PSY_CO_CHU: Anxiety and Work Resilience Among Tertiary University Hospital Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Online Survey

Sponsor
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes (Other)
Overall Status
Completed
CT.gov ID
NCT04358640
Collaborator
(none)
1,784
1
18
3016.7

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

For limiting COVID-19 spreading, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended worldwide confinement on 2010. In France, unessential institutions were closed on March 14th and population confinement was decided on March 17th.

Quarantine and/or confinement could lead to psychological effects such as confusion, suicide ideation, post-traumatic stress symptoms or anger COVID-19 outbreak highlighted a considerable proportion of health care workers (HCW) with depression, insomnia, anxiety and distress symptoms. In front line, facing the virus with the fear of contracting it and contaminate their closest. During previous outbreaks (H1N1, SARS), HCWs have been shown to experience such negative psychological effects of confinement as well as work avoidance behaviour and physical interaction reduction with infected patients (4-7).

In France, Covid 19 outbeak led to increase ICU bed capacity with a full reorganization of the human resources. Some caregivers were reassigned to newly setup units admitting or not Covid-19 patients. In the same time, non-caregivers were also encouraged to work at home whenever possible. Thus, every hospital staff member's private and professional life could be altered by the Covid-19 outbreak.

As all these changes in the daily life could induce psychological disturbances, the present study was aimed at assessing the acute anxiety level (main objective) of the staff in our Tertiary University Hospital, (6300 employees). Secondarily, the self-reported insomnia, pain, catastrophism and work avoidance behaviour levels were assessed

Study Design

Study Type:
Observational
Actual Enrollment :
1784 participants
Observational Model:
Other
Time Perspective:
Prospective
Official Title:
Anxiety and Work Resilience Among Tertiary University Hospital Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Online Survey
Actual Study Start Date :
Apr 9, 2020
Actual Primary Completion Date :
Apr 27, 2020
Actual Study Completion Date :
Apr 27, 2020

Arms and Interventions

Arm Intervention/Treatment
Employees of Nîmes University Hospital (France)

Employees of Nîmes University Hospital (France)

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

  1. Anxiety [15 to 45 days after the beginning of the outbreak]

    Mesured by STAY Scale

Secondary Outcome Measures

  1. Insomnia [15 to 45 days after the beginning of the outbreak]

    Participant suffering of Insomnia

  2. Catastrophism [15 to 45 days after the beginning of the outbreak]

    Participant suffering of catastrophism

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:
18 Years and Older
Sexes Eligible for Study:
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Yes
Inclusion Criteria:
  • Employees of CHU Nîmes during COVID-19 pandemic

  • Approved to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participation refusal

Contacts and Locations

Locations

Site City State Country Postal Code
1 Intensive care unit CHU Nimes Nîmes France 30029

Sponsors and Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

Responsible Party:
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT04358640
Other Study ID Numbers:
  • LOCAL COVID 2019/JYL-01)
First Posted:
Apr 24, 2020
Last Update Posted:
Dec 19, 2020
Last Verified:
Dec 1, 2020
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
No
Plan to Share IPD:
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:
No
Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Dec 19, 2020