SEEK Study - Study on Emergency Health Care Workers' Job Strain Evaluated by Karasek Questionnaire

NCT02401607 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: CHU-0228
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 100
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Emergency health care workers are exposed to job strain - defined by Karasek as a combination of high job demands and low job control. Emergency health care work is a complex interaction between stress due to life-threatening emergencies, overcrowding of the Emergency Department, the lack of sleep, bad food repartition during shifts, and accumulated fatigue. However, the Karasek questionnaire has never been assessed for Emergency Health Care workers. Furthermore, the variation of results during the career has never been assessed. The same measures will be repeated every 5 year to assess long term changes in subjective and objective measures of stress. The study's main objective is the creation of an Emergency Health Care worker's cohort to assess the evolution of the Karasek questionnaire during the follow-up. Secondary objectives are

• the evaluation of the food intake before, during and after a nightshift.
• the evaluation of other questionnaires

Conditions

Health Care Workers

Keywords

emergency Medecine; biomarkers of stress; Food intake

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Karasek questionnaire

  Karasek questionnaire is a self-reported psychological questionnaire. It defines job demands and job control as the two broad work-related characteristics present in the environment of most occupations that can be incredibly stressful. Workers can perceive both job demand and job control as being low or high. The combination of high job demands and low job control results in "Job Strain"

  at day 1

• Karasek questionnaire

  Karasek questionnaire is a self-reported psychological questionnaire. It defines job demands and job control as the two broad work-related characteristics present in the environment of most occupations that can be incredibly stressful. Workers can perceive both job demand and job control as being low or high. The combination of high job demands and low job control results in "Job Strain"

  at 5 years

• Karasek questionnaire

  Karasek questionnaire is a self-reported psychological questionnaire. It defines job demands and job control as the two broad work-related characteristics present in the environment of most occupations that can be incredibly stressful. Workers can perceive both job demand and job control as being low or high. The combination of high job demands and low job control results in "Job Strain"

  at 10 years

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Hamilton anxiety scale

  at day 1, at 5 years, 10 years

• Maslach Burn-out Inventory

  at day 1, at 5 years, 10 years

• Hospital anxiety and depression scale

  at day 1, at 5 years, 10 years

• Assessment of the food intake

  at day 1

• Assessment of the salivary DHEA levels

  at day 1

Interventions

Karasek questionnaire and Saliva prelevement OTHER

Karasek questionniare and Saliva collection will be assessed on any health care worker working in any emergency department in France at day 1 and at 5 years

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 70 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

health care workers

You may qualify if:

• Any health care workers from any emergency department of France

You may not qualify if:

• Pregnancy
• Refusal

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand: lead
• Association des Médecins des Urgences de Clermont-Ferrand: collaborator
• Université d'Auvergne: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

CHU Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand, 63003, France

RECRUITING

Related Publications (1)

• Bouillon-Minois JB, Trousselard M, Pereira B, Schmidt J, Clinchamps M, Thivel D, Ugbolue UC, Moustafa F, Occelli C, Vallet G, Dutheil F. Protocol of the Study on Emergency Health Care Workers' Responses Evaluated by Karasek Questionnaire: The SEEK-Study Protocol. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 12;18(8):4068. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18084068.

  PMID: 33921527 DERIVED

Biospecimen

Retention: SAMPLES WITHOUT DNA

Saliva

Study Officials

• Frederic DUTHEIL

  University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Lise Laclautre

CONTACT

04 73 75 11 95; promo_interne_drci@chu-clermontferrand.fr

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: OTHER
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 16, 2015
• First Posted: March 30, 2015
• Study Start: January 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2025
• Study Completion: May 1, 2025
• Last Updated: February 24, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-02

Locations

FR (1)