Nursing Perspective on Burnout and Medical Errors in the Intensive Care Unit During Covid-19 Pandemic

Sponsor

University of Malaya (Other)

Overall Status

Terminated

CT.gov ID

NCT04371302

Collaborator

(none)

145

Enrollment

Location

Actual Duration (Months)

73.6

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

The investigators 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. In addition, the relationship between burnout and depression with medical errors will be assessed. The population studied will be the nurses working in the Intensive Care Unit, who are at higher risk due to the nature of their work at the frontlines of the pandemic.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Burnout, Professional Medical Errors Depression	Diagnostic Test: Questionnaire

Detailed 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 Intensive Care Unit nurses, 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, the investigators also seek to find out the prevalence of medical errors made by Intensive Care Unit nurses during this pandemic, and whether the medical errors are associated with burnout. Factors associated with burnout, depression and medical errors will also be evaluated.

Study Design

Study Type:

Observational

Actual Enrollment :

145 participants

Observational Model:

Cohort

Time Perspective:

Cross-Sectional

Official Title:

Nursing Perspective on Burnout and Medical Errors in the Intensive Care Unit of an Exclusively Covid-19 Hospital: the Malaysian Experience

Actual Study Start Date :

May 1, 2020

Actual Primary Completion Date :

Jun 30, 2020

Actual Study Completion Date :

Jun 30, 2020

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Intensive Care Unit nurses Nurses working in the Intensive care Unit of an exclusive Covid-19 hospital in Malaysia, during the Covid-19 pandemic	Diagnostic Test: Questionnaire Assessment of demographics, burnout, depression and self-perceived medical errors

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Intensive Care Unit nurses

Nurses working in the Intensive care Unit of an exclusive Covid-19 hospital in Malaysia, during the Covid-19 pandemic

Diagnostic Test: Questionnaire

Assessment of demographics, burnout, depression and self-perceived medical errors

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Prevalence of burnout among ICU nurses during Covid-19 [2 months]
Prevalence of burnout risk
Prevalence of depression among ICU nurses during Covid-19 [2 months]
Prevalence of depression risk
Prevalence of self-perceived medical errors among ICU nurses during Covid-19 [2 months]
Prevalence of self perceived medical errors
Association of burnout, depression and medical errors among anaesthesiology clinicians during Covid-19 [2 months]
To find out if there exists a relationship between burnout, depression and medical errors