COVID-19 Pandemic and Small Businesses in the Health Care Sector - Work Environment, Health and Economy of Swedish Chiropractors and Naprapaths
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 703
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Work environment
研究概览
简要总结
This observational study will follow the chiropractors and naprapaths in Sweden to study how work environment, health, and economy is changing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
详细描述
All manual therapists that are members of a professional organization in Sweden will be invited to participate. The study started in November 2020 with follow-ups planned after 3,6 and 12 months.
All data-collection is taking place with digital questionnaires.
There are three main areas of interest:
- Work environment (knowledge about viral contageon, protection, availability of protective measures, disturbances in care for patients)
- Health (physical and psychological, how many caught the virus?)
- Economy (income, costs, turnover)
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 20 Years 至 65 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Chiropractor or naprapath working in Sweden
- •clinically active
- •belonging to a professional organization
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Work environment
时间窗: 12 months
Changes in routines according to the pandemic This includes systematic work environment routines, cleaning, wearing protective gear, not treating patients belonging to certain risk categories, changing appointment scheduling etc. There are no validated questionnaires to examine these concepts, as we have not experienced a pandemic in modern times, so the questions are constructed by the research group.
Psychological Health -depression
时间窗: 12 months
Depression assessed with DASS-21
Physical Health -Pain
时间窗: 12 months
Physical pain using the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire
Psychological Health -sleep
时间窗: 12 months
Sleep will be assessed using Karolinska Sleep Questionnaire.
Economy
时间窗: 12 months
Changes in company turnover. For clinic owners, this measure is assessing income and cost, estimated by clinic owners, There are no validated questionnaires to examine these concepts, as we have not experienced a pandemic in modern times, so the questions are constructed by the research group.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Iben Axen
Associate Professor
Karolinska Institutet