Evaluation of Emergency Department (ED) Staff Stress Level During COVID-19 Pandemic

Completed

• Conditions: Emergency Department Staff's Level of Stress; Emergency Department Staff During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Interventions: Other: stress and anxiety questionnaire

• Registration Number: NCT04383886
• Lead Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon

Brief Summary

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Emergency Department (ED) are in front line for the reception of patients presenting COVID-19 symptoms and have to face a new situation given the expected number of patients. Staff participate in suspect patients triage, in the diagnosis and the management of Covid-19 patients, having to follow the instructions and recommendations that evolve in real time, depending on the stage, resources and means available. This situation requires that the staff immediately adaptation within this reorganization and redeployment of the activity. Then; they are subject to many stress and anxiety factors such as:

* Increased activity: massive influx of patients, overload of work, lack of material and human resources

* Modification of practices: training in procedures, measures isolation and prevention of contamination of other patients, replacement by professionals reassigned from other departments

* Ethical dilemma: decisions to be made in an emergency, patient prioritization

* Numerous, evolving information, from various sources and sometimes contradictory (national, governance, service, media)

* Individual: fear of personal contamination and of those close to you, personal organization in a situation of confinement of the population, loss of usual social support

* Anxiety and stress management of patients and relatives, their entourage and colleagues In this study, it is proposed to study the psychic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department staff.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-04-18
• Study First Submitted: 2020-05-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-05-08
• Study First Posted: 2020-05-12
• Primary Completion: 2020-09-12
• Study Completion: 2020-09-12
• Status Verified: 2023-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-04-05
• Last Update Posted: 2023-04-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 247

Inclusion Criteria

• Adults
• medical and paramedical staff working the the emergency room permanently or specifically during the COVID19 pandemic
• not opposed to participate to this study

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Exclusion Criteria

• Staff under legal protection
• refusing to participate

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Emergency department staff	stress and anxiety questionnaire	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change of emergency department staff's level of stress during the covid19 pandemic, measured using the Chamoux et Simard visual analogic scale	Every 15 days from baseline to 3 months	The level of stress will be measured using the Chamoux et Simard visual analogic scale. This scale is composed of 3 subscales evaluating the stress level at work, at home and in the life in general. Each scale are rating from 0 to 10, 0 being the absence of stress and 10 the highest level of stress ever experienced a cotation at each scale greater than 6 will defined the presence of a stress.

Trial Locations

Locations (5)

Service d'accueil des urgences, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices Civlis de Lyon; 🇫🇷 Lyon, France

SAMU Hospices Civils de Lyon; 🇫🇷 Lyon, France

Service d'accueil des urgences, Hôpital Lyon Sud, Hospices Civils de Lyon; 🇫🇷 Pierre-Bénite, France

Service d'accueil des urgences, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Hospices Civils de Lyon; 🇫🇷 Lyon, France

Hôpital de Villefranche-sur-Saône; 🇫🇷 Villefranche-sur-Saône, France