Impact of Covid-19 on mental health among health care workers.

Phase 3

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Doctors and nurses

• Registration Number: CTRI/2020/10/028524

Brief Summary

In this COVID era, professionals who work for extended amounts of time with patients with previous traumas are prone to experiencing secondary trauma. It is important to recognise and remedying of secondary trauma in health care professionals, as well as identifying the important risk factors for future research.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-01-12
• Last Update Posted: 2020-10-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 632

Inclusion Criteria

• The health care worker (frontline health worker / back ground health worker) wish to participate and able to further share the survey links in social groups.
• Participant should know how to use social network groups (what’s-app and email).

Exclusion Criteria

The participants fail to submit their survey with in the set time duration of six months (December 2020 to May 2020).

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1.To study the differences in secondary traumas experienced by the frontline workers (doctors and nurses working with COVID-19 patients) and by the background health care professionals( doctors and nurses working with non –COVID-19 patients).	6 months
Our results aim to help in the early recognition and remedying of secondary trauma in health care professionals, as well as identifying the important risk factors for future research.	6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To study the differences in secondary traumas experienced by the frontline workers (doctors and nurses working with COVID-19 patients) and by the background health care professionals( doctors and nurses working with non –COVID-19 patients).	Our results aim to help in the early recognition and remedying of secondary trauma in health care professionals, as well as identifying the important risk factors for future research.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

IGMC Shimla; 🇮🇳 Shimla, HIMACHAL PRADESH, India

IGMC Shimla

🇮🇳Shimla, HIMACHAL PRADESH, India

Dr Shabnum Thakur

Principal investigator

9459830966

thakurshabnum7@gmail.com