Online Multi-component Psychological Intervention for Healthcare Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic
NCT ID: NCT04890665
Last Updated: 2021-10-05
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42 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2021-07-16
2022-06-20
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Due to the current restrictions derived from the pandemic, psychological digital interventions have been an effective option to overcome barriers in mental health care for this population. Likewise, this type of intervention can provide various benefits, such as carried out by different means and the efficacy that they have shown to treat a wide range of mental health problems.
The objective of this study is to carry out a randomized clinical trial through a web platform which will have two groups: 1) Self-applied intervention directed at health personnel from all over Mexico for the reduction of symptoms of anxiety, depression, burnout, stress, compassion fatigue and increased self-care, quality of sleep and perceived quality of life, as well as how to offer tools to acquire knowledge about how to notify bad news to patients and families. The contents of the online intervention will be implemented through a responsive web application. In order to create the most fitted intervention for the real needs of the participants will be created following the principles of User Experience, this ensuring that the design characteristics of the tool will meet the desired requirements to be perceived as easy to use, attractive and useful. The User Experience approach refers to the experience that a user has with a product, with special emphasis on human-product interaction.
2\) The same intervention but implemented by a therapist via Zoom, Skype, or Teams to continue ensuring protection measures for both the therapist and the patient.
The subjective measures will include the following Psychometric instruments:
1. Post-traumatic diagnostic scale
2. Plutchik Suicide Risk Scale
3. Generalized Anxiety Scale.
4. The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale-Revised
5. Professional Quality of Life Measure
6. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
7. Scale for measuring resilience with Mexicans
8. Appraisal of Self-care Agency
9. The Fear of COVID-19 Scale
10. Opinion on the treatment.
11. System usability scale
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
SINGLE
Study Groups
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Experimental: Self-applied psychological intervention for healthcare workers
Participants in this group will receive 9 sessions of a multi-component psychological intervention focused on the reduction of symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, fatigue compassion, and post-traumatic stress, and the increase of the quality of sleep and perception of the quality of life. The participants will have the option to do 3 extra modules that are complimentary for the intervention.
Online psychological intervention for healthcare workers
The intervention is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Behavioral Activation Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Psychology, aimed at the Psychoeducation regarding the manifestations of anxiety, depression, burnout, fatigue compassion, posttraumatic stress disorder, and affectations in sleep quality and perception of life quality in healthcare workers.
And 3 complementary modules that according to the scientific literature could affect the mental health of healthcare workers related to how to deliver bad health news, Psychological first aid and how beliefs could influence physical and emotional self-care in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Control: Self-applied psychological intervention for healthcare workers
The participants in this group will receive exactly the same intervention but delivered through a therapist in a weekly session through an online video call. The participants will be informed also about the 3 extra modules and briefly what it is the contents of these modules so they can accept or not receive these extra contents.
Online psychological intervention for healthcare workers
The intervention is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Behavioral Activation Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Psychology, aimed at the Psychoeducation regarding the manifestations of anxiety, depression, burnout, fatigue compassion, posttraumatic stress disorder, and affectations in sleep quality and perception of life quality in healthcare workers.
And 3 complementary modules that according to the scientific literature could affect the mental health of healthcare workers related to how to deliver bad health news, Psychological first aid and how beliefs could influence physical and emotional self-care in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Interventions
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Online psychological intervention for healthcare workers
The intervention is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Behavioral Activation Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Psychology, aimed at the Psychoeducation regarding the manifestations of anxiety, depression, burnout, fatigue compassion, posttraumatic stress disorder, and affectations in sleep quality and perception of life quality in healthcare workers.
And 3 complementary modules that according to the scientific literature could affect the mental health of healthcare workers related to how to deliver bad health news, Psychological first aid and how beliefs could influence physical and emotional self-care in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* To have a valid email address.
* To have basic digital skills in the use of an operational system and internet browsing.
* To understand Spanish since all the contents are in this language.
* Symptoms of anxiety, depression, burnout, and fatigue compassion
Exclusion Criteria
* To be receiving psychological and/or pharmacological treatment during the study
* Moderate to a high score on the suicide scale
* Recent attempt of suicide (3 months)
* To refuse to accept to participate
18 Years
65 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez
OTHER
University of Guadalajara
OTHER
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
OTHER
Universidad Internacional del Ecuador
OTHER
University of Buenos Aires
OTHER
University of Valencia
OTHER
Universidad Internacional de Valencia
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Anabel de la Rosa Gómez, PhD
Role: STUDY_CHAIR
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Paulina Erika Herdoiza Arroyo, PhD
Role: STUDY_CHAIR
Universidad Internacional del Ecuador
Rosa Olimpia Castellanos Vargas, MD
Role: STUDY_CHAIR
Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez
Joaquín Mateu Molla, PhD
Role: STUDY_CHAIR
Valencian International University
Luis Farfallini, PhD
Role: STUDY_CHAIR
University of Buenos Aires
Eduardo Bautista Valerio, BD
Role: STUDY_CHAIR
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Locations
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Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Universidad de Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
México, , Mexico
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Facility Contacts
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Document Type: Informed Consent Form
Other Identifiers
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VIU-Health_care_workers_COVID
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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