Emotional Intelligence Skills Health Leaders Need During Covid-19

Covid-19 Clinical Trial

Official title:

Emotional Intelligence Skills Leaders and Managers Need to Engage Frontline Healthcare Professionals During Covid-19 Pandemic

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Enrolling by invitation

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04694014
• Other study ID #: IREC/2020/143 AN0003667W500G
• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Start date: October 15, 2020
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: December 2020
• Source: African Wood Inc
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Problem The study will address the problem that no studies have established the Emotional Intelligence (EI) skills required by leaders and managers to engage frontline healthcare professionals in crisis situation like Covid19 in Kenya Purpose The purpose of the qualitative exploratory study is to identify the EI skills Leaders and managers need to engage Frontline Healthcare Professionals in Crisis. The Research Question is: What are the EI skills leaders and managers need to engage frontline healthcare professionals (FHP) during crisis situations such as the Covid19 pandemic?

Description:

Hypothesis The Study hypothesis that Leaders and managers with appropriate emotional intelligence skills will engage frontline healthcare professionals in crisis situations resulting in desired outcomes Data Collection The data collection will start with a primer survey on surveymonkey.com, behavioral and cognitive assessments through The Predictive Index, emotional intelligence competence assessments through emco4.com, followed by semi-structured face to face or virtual interviews with the participants. The Survey data, Assessments and the transcribed semi-structured interviews will be depersonalized and made available for subsequent researchers. The Videos if any will be destroyed three years after transcription. Participants The 20 Participants will be selected from the population. The Study population is the number of experienced frontline healthcare professionals working in Busia County of Kenya. The County Department of Health will help in recruiting participants from doctors, nurses, and other frontline healthcare professionals. Data Analysis The Data will be analyzed using DiscoverText.com cloud-based platform applying two rounds of coding: first in Vivo coding will be applied then prior codes will be enforced. The Vivo codes will be in the participant's word and voice. Eight priori codes will be adopted from EI literature. Societal Benefits Society needs healthcare professionals to deal with crisis situations that place them in imperilment. The leaders have constraints of resources, time and advanced knowledge. This study seeks to seek out EI skills that will enable leaders to engage healthcare professionals while recognizing the humanity in them.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Enrollment: 20
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: May 30, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 25 Years to 67 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

Experience frontline healthcare professionals working in Busia County of Kenya

Exclusion Criteria:

• None healthcare professionals
• healthcare professionals not working in Busia county

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Covid-19
• Emotional Intelligence
• Health Personnel Attitude
• Leadership

Intervention

Behavioral:
• EI Open ended Pre-Survey and Semi Structured Interview
Provide Interview questions via online survey with informed consent to the participants then contact a 60 minute member checking interview in person or virtually via recorded Zoom sessions for each participant
• Behavioral and Cognitive Assessment
Use Predictive index for both cognitive and behavioral assessment of the paticipants
• Geneva Emotional Competence Test (GECO)
Administer the Geneva Emotional Competence Test to each participant

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Kenya	Alupe University College	Busia

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
African Wood Inc	Alupe University College

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Kenya, 

References & Publications (5)

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Emotional Intelligence Competences Frontline Healthcare Professional need in their Leaders	The EI Competences that the participants stated that are needed from their leaders by questioner	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	EI Competence of Participants	The Geneva Emotional Competence (GECO) test measure of EI for each participant compared the stated EI needed by Leaders	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Participant Behavioral Analysis	Behavioral Outcome by Predictive Index Proprietary scale	through study completion, an average of 1 year