Assessment of Stress, Depression and Anxiety in Healthcare Caring for Patients With COVID-19

Completed

• Conditions: Depression
• Interventions: Diagnostic Test: test

• Registration Number: NCT04631497
• Lead Sponsor: Jagiellonian University

Brief Summary

Medical personnel working in the Intensive Care Unit will be examined by means of tests. Their aim is to check how work-related stress in a potentially lethal threat affects the occurrence of depression, stress, anxiety and sleep disorders. We also want to check whether people working in such extremely difficult conditions show no greater interest in death.

Detailed Description

Every day medical staff working in very difficult conditions of intensive care. The COVID-19 virus outbreak has set another difficult task for doctors and nurses who have previously had a lot of contact with the death of their patients. The appearance of the COVID-19 virus and, above all, the inability to effectively treat the infection causes an additional psychological stimulus in medical personnel.

The aim of the study is to assess the occurrence of psychiatric disorders in medical personnel dealing with patients suffering from COVID-19 using various psychological tests.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-07-01
• Study First Submitted: 2020-11-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-11-14
• Study First Posted: 2020-11-17
• Primary Completion: 2021-12-31
• Study Completion: 2021-12-31
• Status Verified: 2022-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-06-02
• Last Update Posted: 2022-06-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 46

Inclusion Criteria

adult employees of the Intensive Care Unit, agreeing to undergo the tests.

Exclusion Criteria

• patient's refusal to participate in the study
• not understanding the test questions

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Healthcare workers	test	The study will cover employees of the Intensive Care Unit - nurses and doctors working with patients with COVID-19 infection. Test takers will be over the age of 18 and under the age of 70, female and male.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Stress	1 month	Perceived Stress Scale (PSS); The PSS predicts both objective biological markers of stress and increased risk for disease among persons with higher perceived stress levels. For example, those with higher scores (suggestive of chronic stress) on the PSS fend worse on biological markers of aging, cortisol levels, immune markers, depression, infectious disease,wound healing, and prostate-specific antigen levels in men. PSS scores are obtained by reversing responses (e.g., 0 = 4, 1 = 3, 2 = 2, 3 = 1 \& 4 = 0) to the four positivelystated items (items 4, 5, 7, \& 8) and then summing across all scale items. A short 4 item scale can be made fromquestions 2, 4, 5 and 10 of the PSS 10 item scale.
Depression	1 month	Beck's test the BDI-II contains 21 questions, each answer being scored on a scale value of 0 to 3. Higher total scores indicate more severe depressive symptoms. The standardized cutoffs used differ from the original: 0-13: minimal depression 14-19: mild depression 20-28: moderate depression 29-63: severe depression
Deal with Stress	1 month	COPE test It is a self-written tool consisting of 60 statements, to which the respondent responds on a 4-point scale. It allows the assessment of 15 strategies for responding to stressful situations.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Stress 2	1 month	the scale of the fascination with death The Death Obsession Scale (DOS) was made by Abdel-Khalek. It was intended to be a main component in the death distress const.ruct: death anxiety, death depression, and death obsession. The DOS assesses a multidimensional trait. It is responded to on a five-point Likert-type rating scale as follows: No (1), A little (2), A fair amount (3), Much (4) and Very much (5). The total score can range from 15 to 75.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Hospital in Cracow; 🇵🇱 Kraków, Poland