Evaluation of Staff COVID-19 Wellbeing Centres in a Healthcare Workplace: COVID-WELL Study

Mental Health Wellness 1 Clinical Trial

— COVID-WELL  

Official title:

Evaluation of a Workplace Intervention to Implement Supported COVID-19 Wellbeing Centres in a Healthcare Workplace During and After the Coronavirus Pandemic: The COVID-WELL Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04410016
• Other study ID #: COVID-WELL_May20
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 25, 2020
• Est. completion date: October 30, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: August 2021
• Source: University of Nottingham
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Evaluation of a workplace intervention to implement supported wellbeing centres in a healthcare workplace during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mixed-Methods Evaluation study - including collection of service use monitoring data, online survey and qualitative interviews.

Description:

Project Aims:

1. To describe the cost, reach and usage of the Staff Wellbeing Centres

2. To gather insight into experiences of those who access the facility ('service users') as well as those of support workers ('wellbeing buddies').

3. To identify any facilitators, obstacles or barriers to accessing the facility.

4. To identify perceptions of facility users and non-users towards the value of the facilities during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

5. To establish recommendations for longer-term sustainability of the wellbeing centres.

Interviews will be conducted with up to 45 interview participants (10-15 Wellbeing Buddies, 25-30 Staff).

Online survey will be conducted - all Nottingham University Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) staff invited to take part (>14,000).

The survey will include measures of mental wellbeing (Warwick-Edinburgh Wellbeing Scale, 14-item - license received), and single items measures of job stressfulness, job satisfaction, presenteeism, turnover intentions and work engagement.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 819
• Est. completion date: October 30, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: July 31, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• National Health Service staff which includes employees, volunteers or healthcare students, as well as bank staff (all have access to the Staff Wellbeing Centres).

• Ability to give informed consent. For survey element: Ability to access the internet (to complete the online survey) For interview element: Ability to attend an individual interview.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability to communicate in spoken English.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Mental Health Wellness 1

Intervention

Other:
• Staff Wellbeing Centres
2 Centres (rooms) accessible to staff for rest and relaxation, work breaks, supports advice and signposting. They are manned by support workers called Wellbeing Buddies.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	Nottingham	Nottinghamshire

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Nottingham	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

References & Publications (2)

Blake H, Gupta A, Javed M, Wood B, Knowles S, Coyne E, Cooper J. COVID-Well Study: Qualitative Evaluation of Supported Wellbeing Centres and Psychological First Aid for Healthcare Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 — View Citation

Blake H, Yildirim M, Wood B, Knowles S, Mancini H, Coyne E, Cooper J. COVID-Well: Evaluation of the Implementation of Supported Wellbeing Centres for Hospital Employees during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Dec 15;17(24). pii — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Qualitative Interviews with Staff	Users and non-users of Wellbeing Centres	Once per study, telephone interview (during a 6-week interview period)
Other	Qualitative Interviews with Wellbeing Buddies	Support Workers within the Wellbeing Centres	Once per study, telephone interview (during a 6-week interview period)
Primary	Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale	14-item scale to measure mental wellbeing. Total scores range from 14 to 70 and higher scores indicate greater positive mental wellbeing.	Baseline
Secondary	Single Item Measure of Global Job Stressfulness (Houdmont et al, 2019)	Single-item measure. Scores range from 1 to 5 and higher scores indicated greater job stressfulness.	Baseline
Secondary	Single Item Global Job Satisfaction Measure (Dolbier et al, 2005)	Single-item measure. Scores range from 1 to 5 and higher scores indicated greater job satisfaction.	Baseline
Secondary	Single Item Measure of Presenteeism (Aronsson & Gustafsson, 2004)	Single-item measure. Scores range from 1 to 4, with higher scores indicating greater presenteeism.	Baseline
Secondary	Single Item Measure of Turnover intentions (Ryan et al, 2017)	Single-item measure. Scored 1=no intent to leave, 2=intent to leave	Baseline
Secondary	Work Engagement (Shaufeli et al, 2006)	Dedication subscale of the 9-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (3 items will be used: 2, 3 and 4). Scores range from 0 to 6, with higher scores indicating greater work engagement.	Baseline

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