Emotional Intelligence Skills Health Leaders Need During Covid-19

NCT ID: NCT04694014

Last Updated: 2021-01-05

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

20 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-10-15

Study Completion Date

2021-06-30

Brief Summary

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Problem The study will address the problem that no studies have established the Emotional Intelligence (EI) skills required by leaders and managers to engage frontline healthcare professionals in crisis situation like Covid19 in Kenya Purpose The purpose of the qualitative exploratory study is to identify the EI skills Leaders and managers need to engage Frontline Healthcare Professionals in Crisis.

The Research Question is:

What are the EI skills leaders and managers need to engage frontline healthcare professionals (FHP) during crisis situations such as the Covid19 pandemic?

Detailed Description

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Hypothesis The Study hypothesis that Leaders and managers with appropriate emotional intelligence skills will engage frontline healthcare professionals in crisis situations resulting in desired outcomes Data Collection The data collection will start with a primer survey on surveymonkey.com, behavioral and cognitive assessments through The Predictive Index, emotional intelligence competence assessments through emco4.com, followed by semi-structured face to face or virtual interviews with the participants. The Survey data, Assessments and the transcribed semi-structured interviews will be depersonalized and made available for subsequent researchers. The Videos if any will be destroyed three years after transcription.

Participants The 20 Participants will be selected from the population. The Study population is the number of experienced frontline healthcare professionals working in Busia County of Kenya. The County Department of Health will help in recruiting participants from doctors, nurses, and other frontline healthcare professionals.

Data Analysis The Data will be analyzed using DiscoverText.com cloud-based platform applying two rounds of coding: first in Vivo coding will be applied then prior codes will be enforced. The Vivo codes will be in the participant's word and voice. Eight priori codes will be adopted from EI literature.

Societal Benefits Society needs healthcare professionals to deal with crisis situations that place them in imperilment. The leaders have constraints of resources, time and advanced knowledge. This study seeks to seek out EI skills that will enable leaders to engage healthcare professionals while recognizing the humanity in them.

Conditions

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Emotional Intelligence Leadership Health Personnel Attitude Covid-19

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Emotional Intelligence Skills study among frontline HCW managing Covid19 in Busia Kenya

Researchers from Alupe University College will select study participants as follows 6 Clinical officers, 2 nurses, 1 nutritionist, 1 lab technician, 2 lab technologists, 7 members on the sub county surveillance Matayos, Teso north and Bunyala 2 from UHC office

EI Open ended Pre-Survey and Semi Structured Interview

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Provide Interview questions via online survey with informed consent to the participants then contact a 60 minute member checking interview in person or virtually via recorded Zoom sessions for each participant

Behavioral and Cognitive Assessment

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Use Predictive index for both cognitive and behavioral assessment of the paticipants

Geneva Emotional Competence Test (GECO)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Administer the Geneva Emotional Competence Test to each participant

Interventions

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EI Open ended Pre-Survey and Semi Structured Interview

Provide Interview questions via online survey with informed consent to the participants then contact a 60 minute member checking interview in person or virtually via recorded Zoom sessions for each participant

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral and Cognitive Assessment

Use Predictive index for both cognitive and behavioral assessment of the paticipants

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Geneva Emotional Competence Test (GECO)

Administer the Geneva Emotional Competence Test to each participant

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Experience frontline healthcare professionals working in Busia County of Kenya

Exclusion Criteria

* None healthcare professionals
* healthcare professionals not working in Busia county
Minimum Eligible Age

25 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

67 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Alupe University College

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

African Wood Inc

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Fabian Esamai, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Alupe University College

William Okedi, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Alupe University College

David F AMAKOBE, DBA

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

W500G Inc - Contract Research Organization

Locations

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Alupe University College

Busia, , Kenya

Site Status

Countries

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Kenya

References

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Boyatzis RE. The Behavioral Level of Emotional Intelligence and Its Measurement. Front Psychol. 2018 Aug 13;9:1438. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01438. eCollection 2018.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 30150958 (View on PubMed)

Roth G, Vansteenkiste M, Ryan RM. Integrative emotion regulation: Process and development from a self-determination theory perspective. Dev Psychopathol. 2019 Aug;31(3):945-956. doi: 10.1017/S0954579419000403. Epub 2019 May 22.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 31113502 (View on PubMed)

Ng JY, Ntoumanis N, Thogersen-Ntoumani C, Deci EL, Ryan RM, Duda JL, Williams GC. Self-Determination Theory Applied to Health Contexts: A Meta-Analysis. Perspect Psychol Sci. 2012 Jul;7(4):325-40. doi: 10.1177/1745691612447309.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 26168470 (View on PubMed)

Brackett MA, Salovey P. Measuring emotional intelligence with the Mayer-Salovery-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT). Psicothema. 2006;18 Suppl:34-41.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 17295955 (View on PubMed)

Schlegel K, Mortillaro M. The Geneva Emotional Competence Test (GECo): An ability measure of workplace emotional intelligence. J Appl Psychol. 2019 Apr;104(4):559-580. doi: 10.1037/apl0000365. Epub 2018 Oct 22.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 30346195 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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IREC/2020/143 AN0003667W500G

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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