Burnout and Medical Errors in the Anaesthesiology Fraternity During Covid-19 Pandemic

Depression Clinical Trial

Official title:

Burnout and Medical Errors in the Anaesthesiology Fraternity in an Exclusively Covid-19 Hospital: the Malaysian Experience

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04362319
• Other study ID #: 54753
• Status: Completed
• Start date: May 15, 2020
• Est. completion date: May 31, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: June 2020
• Source: University of Malaya
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

We plan to perform an observational study to evaluate the prevalence of burnout, depression and medical errors in a designated exclusive Covid-19 patients hospital in Malaysia, during the Covid-19 pandemic. We also seek to assess the relationship between burnout and depression with medical errors. The population studied will be the anaesthesiology fraternity, who are at higher risk to the nature of their work at the frontlines of the pandemic.

Description:

During this unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic crisis in the whole world, Malaysia is also affected, with more than 5000 patients infected in the whole country as of 20th April, 2020. Many anaesthesiology clinicians, who are at the frontlines of managing Covid-19 patients, face increased workload, in addition to psychological stress from managing these patients, with stress also coming from being exposed to the risk of cross infection. Hence, they are possibly at high risk of burnout and depression. In such a time of increased stress, we also seek to find out the prevalence of medical errors by anaesthetic clinicians during this pandemic, and whether the medical errors are associated with burnout. Factors associated with burnout, depression and medical errors will also be evaluated.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 85
• Est. completion date: May 31, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: May 31, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

1. All anaesthesiologists and anaesthesiology medical officers currently serving in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Sungai Buloh Hospital

Exclusion criteria

1. Subjects who refuse to participate

2. Subjects working in Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Sungai Buloh Hospital, for less than 1 month

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Burnout, Professional
• Burnout, Psychological
• Covid-19
• Depression
• Medical Errors

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• Questionnaire forms
Assessment of demographics, burnout, depression and self-perceived medical errors

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Malaysia	Sungai Buloh Hospital	Sungai Buloh	Selangor

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Malaya	Ministry of Health, Malaysia

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Malaysia, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Prevalence of burnout among anaesthesiology clinicians during Covid-19	Assessment of burnout risk	One month
Primary	Prevalence of depression risk among anaesthesiology clinicians during Covid-19	Assessment of depression risk	One month
Primary	Prevalence of self-perceived medical errors among anaesthesiology clinicians during Covid-19	Assessment of medical errors	One month
Primary	Association of burnout, depression and medical errors among anaesthesiology clinicians during Covid-19	To find out if there exists a relationship between burnout, depression and medical errors	One month