PPRI: The Professional Peer Resilience Initiative

Sponsor

University of Minnesota (Other)

Overall Status

Enrolling by invitation

CT.gov ID

NCT04396600

Collaborator

(none)

1,200

Enrollment

Location

23.5

Anticipated Duration (Months)

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

The Professional Peer Resilience Initiative (PPRI) study is an observational study aimed at understanding how symptoms of traumatic stress and resilience evolve over time in the University of Minnesota (UMN) healthcare workforce during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The study is being conducted concurrently with a UMN peer support program called the MinnRAP program and will remotely administer quality of life and mental health surveys to healthcare workers before they start the MinnRAP program and throughout their participation in the program.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Stress Stress Disorder Stress, Psychological Trauma, Psychological Anxiety Anxiety State Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Secondary Traumatic Stress Professional Quality of Life Stress Related Disorder Stress Reaction Stress Risk Mental Resilience Emotional Resilience	Behavioral: MinnRAP Peer Support Program

Study Design

Study Type:

Observational

Anticipated Enrollment :

1200 participants

Observational Model:

Cohort

Time Perspective:

Prospective

Official Title:

The Professional Peer Resilience Initiative: Leveraging a Data-Driven Model to Maximize the Resilience of Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Actual Study Start Date :

Jun 8, 2020

Anticipated Primary Completion Date :

May 25, 2022

Anticipated Study Completion Date :

May 25, 2022

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Healthcare Workers Already Starting Peer Support Program	Behavioral: MinnRAP Peer Support Program The behavioral intervention consists of 1) pairing healthcare workers into "Battle Buddies" who maintain daily dialogue to detect stress and anxiety and 2) assigning a mental health consultant to each department to facilitate Battle Buddies and provide both small group sessions and individual psychological triage/referrals.
Healthcare Workers Starting Peer Support Program Later	Behavioral: MinnRAP Peer Support Program The behavioral intervention consists of 1) pairing healthcare workers into "Battle Buddies" who maintain daily dialogue to detect stress and anxiety and 2) assigning a mental health consultant to each department to facilitate Battle Buddies and provide both small group sessions and individual psychological triage/referrals.

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Healthcare Workers Already Starting Peer Support Program

Behavioral: MinnRAP Peer Support Program

The behavioral intervention consists of 1) pairing healthcare workers into "Battle Buddies" who maintain daily dialogue to detect stress and anxiety and 2) assigning a mental health consultant to each department to facilitate Battle Buddies and provide both small group sessions and individual psychological triage/referrals.

Healthcare Workers Starting Peer Support Program Later

Behavioral: MinnRAP Peer Support Program

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Change in professional quality of life [Before peer support program, through study completion (an average of 7 months)]
Professional Quality of Life Questionnaire (proQOL): min score of 10; max score of 50; higher scores mean worse outcome

Secondary Outcome Measures

Change in mental health symptoms and resilience markers [Before peer support program, through study completion (an average of 7 months)]
Stress Risk & Resilience Self-Index: min score 0; max score of 12; higher scores mean worse outcome