Digital Interventions for Detection and Reduction of Moral Distress

Distress, Emotional Clinical Trial

— VR  

Official title:

Could Digital Interventions Help Understand And "Flatten The Curve" Of Distress Due To Moral Injury Among Health Care Workers During The COVID Pandemic?

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05001542
• Other study ID #: 21-066
• Secondary ID: CPCA-0592
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 31, 2021
• Est. completion date: August 30, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: October 2021
• Source: Unity Health Toronto
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Stress, anxiety, distress and depression are exceptionally high among healthcare workers at the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. Factors underlying distress and resilience are unknown and there are no evidence based interventions to impact the mental wellbeing of frontline healthcare workers. This study will evaluate a novel virtual reality platform to gather the "distress experience" of frontline healthcare workers at Unity Health Toronto in real time during the ongoing COVID pandemic by developing and showing feasibility of digital technology (Virtual Reality (VR) and mobile app) as a digital platform to understand the causes and ultimately reduce the moral distress of healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will develop innovations which can be used for future pandemics and other contexts prone to producing moral distress and injury.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 15
• Est. completion date: August 30, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: August 30, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Staff or healthcare providers working at Unity Health Toronto

• 18 years of age or older

• Must own a mobile phone running Android Version 6.0 and higher, or an iPhone 6 running OS 14 and higher)

Exclusion Criterion:

• Non-Unity Health Toronto staff

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Distress, Emotional
• Moral Injury
• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Intervention

Other:
• Educational moral injury video
Educational video that addresses the identification of moral injury and distress in frontline healthcare workers during COVID-19; offers available interventions at the levels of individual, team and organization

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	St. Michael's Hospital	Toronto	Ontario

Sponsors (5)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Unity Health Toronto	McMaster University, Ryerson University, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, University of Toronto

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Feasibility evaluation of the virtual reality environment	The primary outcome measure will be a comparison of MIOS (Moral Injury Outcome Scale) and PSS (Perceived Stress Scale) scores before and after watching an educational video on moral injury; feasibility of this platform will be assessed based on a feasibility questionnaire and changes in score.	60 minutes (during the intervention)
Secondary	Feasibility evaluation of a mobile platform to understand the continuum of stress and moral distress.	Feasibility of the mobile platform will be measured based on dropout rate	Up to 8 weeks