Anxiety and Work Resilience Among Tertiary University Hospital Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Online Survey

NCT04358640 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: LOCAL COVID 2019/JYL-01)
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 1,784
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

For limiting COVID-19 spreading, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended worldwide confinement on 2010. In France, unessential institutions were closed on March 14th and population confinement was decided on March 17th. Quarantine and/or confinement could lead to psychological effects such as confusion, suicide ideation, post-traumatic stress symptoms or anger COVID-19 outbreak highlighted a considerable proportion of health care workers (HCW) with depression, insomnia, anxiety and distress symptoms. In front line, facing the virus with the fear of contracting it and contaminate their closest. During previous outbreaks (H1N1, SARS), HCWs have been shown to experience such negative psychological effects of confinement as well as work avoidance behaviour and physical interaction reduction with infected patients (4-7). In France, Covid 19 outbeak led to increase ICU bed capacity with a full reorganization of the human resources. Some caregivers were reassigned to newly setup units admitting or not Covid-19 patients. In the same time, non-caregivers were also encouraged to work at home whenever possible. Thus, every hospital staff member's private and professional life could be altered by the Covid-19 outbreak. As all these changes in the daily life could induce psychological disturbances, the present study was aimed at assessing the acute anxiety level (main objective) of the staff in our Tertiary University Hospital, (6300 employees). Secondarily, the self-reported insomnia, pain, catastrophism and work avoidance behaviour levels were assessed

Conditions

Critical Illness; Sars-CoV2; SARS Pneumonia; Coronavirus Infection; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Anxiety

  Mesured by STAY Scale

  15 to 45 days after the beginning of the outbreak

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Insomnia

  15 to 45 days after the beginning of the outbreak

• Catastrophism

  15 to 45 days after the beginning of the outbreak

Study Arms (1)

Employees of Nîmes University Hospital (France)

Employees of Nîmes University Hospital (France)

Eligibility Criteria

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

Study Population

All employees of ICHU Nîmes participating to the present study will be sent a questionnaire for assessing the potential occurrence of anxiety This evaluation will be performed after the beginning of the outbreak (15 to 45 days)

You may qualify if:

• Employees of CHU Nîmes during COVID-19 pandemic
• Approved to participate

You may not qualify if:

• Participation refusal

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes: lead

Study Sites (1)

Intensive care unit CHU Nimes

Nîmes, 30029, France

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Brooks SK, Webster RK, Smith LE, Woodland L, Wessely S, Greenberg N, Rubin GJ. The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence. Lancet. 2020 Mar 14;395(10227):912-920. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30460-8. Epub 2020 Feb 26.

  PMID: 32112714 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Critical Illness; Coronavirus Infections; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Disease Attributes; Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Coronaviridae Infections; Nidovirales Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Virus Diseases; Infections; Stress Disorders, Traumatic; Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders; Mental Disorders

Study Design

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

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 21, 2020
• First Posted: April 24, 2020
• Study Start: April 9, 2020
• Primary Completion: April 27, 2020
• Study Completion: April 27, 2020
• Last Updated: December 19, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-12

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

FR (1)