Moral Judgements and Choices of Caregivers in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic

Morals Clinical Trial

— XPHI-COVID19  

Official title:

Moral Judgements and Choices of Caregivers in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic: a Randomized Experimental Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04542122
• Other study ID #: 1474
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 3, 2020
• Est. completion date: August 2, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: July 2020
• Source: University Hospital, Caen
• Contact: Clement GAKUBA, MD PhD
• Phone: +33231064736
• Email: gakuba-c[@]chu-caen.fr
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The XPHI-COVID19 randomized study aims to investigate the mechanisms of moral judgements in a population of caregivers, using a survey, with the results to the Oxford Utilitarianism Scale as primary outcome.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 500
• Est. completion date: August 2, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: April 30, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 99 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All caregivers from french public healthcare center with Intensive Care Unit

• Agreement

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refuse to participate or withdraw agreement

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Morals

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Choices and judgements
In the intervention arm, the participant is asked to answer clinical cases in a reverse order from the control group (control has to make moral choices then judge somebody else's choices ; intervention has to judge moral choices first, then make his own)

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Caen	University of Geneva, Switzerland

References & Publications (8)

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Rosenbaum L. Facing Covid-19 in Italy - Ethics, Logistics, and Therapeutics on the Epidemic's Front Line. N Engl J Med. 2020 May 14;382(20):1873-1875. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2005492. Epub 2020 Mar 18. — View Citation

Truog RD, Mitchell C, Daley GQ. The Toughest Triage - Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic. N Engl J Med. 2020 May 21;382(21):1973-1975. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2005689. Epub 2020 Mar 23. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Oxford Utilitarianism Scale	Two-Dimensional Model of Utilitarian Psychology	Up to one year