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

NCT ID: NCT04358640

Last Updated: 2020-12-19

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

1784 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-04-09

Study Completion Date

2020-04-27

Brief Summary

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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

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Critical Illness Sars-CoV2 SARS Pneumonia Coronavirus Infection Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Employees of Nîmes University Hospital (France)

Employees of Nîmes University Hospital (France)

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Employees of CHU Nîmes during COVID-19 pandemic
* Approved to participate

Exclusion Criteria

• Participation refusal
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Intensive care unit CHU Nimes

Nîmes, , France

Site Status

Countries

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France

References

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Brooks SK, Webster RK, Smith LE, Woodland L, Wessely S, Greenberg N, Rubin GJ. The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence. Lancet. 2020 Mar 14;395(10227):912-920. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30460-8. Epub 2020 Feb 26.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 32112714 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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LOCAL COVID 2019/JYL-01)

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id