Perceived Stress Among ICU Medical Staff During COVID-19 Crisis

Coronavirus Clinical Trial

— ICUcovid  

Official title:

Perceived Stress and Needs Among Medical Staff in ICU During COVID-19 Crisis

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04604769
• Other study ID #: stressICUcovid
• Status: Completed
• Start date: June 26, 2019
• Est. completion date: September 1, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: October 2020
• Source: University of Liege
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The objective of this study is to compare psychological distress and needs of nurses in ICU before and during coronavirus pandemic.

Description:

Well-being of caregivers and stress management in intensive care units are essential keys to an adequate quality of care, especially during the anxious context of coronavirus pandemic. Taking care of numerous patients, the increasing work and mental charges, facing death, the need of material and changes in work organization are all elements that can influence stress among medical workers. Considering real causes of stress and what are the needs of the medical team is fundamental for developing concrete actions to ease the workloads. A few studies were conducted in China on psychological distress of medical staff during COVID-19. According to these few studies about psychological distress in ICU, investigators think that stress scores during COVID-19 could be increased among nurses during pandemic. The second hypothesis is that causes of stress would be not so different from normal care but could be amplified by the actual situation. One point to take into consideration is that most of the studies were conducted in China and medical policy and hospital organization are different in Belgium. The objective of the study is to compare psychological distress and needs of nurses in ICU before and during coronavirus pandemic.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: September 1, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: September 1, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adults > 18 years old

• working in ICU for at least November 2019

• working in ICU regularly since March 2020

• Medical and paramedical professionals

• Working in direct contact with COVID patients

Exclusion Criteria:

• Medical professionals from others departments

• Internship students

• External volunteers for COVID

• Non front-line nurses

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Coronavirus
• Coronavirus Infections
• Nurse's Role
• Occupational Stress
• Professional Stress

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Belgium	University of Liège	Liège	Province De Liège

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Liege

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Belgium, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	stress at work	Job Content Questionnaire (Karasek, 1979)	change from baseline at one year
Primary	stress in a medical unit	Nursing Stress Questionnaire (Gray-Toft, 1981)	change from baseline at one year
Secondary	hobby activities	We will ask if they are used to do activities like hypnosis, yoga, mediation, sport, etc. This factor could help us to know if these activities can help and if we have to promote them in the hospital.	change from baseline at one year