Stress training improved one burnout dimension among intensive-care nurses
Compared with a waitlist, resilience training improved nurses' sense of personal accomplishment. Its effect on emotional exhaustion was not statistically significant, so the burnout findings were mixed.
Based on the published abstract. The full paper may contain additional methods, results and limitations.
The 30-second takeaway
Among intensive-care nurses, resilience training improved personal accomplishment, a sense of achievement at work, compared with waiting for the programme. That improvement appeared immediately after training and at follow-up. Emotional exhaustion, meaning feeling emotionally drained, did not show a statistically significant treatment effect. The result supports a narrower conclusion than improvement across burnout as a whole.
The analysis included fewer nurses than enrolled and described intervention participants who completed all sessions. Effect sizes were not reported, and follow-up was brief, limiting assessment of magnitude and persistence.
What researchers found
Burnout dimensions
Against the waitlist, accomplishment improved immediately after training and at 1-month follow-up. The exhaustion effect was not statistically significant.
Burnout had different components
The favourable finding concerned personal accomplishment rather than every burnout measure. An unclear effect on emotional exhaustion does not prove that training has no effect on exhaustion; the abstract supplies no estimate of its size.
Other reported changes
Secondary measures included mindfulness, resilience, stress, depression, work abilities, and professional fulfillment. The abstract reports favourable effects at either assessment or both, but does not specify the timing and magnitude for each individual outcome.
The original publication
Efficacy of enhanced stress resilience training for intensive-care unit nurses: a randomized waitlist control trial.
Lee SJ, Cunningham B, Childers M et al.
Appl Nurs Res · 2025
- PubMed ID
- 40473367
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