Distress and resilience of healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic
- Conditions
- Individual resilience and work sense of coherence and the development of mental symptoms during a pandemic scenarioNot Applicable
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN13694948
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity Hospital of Bern
- Brief Summary
2020 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32737101/ protocol (added 04/08/2020) 2022 Preprint results in https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.900303/abstract psychological health results (added 21/06/2022) 2022 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35627590/ Work-related sense of coherence results (added 21/06/2022) 2022 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35846720/ (added 19/07/2022)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 520
1. Healthcare professionals
2. >18 years of age
3. Willing to participate
Does not meet inclusion criteria
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method COVID-19 Anxiety (adapted SARS-Anxiety-Scale) at 3 time periods of 2 weeks over 6 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method At 3 time periods of 2 weeks over 6 months:<br>1. Contamination anxiety (PVS) <br>2. Anxiety to get infected at work measured with a single generated Item («I am afraid I will become infected with COVID-19 while on the job») on a visual analog scale from «0 = Not at all» to «10 = Extremely»<br>3. Depression (PHQ-9)<br>4. Traumatic Stress (IES-6)<br>5. Work Coherence (Work-SoC)<br><br>Qualitative measures:<br>6. Influence of resilience and work sense of coherence on the development of anxiety, depression and trauma stress disorder in frontliners during pandemic outbreak measured using structured interview.