self-Compassion Scale Short Form
Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
General Self-Efficacy Scale
Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Perceived Stress Scale
Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Generalized Anxiety Disorder - 2 item scale
Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Patient Health Questionnaire - 2 item
Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory
Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Psychological Empowerment Instrument
Time frame: Baseline, 1- and 3-and 6-month follow-up
Employment Status
Time frame: 12-month post-program
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 15 Oct 2026.
- Background: PubMed 34154451Bailey AK, Sawyer AT, Robinson PS. A Psychoeducational Group Intervention for Nurses: Rationale, Theoretical Framework, and Development. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2023 May-Jun;29(3):232-240. doi: 10.1177/10783903211001116. Epub 2021 Jun 22.
- Background: PubMed 6668417Cohen S, Kamarck T, Mermelstein R. A global measure of perceived stress. J Health Soc Behav. 1983 Dec;24(4):385-96. No abstract available.
- Background: PubMed 17339617Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB, Monahan PO, Lowe B. Anxiety disorders in primary care: prevalence, impairment, comorbidity, and detection. Ann Intern Med. 2007 Mar 6;146(5):317-25. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-146-5-200703060-00004.
- Background: PubMed 14583691Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB. The Patient Health Questionnaire-2: validity of a two-item depression screener. Med Care. 2003 Nov;41(11):1284-92. doi: 10.1097/01.MLR.0000093487.78664.3C.
- Background: PubMed 35873252Litz BT, Plouffe RA, Nazarov A, Murphy D, Phelps A, Coady A, Houle SA, Dell L, Frankfurt S, Zerach G, Levi-Belz Y; Moral Injury Outcome Scale Consortium. Defining and Assessing the Syndrome of Moral Injury: Initial Findings of the Moral Injury Outcome Scale Consortium. Front Psychiatry. 2022 Jul 5;13:923928. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.923928. eCollection 2022.
- BackgroundMaslach C, Jackson SE, Leiter MP. Maslach Burnout Inventory manual, 3rd ed. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press, 1996.
- Background: PubMed 21584907Raes F, Pommier E, Neff KD, Van Gucht D. Construction and factorial validation of a short form of the Self-Compassion Scale. Clin Psychol Psychother. 2011 May-Jun;18(3):250-5. doi: 10.1002/cpp.702. Epub 2010 Jun 8.
- Background: PubMed 34293934Sawyer AT, Bailey AK, Green JF, Sun J, Robinson PS. Resilience, Insight, Self-Compassion, and Empowerment (RISE): A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Psychoeducational Group Program for Nurses. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2023 Jul-Aug;29(4):314-327. doi: 10.1177/10783903211033338. Epub 2021 Jul 23.
- Background: PubMed 37297639Sawyer AT, Tao H, Bailey AK. The Impact of a Psychoeducational Group Program on the Mental Well-Being of Unit-Based Nurse Leaders: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jun 2;20(11):6035. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20116035.
- BackgroundSchwarzer, R., & Jerusalem, M. (1995). Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale. J. Weinman, S. Wright, & M. Johnston, Measures in health psychology: A user's portfolio. Causal and control beliefs, 35, 37.
- Background: PubMed 18696313Smith BW, Dalen J, Wiggins K, Tooley E, Christopher P, Bernard J. The brief resilience scale: assessing the ability to bounce back. Int J Behav Med. 2008;15(3):194-200. doi: 10.1080/10705500802222972.
- BackgroundSpreitzer GM. Psychological empowerment in the workplace: Dimensions, measurement, and validation. Academy of Management Journal. 1995; 38(5):1442-1465.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Amanda T. Sawyer, PhD principal investigator
AdventHealth
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Intervention Group in people with Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress, run by AdventHealth at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 2 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: under way, not looking for participants, as of the sponsor's last update on 15 Oct 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Maslach Burnout Inventory - Human Services Survey (time frame: Baseline, 1-month follow-up, 3-month follow-up, 6-month follow-up). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT07298018, which also lists 14 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 15 Oct 2026.