Psychological Impairment Due to Covid-19

Completed

• Conditions: Quality of Life; Psychological Distress
• Interventions: Other: No intervention

• Registration Number: NCT04368312
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Essen

Brief Summary

Hospital staff and emergency personnel are expected to suffer impaired psychological outcomes during a pandemic in terms of Quality of Life, anxiety, depression or other outcomes. The Covid-19 pandemic is a threat for both somatic and psychological health, therefore the impact of the impairment of this event on psychological parameters has to be assessed.

Detailed Description

Hospital staff and emergency personell are confronted with severe and life-threatening situations, therefore this group is considered to be at risk for impaired psychological health. A pandemic such as the Covid-19 endemic is suggested to severely impair the psychological state of this profession, amongst others Quality of life, anxiety, depression and other parameters. Therefore, it is crucial to assess the impact of impairment due to this global threat on the psychological health of health care providers. We therefore designed this study to evaluate baseline psychological characteristics and to re-assess those values in an interval of 60 days.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-04-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-04-28
• Study First Posted: 2020-04-29
• Study Start: 2020-05-06
• Primary Completion: 2020-09-30
• Study Completion: 2020-12-30
• Status Verified: 2021-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-05-05
• Last Update Posted: 2021-05-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

Hospital staff (doctors and nurses)

Exclusion Criteria

None

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Health care providers/hospital staff	No intervention	The targeted group are doctors and nurses (hospital stuff) of a large university hospital directly confronted with patients with Cov-19

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
PCL5 Questionnaire	14 days	Validated 20-items questionnaire for PTSD
BSI - Brief symptom inventory	14 days	The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) is a 53-item screener for mental health problems with 9 subscales.
PHQD	14 days	Instrument for psychological diagnostics, able to test the severity of mental disorders and the success of their treatment
WHO - QoL BREF	14 days	Qol Questionnaire, assessed QoL with respect to the individual's perceptions in the context of culture and value systems.
STAXI	14 days	The State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory is used to measure the expressions \& control of anger
AUDIT questionnaire	14 days	The AUDIT questionnaire is designed to help in the self assessment of alcohol consumption

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Hospital Essen; 🇩🇪 Essen, NRW, Germany