The COVID-ICU Healthcare Professional Study

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

484 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-05-06

Study Completion Date

2021-06-04

Brief Summary

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The project is a longitudinal cohort study based on an electronic questionnaire on views and experiences of COVID-ICU Health care professionals during the pandemic. In addition, a few of the informants participating in the cohort study will be asked to participate in focus groups to get a deeper understanding of the experiences of Health care professionals. Leaders at the randomized hospitals will be asked to participate in individualized interviews.

Detailed Description

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Health Care professionals in intensive care units (ICU) are working front-line with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in need of intensive care treatment.

Data collected will identify the health care professionals' (nurses, medical doctors, leaders) views and experiences from the planning period of COVID-19 ICU units until a follow-up at 12 months.Themes to be covered in the survey are organization, information, communication across disciplines, education, practical implementation, use of personal protective equipment, daily working conditions and psychosocial aspects. The Oslo University Hospital/University of Oslo, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliant "TSD"-Services for Sensitive data web-based solution "Nettskjema" will be used combined for consent form and data collection from the survey. It is within the scope of the study to perform sub analysis on background variables as profession related to daily working experiences on COVID-ICU and psychosocial aspects.

A few of the informants (medical doctors, nurses, leaders) participating in the cohort study will randomly (computerized) be asked to participate in focus groups to get a deeper understanding of the experiences of the health care professionals during the pandemic and after the pandemic when they are back to a normal working condition. Leaders at the randomized hospitals will be asked to participate in individualized interviews. Data from the focus group interviews and individual interviews will be taped on a recorder approved by data protection officer at Oslo University Hospital and then stored at a secured computerized research place at Oslo University Hospital.

The gained knowledge from both the survey, the focus group interviews and individual interviews in this study may guide hospital directors and the government in follow up of health care professionals and to prepare for a later pandemic.

Conditions

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COVID-19 Critical Care Intensive Care Units Health Personnel

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

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Views and experiences of health care professionals working in intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic

Health care professionals

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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COVID-ICU Health Care Professionals

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

All health care professionals (nurses, medical doctors, leaders) working in all COVID-ICUs in Norway will be invited to participate in this project.

Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Responsible Party

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Irene Lie

Principal investigator, RN, CCN,PhD

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Irene Lie, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Oslo University Hospital

Locations

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Oslo university hospital

Oslo, , Norway

Site Status

Countries

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Norway

References

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Hovland IS, Skogstad L, Stafseth S, Hem E, Diep LM, Raeder J, Ekeberg O, Lie I. Prevalence of psychological distress in nurses, physicians and leaders working in intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national one-year follow-up study. BMJ Open. 2023 Dec 22;13(12):e075190. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075190.

Reference Type DERIVED

PMID: 38135308 (View on PubMed)

Lie I, Stafseth S, Skogstad L, Hovland IS, Hovde H, Ekeberg O, Raeder J. Healthcare professionals in COVID-19-intensive care units in Norway: preparedness and working conditions: a cohort study. BMJ Open. 2021 Oct 11;11(10):e049135. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049135.