Swiss Cohort of Health Professionals and Informal Caregivers

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

6000 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 "a person in the immediate entourage of an individual whose health and/or autonomy is impaired and who requires assistance with certain \[basic or instrumental\] activities of daily living. The IC provides the person, on a non-professional and informal basis, and on a regular basis, with assistance, care or presence services of varying nature and intensity, designed to compensate for their incapacities or difficulties or to ensure their safety, identity and social ties". 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.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Healthcare Professional Informal Caregiver

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 is used to collect data, at recruitment and follow-up once a year. For the ICs, paper questionnaire will be provided upon request.

Qualitative Interviews

Intervention Type OTHER

Remote focus groups or semi-structured interviews will be proposed to a subsample of the participants, first in 2025 and then every two years

Informal caregivers

All type of informal caregivers (ICs), aged 18 and over, assisting a person for health reasons across Switzerland

Electronic surveys

Intervention Type OTHER

Online questionnaires is used to collect data, at recruitment and follow-up once a year. For the ICs, paper questionnaire will be provided upon request.

Qualitative Interviews

Intervention Type OTHER

Remote focus groups or semi-structured interviews will be proposed to a subsample of the participants, first in 2025 and then every two years

Interventions

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Electronic surveys

Online questionnaires is used to collect data, at recruitment and follow-up once a year. For the ICs, paper questionnaire will be provided upon request.

Intervention Type OTHER

Qualitative Interviews

Remote focus groups or semi-structured interviews will be proposed to a subsample of the participants, first in 2025 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

* Being informal cargiver
* Aged 18 and over (adults)

Exclusion Criteria

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

* Unable to read or speak in one of the national languages: German, French, Italian

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No