Can a personal guide boost wellness for care home workers?
NCT ID NCT05677997
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested whether one-on-one support from a resource navigator helps long-term care and retirement home staff access health and wellness resources. 123 staff members took part, with some getting a navigator and others not. Researchers measured changes in wellness, burnout, and COVID-19 outcomes over 6 months.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- resource navigator sessions
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could point toward a simple way to improve staff wellness and reduce burnout in long-term care homes.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, completed study with 123 participants, so results may not apply to all settings. The intervention is behavioral, not a drug, so effects may be modest.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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123 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Mar 2023
- Finished
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Dec 2024
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. A fulltime or part-time employee aged 18 years and older identified as a Long-Term Care and Retirement Home staff (PSW's and other support service staff in those in nutrition, housekeeping and laundry) 2. Work in an Ontario Long-term care or retirement home; 3. Comfortable speaking and reading English; and 4. Access to and willingness to use email for study communications Exclusion Criteria: 1. Do not identify as or are not employed as a PSW and other support service staff; 2. Do not work in an Ontario long-term care or retirement home; 3. Uncomfortable speaking or reading English; and 4. Do not have access to or unwillingness to use email for study communications
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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St. Michaels Hospital,
Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1W8, Canada
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