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Protocol for the National Nurse Health Study (NNHS): a web-based ambispective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The physical and mental health of nurses may significantly impact the entire medical care group and directly affect the quality of medical services. Due to the intense emotional involvement and often problematic working conditions that characterise their profession, nurses appear to be especially susceptible to a complex set of stressors with repercussions to their health. Several landmark studies of nurses have provided an abundance of evidence on risk factors that influence the health status of nurses. However, few studies have investigated the health status of nurses who work in high-intensity work environments in China. The National Nurse Health Study (NNHS) objective is to build an ambispective cohort to gather web-based information on early-life events, daily habits, occupational and environmental risk factors, and health outcomes of a specific subset of healthcare professionals of Chinese nurses.

Methods and analysis

NNHS, which was developed at a tertiary hospital in Beijing, China, is a research initiative that enrolls registered nurses working at Peking University Third Hospital. A web-based self-administered system was designed to collect health-related data and link them with previous physical examination data. During the study period, participants with signed informed consent will be invited to annually repeat a similar procedure.

Ethics and dissemination

The NNHS research protocol was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee and provides promising data that contribute to the understanding of pathophysiological links between early-life events, body composition, gut microbiota, and inflammatory and metabolic risk profiles. Moreover, the combination of a user-friendly tool with the innovative purposes of the NNHS offers a remarkable resource to test hypotheses about mechanisms of diseases, including work stress, and further plan preventive programmes in public health.

Trial registration number

The study was registered on Clinicaltrials.gov (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04572347) and the China Cohort Consortium (http://chinacohort.bjmu.edu.cn/project/102/).

SUBMITTER: Zhuo L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8378396 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Protocol for the National Nurse Health Study (NNHS): a web-based ambispective cohort study.

Zhuo Lin L Zhang Heli H Geng Rongmei R Wang Panfeng P Zeng Lin L Che Ying Y Wang Peng P Li Pengfei P Huang Tao T Li Baohua B Zhan Siyan S

BMJ open 20210819 8

<h4>Introduction</h4>The physical and mental health of nurses may significantly impact the entire medical care group and directly affect the quality of medical services. Due to the intense emotional involvement and often problematic working conditions that characterise their profession, nurses appear to be especially susceptible to a complex set of stressors with repercussions to their health. Several landmark studies of nurses have provided an abundance of evidence on risk factors that influenc ...[more]

PMID: 34413106

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Protocol for the National Nurse Health Study (NNHS): a web-based ambispective cohort study.

Introduction

Methods and analysis

Ethics and dissemination

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