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

Critical Illness Clinical Trial

— PSY_CO_CHU  

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04358640
• Other study ID #: LOCAL COVID 2019/JYL-01)
• Status: Completed
• Start date: April 9, 2020
• Est. completion date: April 27, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: December 2020
• Source: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nimes
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial 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

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1784
• Est. completion date: April 27, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: April 27, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Employees of CHU Nîmes during COVID-19 pandemic

• Approved to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participation refusal

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Coronavirus Infection
• Coronavirus Infections
• Critical Illness
• Pneumonia
• SARS Pneumonia
• Sars-CoV2
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Intensive care unit CHU Nimes	Nîmes

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nimes

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

References & 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. Review. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Anxiety	Mesured by STAY Scale	15 to 45 days after the beginning of the outbreak
Secondary	Insomnia	Participant suffering of Insomnia	15 to 45 days after the beginning of the outbreak
Secondary	Catastrophism	Participant suffering of catastrophism	15 to 45 days after the beginning of the outbreak