The Professional Peer Resilience Initiative

Anxiety Clinical Trial

— PPRI  

Official title:

The Professional Peer Resilience Initiative: Leveraging a Data-Driven Model to Maximize the Resilience of Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Enrolling by invitation

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04396600
• Other study ID #: PSYCH-2020-28762
• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Start date: June 8, 2020
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: September 2023
• Source: University of Minnesota
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The Professional Peer Resilience Initiative (PPRI) study is an observational study aimed at understanding how symptoms of traumatic stress and resilience evolve over time in the University of Minnesota (UMN) healthcare workforce during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The study is being conducted concurrently with a UMN peer support program called the MinnRAP program and will remotely administer quality of life and mental health surveys to healthcare workers before they start the MinnRAP program and throughout their participation in the program.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Enrollment: 1200
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: December 1, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthcare workers (HCWs) and mental health consultants (MHCs) in UMN medical school departments

Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety
• Anxiety Disorders
• Anxiety State
• Compassion Fatigue
• Emotional Resilience
• Fractures, Stress
• Mental Resilience
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Professional Quality of Life
• Psychological Trauma
• Secondary Traumatic Stress
• Stress
• Stress Disorder
• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
• Stress Disorders, Traumatic
• Stress Reaction
• Stress Related Disorder
• Stress Risk
• Stress, Psychological
• Trauma, Psychological

Intervention

Behavioral:
• MinnRAP Peer Support Program
The behavioral intervention consists of 1) pairing healthcare workers into "Battle Buddies" who maintain daily dialogue to detect stress and anxiety and 2) assigning a mental health consultant to each department to facilitate Battle Buddies and provide both small group sessions and individual psychological triage/referrals.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Minnesota	Minneapolis	Minnesota

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Minnesota

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in professional quality of life	Professional Quality of Life Questionnaire (proQOL): min score of 10; max score of 50; higher scores mean worse outcome	Before peer support program, through study completion (an average of 7 months)
Secondary	Change in mental health symptoms and resilience markers	Stress Risk & Resilience Self-Index: min score 0; max score of 12; higher scores mean worse outcome	Before peer support program, through study completion (an average of 7 months)