COVID-19 Psychological Wellbeing for Healthcare Students

Psychological Wellbeing Clinical Trial

— PoWerS  

Official title:

PoWerS Study: Psychological Wellbeing for Healthcare Students: Evaluation of a COVID-19 Digital Learning Package

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04429828
• Other study ID #: PoWerS_June2020
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 13, 2020
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: August 2021
• Source: University of Nottingham
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

We have developed an online learning resource designed to support healthcare staff during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This resource has been produced in anticipation of the psychological effect of working during this time. This is an open access, free, online resource available here: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_22794 It is designed to be relevant for healthcare staff, and we are evaluating it now with healthcare students as our next generation of healthcare staff. We are interested in knowing more about your views of healthcare students towards this package. This will help us to determine its value as a learning resource to support psychological wellbeing in healthcare students, alongside other welfare supports. The aim is to describe the views of healthcare students towards an e-learning package developed in response to COVID-19 on Psychological Wellbeing for Healthcare Workers.

Description:

The investigators aim to:

• gather insight into the emotional highs and lows of being a healthcare student during the pandemic

• identify any facilitators, obstacles or barriers to accessing the e-package.

• identify perceptions of healthcare students towards the value of the e-package during and after the COVID19 pandemic.

• establish recommendations for longer-term support for psychological wellbeing in healthcare students.

Qualitative interviews will be conducted with up to 45 purposively sampled healthcare students who have accessed the e-learning resource. The interview will be semi-structured and include a measure of mental wellbeing (Warwick-Edinburgh Wellbeing Scale, 14-item - license received), and single items measures of job stressfulness, job satisfaction, presenteeism, turnover intentions and work engagement.

Findings will inform future supportive interventions for healthcare students.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 42
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: September 30, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria:

• Healthcare students (e.g. any students who are registered on a healthcare course).

• Ability to give informed consent.

• Ability to attend an individual interview (remotely).

Exclusion criteria:

• Not a registered healthcare student.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Psychological Wellbeing

Intervention

Other:
• COVID-19 e-package: Psychological wellbeing for healthcare workers
All healthcare students have access to a COVID-19 educational learning package around psychological wellbeing (usual practice). In this study the investigators will conduct semi-structured qualitative interviews with healthcare students about their mental wellbeing, and use of this e-package.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	University of Nottingham	Nottingham

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Nottingham

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Qualitative Interviews with Healthcare Students	Users of the e-package	Once per study, telephone interview (during a 6-week interview period)
Primary	Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale	14-item scale to measure mental wellbeing. Total scores range from 14 to 70 and higher scores indicate greater positive mental wellbeing.	Baseline
Secondary	Single Item Measure of Global Job Stressfulness (Houdmont et al, 2019)	Single-item measure. Scores range from 1 to 5 and higher scores indicated greater job stressfulness.	Baseline
Secondary	Single Item Global Job Satisfaction Measure (Dolbier et al, 2005)	Single-item measure. Scores range from 1 to 5 and higher scores indicated greater job satisfaction.	Baseline
Secondary	Single Item Measure of Presenteeism (Aronsson & Gustafsson, 2004)	Single-item measure. Scores range from 1 to 4, with higher scores indicating greater presenteeism.	Baseline
Secondary	Single Item Measure of Turnover intentions	Single-item measure. Scored 1=no intent to leave, 2=intent to leave	Baseline
Secondary	Work Engagement (Shaufeli et al, 2006)	Dedication subscale of the 9-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (3 items will be used: 2, 3 and 4). Scores range from 0 to 6, with higher scores indicating greater work engagement.	Baseline