Emotional Burden of Healthcare Professionals and Covid Infection 19

• Conditions: Emotionnal Distress; COVID-19

• Registration Number: NCT04350099
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Limoges

Brief Summary

COVID-19 ( known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)) has a highly polymorphic clinical presentation, ranging from pauci-symptomatic infection to severe, potentially complicated forms with acute respiratory distress syndrome or multisystemic organs failure. The picture may be initially severe, or it may progress in two stages, with worsening 7 to 10 days after the first symptoms with an overall case-fatality rate of 3 to 4%.

Its management is essentially symptomatic, as no antiviral treatment has so far demonstrated a clinical benefit in this condition.

In such a context, healthcare professionals assigned to COVID units will be faced with a heavy workload and emotional burden that could lead to psychological suffering or even burnout and its consequences.

We would therefore like to describe, using validated tools, the emotional evolution of the care workers at the Limoges University Hospital and the Esquirol University Hospital faced with this new pandemic infection. An initial and end-of-study evaluation of the caregivers will be carried out concerning their anxiety and depressive state, their personal capacity for resilience and their degree of empathy

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2020-04
• Study First Submitted: 2020-04-11
• Study Start: 2020-04-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-04-15
• Study First Posted: 2020-04-16
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-01-11
• Last Update Posted: 2021-01-13
• Primary Completion: 2021-02-15
• Study Completion: 2021-06-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

• Health professional working in a COVID unit
• For the qualitative study: 24 participant selected at random to be interviewed

Exclusion Criteria

• Refusal to participate

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
anxiety	3 month	Assessing the anxiety of health professionals using Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD-7) scale.; Scores of 5, 10, and 15 are taken as the cut-off points for mild, moderate and severe anxiety, respectively.

Trial Locations

Locations (3)

CH Esquirol; 🇫🇷 Limoges, France

CHU de Limoges; 🇫🇷 Limoges, France

HCL LYON; 🇫🇷 Lyon, France