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Ecological momentary intervention to enhance emotion regulation in healthcare workers via smartphone: a randomized controlled trial protocol

BACKGROUND: CUIDA-TE is an APP that offers transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy focused on enhancing emotion regulation. As a novelty, it incorporates ecological momentary interventions (EMI), which can provide psychological support in real time, when suffering arises. The main goal of the s...

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Autores principales: Castilla, Diana, Navarro-Haro, María Vicenta, Suso-Ribera, Carlos, Díaz-García, Amanda, Zaragoza, Irene, García-Palacios, Azucena
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8897724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35248015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03800-x
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author Castilla, Diana
Navarro-Haro, María Vicenta
Suso-Ribera, Carlos
Díaz-García, Amanda
Zaragoza, Irene
García-Palacios, Azucena
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Navarro-Haro, María Vicenta
Suso-Ribera, Carlos
Díaz-García, Amanda
Zaragoza, Irene
García-Palacios, Azucena
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description BACKGROUND: CUIDA-TE is an APP that offers transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy focused on enhancing emotion regulation. As a novelty, it incorporates ecological momentary interventions (EMI), which can provide psychological support in real time, when suffering arises. The main goal of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of CUIDA-TE to improve emotion regulation in healthcare workers, a population that has been particularly emotionally impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: In this three-arm, randomized controlled trial (RCT) the study sample will be composed of a minimum of 174 healthcare workers. They will be randomly assigned to a 2-month EMI group (CUIDA-TE APP, n ≥ 58), a 2-month ecological momentary assessment (EMA) only group (MONITOR EMOCIONAL APP, n ≥ 58), or a wait-list control group (no daily monitoring nor intervention, n ≥ 58). CUIDA-TE will provide EMI if EMA reveals emotional problems, poor sleep quality/quantity, burnout, stress, or low perceived self-efficacy when regulating emotions. Depression will be the primary outcome. Secondary outcomes will include emotion regulation, quality of life, and resilience. Treatment acceptance and usability will also be measured. Primary and secondary outcomes will be obtained at pre- and post-intervention measurements, and at the 3-month follow-up for all groups. DISCUSSION: To our knowledge, this is the first RCT that evaluates the efficacy of an APP-based EMI to improve emotion regulation skills in healthcare workers. This type of intervention might ultimately help disseminate treatments and reach a larger number of individuals than traditional face-to-face individual therapies. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrial.gov: NCT04958941 Registered 7 Jun 2021. STUDY STATUS: Participant recruitment has not started. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12888-022-03800-x.
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spelling pubmed-88977242022-03-07 Ecological momentary intervention to enhance emotion regulation in healthcare workers via smartphone: a randomized controlled trial protocol Castilla, Diana Navarro-Haro, María Vicenta Suso-Ribera, Carlos Díaz-García, Amanda Zaragoza, Irene García-Palacios, Azucena BMC Psychiatry Study Protocol BACKGROUND: CUIDA-TE is an APP that offers transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy focused on enhancing emotion regulation. As a novelty, it incorporates ecological momentary interventions (EMI), which can provide psychological support in real time, when suffering arises. The main goal of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of CUIDA-TE to improve emotion regulation in healthcare workers, a population that has been particularly emotionally impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: In this three-arm, randomized controlled trial (RCT) the study sample will be composed of a minimum of 174 healthcare workers. They will be randomly assigned to a 2-month EMI group (CUIDA-TE APP, n ≥ 58), a 2-month ecological momentary assessment (EMA) only group (MONITOR EMOCIONAL APP, n ≥ 58), or a wait-list control group (no daily monitoring nor intervention, n ≥ 58). CUIDA-TE will provide EMI if EMA reveals emotional problems, poor sleep quality/quantity, burnout, stress, or low perceived self-efficacy when regulating emotions. Depression will be the primary outcome. Secondary outcomes will include emotion regulation, quality of life, and resilience. Treatment acceptance and usability will also be measured. Primary and secondary outcomes will be obtained at pre- and post-intervention measurements, and at the 3-month follow-up for all groups. DISCUSSION: To our knowledge, this is the first RCT that evaluates the efficacy of an APP-based EMI to improve emotion regulation skills in healthcare workers. This type of intervention might ultimately help disseminate treatments and reach a larger number of individuals than traditional face-to-face individual therapies. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrial.gov: NCT04958941 Registered 7 Jun 2021. STUDY STATUS: Participant recruitment has not started. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12888-022-03800-x. BioMed Central 2022-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8897724/ /pubmed/35248015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03800-x Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Zaragoza, Irene
García-Palacios, Azucena
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title_short Ecological momentary intervention to enhance emotion regulation in healthcare workers via smartphone: a randomized controlled trial protocol
title_sort ecological momentary intervention to enhance emotion regulation in healthcare workers via smartphone: a randomized controlled trial protocol
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8897724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35248015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03800-x
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