Impact of Pandemic COVID-19 on Surgical Specialities Residents in Italy
- Conditions
- COVID
- Registration Number
- NCT04338945
- Lead Sponsor
- Piazza della Vittoria 14 Studio Medico - Ginecologia e Ostetricia
- Brief Summary
The Coronavirus Emergency has severely affected Italian Healthcare National System. This event made it necessary to adopt extraordinary containment measures and to allocate extraordinary resources in Italian hospitals. In many centers routinely elective surgical activity has been decreased or even completely abolished. We believe that this exceptional condition is being consequently having a significant impact on surgical training programs.
- Detailed Description
Purpose of this investigation, organized by the Italian Polispecialistic Society of Young Surgeons (S.P.I.G.C.), is to establish the impact of COVID-19 emergency in the work and training activities of Italian surgical residents.
There will be collected the residents' impressions by completing a survey on this topic. A sub-analysis for each pandemic wave (first, second, third) will be done.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 800
- Residents in the following surgical specialities: cardiothoracic surgery, colon and rectal surgery, general surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, gynecologic oncology, neurological surgery, ophthalmic surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthopaedic surgery, otorhinolaryngology, pediatric surgery, plastic and maxillofacial surgery, urology, and vascular surgery
- Undergratuated and postgraduated students
- Consultants in surgical areas
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Measure of the impact of first wave of COVID Pandemic on surgical specialist training programs 1-3 months after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers
Measure of the impact of second wave of COVID Pandemic on surgical specialist training programs 1 year after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers
Measure of the impact of third wave of COVID Pandemic on surgical specialist training programs 2 years after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Measure of impact of second wave of COVID Pandemic on wellness of residents 1 year after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers
Measure of impact of third wave of COVID Pandemic on wellness of residents 2 years after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers
Measure of impact of first wave of COVID Pandemic on wellness of residents 1-3 months after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers
Trial Locations
- Locations (7)
U.O.C. Chirurgia Generale Universitaria "V. Bonomo"
🇮🇹Bari, Italy
Ospedale Perrino Asl Brindisi
🇮🇹Brindisi, Italy
Dipartimento di scienze mediche e chirurgiche, Università di Catanzaro
🇮🇹Catanzaro, Italy
Ospedale Policlinico San Martino
🇮🇹Genova, Italy
Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo-Forlanini
🇮🇹Roma, Italy
IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli
🇮🇹Roma, Italy
Ospedale Cristo re
🇮🇹Roma, Italy
U.O.C. Chirurgia Generale Universitaria "V. Bonomo"🇮🇹Bari, Italy