Swiss Cohort of Health Professionals and Informal Caregivers

NCT ID: NCT05571488

Last Updated: 2023-12-22

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

1500 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-10-01

Study Completion Date

2026-12-31

Brief Summary

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The healthcare system is continuously evolving to adapt to the population's needs, both in terms of healthcare practices, and in financial and organizational aspects. The current COVID-19 pandemic has added additional pressure to the healthcare system and shown its limits in terms of preparedness. It has also shown once again that both healthcare professionals (HCPs) and informal caregivers (ICs) play a central role for the functioning of the healthcare system.

An increasing number of studies are alerting on HCPs' situation, regarding their physical and mental health (e.g. emotional exhaustion, professional well-being) on the one hand, and the functioning of the healthcare system (e.g. absenteeism, turnover, career change) on the other hand.

Besides healthcare professionals, ICs, defined as individuals providing non-professional care on a regular basis to people in need of care, play an important role in fulfilling the daily needs of the most vulnerable individuals. While doing the latter, caring for others has shown to have negative impact on the ICs' life, in terms of health-related implications, psychological burden, quality of life, etc. Despite being increasingly recognized as having a key role in the provision of care, they have only been limitedly considered in studies on healthcare professionals.

In that context, the investigators develop SCOHPICA project, the Swiss cohort of healthcare professionals and informal caregivers, which is an open prospective national cohort using a concurrent embedded mixed method design. This project targets all types of HCPs and ICs, and will investigate determinants of intent to stay and well-being according to participants' trajectories.

As the ICs' study launch is planned in 2024, in depth details of this part of the project will be added to the registration once this part of the study will be definitely planned.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Healthcare Professional Informal Caregiver

Keywords

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Healthcare Professional Health Professional Health Care Professional Informal Caregiver Informal Carer Cohort Switzerland Health Personnel

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Healthcare professionals

All type of healthcare professionals (HCPs), working in a variety of settings and across Switzerland

Electronic surveys

Intervention Type OTHER

Online questionnaires will be used to collect data, at recruitment and follow-up once a year

Qualitative Interviews

Intervention Type OTHER

Remote focus groups or semi-structured interviews will be proposed to a subsample of the participants, first the year after recruitment and then every two years

Informal caregivers

All type of informal caregivers (ICs), assisting a person for health reasons across Switzerland

Electronic surveys

Intervention Type OTHER

Online questionnaires will be used to collect data, at recruitment and follow-up once a year

Qualitative Interviews

Intervention Type OTHER

Remote focus groups or semi-structured interviews will be proposed to a subsample of the participants, first the year after recruitment and then every two years

Interventions

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Electronic surveys

Online questionnaires will be used to collect data, at recruitment and follow-up once a year

Intervention Type OTHER

Qualitative Interviews

Remote focus groups or semi-structured interviews will be proposed to a subsample of the participants, first the year after recruitment and then every two years

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Working as HCP, in any profession
* Taking care of patients currently and actively
* Working in any health work setting
* Working as an independent or a salaried
* Working in Switzerland

Exclusion Criteria

* Being retired at baseline
* Unable to read or speak in one of the national languages: German, French, Italian
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Institut et Haute Ecole de la Santé la Source

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Lausanne Hospitals

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisante), University of Lausanne, Switzerland

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux

Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux, MD, DSc, MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Unisanté

Locations

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Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisante), University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Lausanne, , Switzerland

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Switzerland

Central Contacts

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Study coordinator

Role: CONTACT

Phone: +41 21 314 77 25

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Study coordinator

Role: primary

Related Links

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http://www.scohpica.ch

SCOHPICA website

Other Identifiers

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SCOHPICA_2022

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id