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

NCT ID: NCT04371302

Last Updated: 2021-10-08

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: TERMINATED
• Total Enrollment: 145 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-05-01
• Study Completion Date: 2020-06-30

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.

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.

Conditions

Burnout, Professional; Medical Errors; Depression

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

Intensive Care Unit nurses

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

Questionnaire

Intervention Type: DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

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

Interventions

Questionnaire

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

Intervention Type: DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. All nurses currently serving in the ICU, Sungai Buloh Hospital

Exclusion Criteria

1. Subjects who refuse to participate

2. Subjects working in ICU, Sungai Buloh Hospital, for less than 1 month

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Malaya

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Samuel E H Tsan, MD, BMedSc

Doctor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Sungai Buloh Hospital

Kuala Lumpur, , Malaysia

Countries

Malaysia

Other Identifiers

54843

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id