Corona And Manual Professions

Covid19 Clinical Trial

— CAMP  

Official title:

COVID-19 Pandemic and Small Businesses in the Health Care Sector - Work Environment, Health and Economy of Swedish Chiropractors and Naprapaths

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04834583
• Other study ID #: KIIMMRIAII
• Status: Completed
• Start date: November 2, 2020
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: October 2023
• Source: Karolinska Institutet
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This observational study will follow the chiropractors and naprapaths in Sweden to study how work environment, health, and economy is changing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Description:

All manual therapists that are members of a professional organization in Sweden will be invited to participate. The study started in November 2020 with follow-ups planned after 3,6 and 12 months. All data-collection is taking place with digital questionnaires. There are three main areas of interest: 1. Work environment (knowledge about viral contageon, protection, availability of protective measures, disturbances in care for patients) 2. Health (physical and psychological, how many caught the virus?) 3. Economy (income, costs, turnover)

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 703
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: January 31, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Chiropractor or naprapath working in Sweden
• clinically active
• belonging to a professional organization Exclusion Criteria:

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• COVID-19
• Covid19

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Karolinska Institutet	Stockholm

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Karolinska Institutet	Sophiahemmet University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Work environment	Changes in routines according to the pandemic This includes systematic work environment routines, cleaning, wearing protective gear, not treating patients belonging to certain risk categories, changing appointment scheduling etc. There are no validated questionnaires to examine these concepts, as we have not experienced a pandemic in modern times, so the questions are constructed by the research group.	12 months
Primary	Physical Health -Pain	Physical pain using the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire	12 months
Primary	Psychological Health -depression	Depression assessed with DASS-21	12 months
Primary	Psychological Health -sleep	Sleep will be assessed using Karolinska Sleep Questionnaire.	12 months
Primary	Economy	Changes in company turnover. For clinic owners, this measure is assessing income and cost, estimated by clinic owners, There are no validated questionnaires to examine these concepts, as we have not experienced a pandemic in modern times, so the questions are constructed by the research group.	12 months