Socio-psychological Status of Healthcare Workers During SARS-CoV2 Pandemic

Depression, Anxiety Clinical Trial

Official title:

Socio-psychological Status of Healthcare Workers During SARS-CoV2 Pandemic

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04961372
• Other study ID #: ErzincanUniversity
• Status: Completed
• Start date: March 1, 2021
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: March 2022
• Source: Erzincan University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of our study is to investigate the presence of depression, anxiety and fear in healthcare workers during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic process, to evaluate their work and social life situations, as well as to evaluate the perspectives of the entire population towards hospital admission, surgery decision and vaccination.

Description:

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV2) was detected by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on 7 January 2020 in a patient with atypical pneumonia in Wuhan, China, via a nasopharyngeal swab. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared it a "Pandemic". SARS-CoV2 quickly turned into a global epidemic, with a total of 134,957,021 confirmed cases and 2,918,752 deaths reported in April 2021.Since SARS-CoV2 is a highly contagious disease, the risk of infection in healthcare workers is quite high. In one of the earliest studies in Wuhan, 29 percent of patients (40 out of 138) were reported to be healthcare workers. A report from the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that a total of 9,282 healthcare workers were diagnosed with COVID-19, including 27 deaths, between February 12 and April 9, 2020. Eleven to nineteen percent of COVID-19 cases have been identified as healthcare professionals.As the investigators have seen in studies of SARS or Ebola outbreaks, the sudden onset of an immediately life-threatening epidemic can place an extraordinary amount of pressure on healthcare workers. Increased workload, physical fatigue, inadequate personal equipment, nosocomial transmission, and having to make ethically difficult decisions can have dramatic effects on their physical and mental health. The weight of working conditions together with the risk of illness of their social environment and families can cause mental health problems such as fear and anxiety in healthcare workers.When an effective vaccination program is in place, population uptake should be as high as possible to achieve herd immunity. Vaccination hesitancy, defined as a delay in acceptance or rejection of vaccination despite the availability of vaccination services, is one of the barriers to this. It is a complex special case that varies with time, place, and vaccines. It is influenced by factors such as peace of mind, convenience, and trust. Vaccine hesitations have been identified as one of the ten global health threats of 2019.The aim of our study is to investigate the presence of depression, anxiety and fear in healthcare workers during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic process, to evaluate their work and social life situations, as well as to evaluate the perspectives of the entire population towards hospital admission, surgery decision and vaccination.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 333
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: September 1, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All healthcare workers aged between 18-65 who works at Siran Government Hospital

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participants who did not agree to participate in the study
• Uncooperative participants

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Depression
• Depression, Anxiety

Intervention

Other:
• Survey
PHQ9 Depression Scale for evaluating depression, GAD7 Anxiety Score for evaluating anxiety, WSAS Score for evaluating Work and Social Adjustment

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Siran Government Hospital	Gumushane	Siran

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Erzincan University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Score	Depression Score.1-4 Minimal depression,5-9 Mild depression,10-14 Moderate depression,15-19 Moderately severe depression,20-27 Severe depression	6 Months
Primary	Generalised Anxiety Disorder Assessment Score	Anxiety Score. 0-4: minimal anxiety,5-9: mild anxiety,10-14: moderate anxiety,15-21: severe anxiety	6 Months
Primary	Work and Social Adjustment Score	Work and Social Adjustment Score. WSAS score above 20 appears to suggest moderately severe or worse psychopathology. Scores between 10 and 20 are associated with significant functional impairment but less severe clinical symptomatology. Scores below 10 appear to be associated with subclinical populations	6 Months