COVID-19 Psychological Wellbeing for Healthcare Students

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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We have developed an online learning resource designed to support healthcare staff during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This resource has been produced in anticipation of the psychological effect of working during this time. This is an open access, free, online resource available here: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_22794 It is designed to be relevant for healthcare staff, and we are evaluating it now with healthcare students as our next generation of healthcare staff. We are interested in knowing more about your views of healthcare students towards this package. This will help us to determine its value as a learning resource to support psychological wellbeing in healthcare students, alongside other welfare supports. The aim is to describe the views of healthcare students towards an e-learning package developed in response to COVID-19 on Psychological Wellbeing for Healthcare Workers.

Detailed Description
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The investigators aim to: gather insight into the emotional highs and lows of being a healthcare student during the pandemic identify any facilitators, obstacles or barriers to accessing the e-package. identify perceptions of healthcare students towards the value of the e-package during and after the COVID19 pandemic. establish recommendations for longer-term support for psychological wellbeing in healthcare students. Qualitative interviews will be conducted with up to 45 purposively sampled healthcare students who have accessed the e-learning resource. The interview will be semi-structured and include a measure of mental wellbeing (Warwick-Edinburgh Wellbeing Scale, 14-item - license received), and single items measures of job stressfulness, job satisfaction, presenteeism, turnover intentions and work engagement. Findings will inform future supportive interventions for healthcare students.

Official Title
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PoWerS Study: Psychological Wellbeing for Healthcare Students: Evaluation of a COVID-19 Digital Learning Package

Conditions
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Psychological Wellbeing

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: COVID-19 e-package: Psychological wellbeing for healthcare workers


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion criteria: Healthcare students (e.g. any students who are registered on a healthcare course). Ability to give informed consent. Ability to attend an individual interview (remotely). Exclusion criteria: • Not a registered healthcare student.
Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Interventional Model Description: All students have access to the COVID-19 educational package to support psychological wellbeing in healthcare students (usual practice). In this study the investigators will conduct semi-structured qualitative interviews with healthcare students about their mental wellbeing, and use of this e-package.
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: e-package: psychological wellbeing for healthcare workers<br>A COVID-19 educational package on psychological wellbeing for healthcare workers, accessible to all healthcare students. | Other: COVID-19 e-package: Psychological wellbeing for healthcare workers<br>* All healthcare students have access to a COVID-19 educational learning package around psychological wellbeing (usual practice). In this study the investigators will conduct semi-structured qualitative interviews with healthcare students about their mental wellbeing, and use of this e-package.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Qualitative Interviews with Healthcare Students | Users of the e-package | Once per study, telephone interview (during a 6-week interview period) | 
| Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale | 14-item scale to measure mental wellbeing. Total scores range from 14 to 70 and higher scores indicate greater positive mental wellbeing. | Baseline | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Single Item Measure of Global Job Stressfulness (Houdmont et al, 2019) | Single-item measure. Scores range from 1 to 5 and higher scores indicated greater job stressfulness. | Baseline | 
| Single Item Global Job Satisfaction Measure (Dolbier et al, 2005) | Single-item measure. Scores range from 1 to 5 and higher scores indicated greater job satisfaction. | Baseline | 
| Single Item Measure of Presenteeism (Aronsson & Gustafsson, 2004) | Single-item measure. Scores range from 1 to 4, with higher scores indicating greater presenteeism. | Baseline | 
| Single Item Measure of Turnover intentions | Single-item measure. Scored 1=no intent to leave, 2=intent to leave | Baseline | 
| Work Engagement (Shaufeli et al, 2006) | Dedication subscale of the 9-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (3 items will be used: 2, 3 and 4). Scores range from 0 to 6, with higher scores indicating greater work engagement. | Baseline |