Impact of Pandemic COVID-19 on Surgical Specialities Residents in Italy

COVID Clinical Trial

Official title:

Impact of Pandemic COVID-19 on Surgical Specialities Residents in Italy: an Italian Polispecialistic Society of Young Surgeons (S.P.I.G.C.) Survey

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04338945
• Other study ID #: COVID-ItaliansurgRES-SPIGC
• Status: Completed
• Start date: March 15, 2020
• Est. completion date: May 1, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: March 2022
• Source: Piazza della Vittoria 14 Studio Medico - Ginecologia e Ostetricia
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The Coronavirus Emergency has severely affected Italian Healthcare National System. This event made it necessary to adopt extraordinary containment measures and to allocate extraordinary resources in Italian hospitals. In many centers routinely elective surgical activity has been decreased or even completely abolished. We believe that this exceptional condition is being consequently having a significant impact on surgical training programs.

Description:

Purpose of this investigation, organized by the Italian Polispecialistic Society of Young Surgeons (S.P.I.G.C.), is to establish the impact of COVID-19 emergency in the work and training activities of Italian surgical residents.

There will be collected the residents' impressions by completing a survey on this topic. A sub-analysis for each pandemic wave (first, second, third) will be done.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 800
• Est. completion date: May 1, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: April 15, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Residents in the following surgical specialities: cardiothoracic surgery, colon and rectal surgery, general surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, gynecologic oncology, neurological surgery, ophthalmic surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthopaedic surgery, otorhinolaryngology, pediatric surgery, plastic and maxillofacial surgery, urology, and vascular surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• Undergratuated and postgraduated students

• Consultants in surgical areas

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• COVID

Intervention

Behavioral:
• COVID-surgRES questionaire
The questionaire gives a multidimensional assessment of residents' impression with regard to impact of COVID emergency on Italian specialist training programs

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Italy	U.O.C. Chirurgia Generale Universitaria "V. Bonomo"	Bari
Italy	Ospedale Perrino Asl Brindisi	Brindisi
Italy	Dipartimento di scienze mediche e chirurgiche, Università di Catanzaro	Catanzaro
Italy	Ospedale Policlinico San Martino	Genova
Italy	Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo-Forlanini	Roma
Italy	IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli	Roma
Italy	Ospedale Cristo re	Roma

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Piazza della Vittoria 14 Studio Medico - Ginecologia e Ostetricia

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Measure of the impact of first wave of COVID Pandemic on surgical specialist training programs	Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers	1-3 months after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy
Primary	Measure of the impact of second wave of COVID Pandemic on surgical specialist training programs	Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers	1 year after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy
Primary	Measure of the impact of third wave of COVID Pandemic on surgical specialist training programs	Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers	2 years after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy
Secondary	Measure of impact of first wave of COVID Pandemic on wellness of residents	Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers	1-3 months after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy
Secondary	Measure of impact of second wave of COVID Pandemic on wellness of residents	Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers	1 year after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy
Secondary	Measure of impact of third wave of COVID Pandemic on wellness of residents	Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers	2 years after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy