Eastern Principles Acceptance and Commitment Therapy For Injury Prevention Among Nurses and Nursing Aides

The EPACT intervention will be group-based with 5-10 participants per group. The group-based format has been shown to be an effective delivery method for NNAs (O'Brien, et al., 2019b). The EPACT protocol is comprised of two 2.5-hour sessions spaced one week apart.

The ACT for NNA intervention has been previously tested for NNAs. It contains only the six core processes identified above and omits the added EPACT components of acceptance of suffering, common humanity, impermanence, self- and other-compassion, and non-self-attachment. It will be delivered in a similar group-based format of 5-10 participants in two 2.5 -hour sessions.