Clinical trial NCT04918160: Evaluation of the Sanitary Safety of a Healthcare Professional Conference Held 9-11 June 2021 in Paris
Official title: Evaluation of the Sanitary Safety of the French Intensive Care Society Annual Meeting Held From June 9th to June 11th 2021 at the Paris Congress Centre
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Covid19
Lead sponsor: French Society for Intensive Care
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-06-08
Enrollment: 711
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Two cohorts of healthy volunteers will be followed during 21 days after the French Intensive Care Society annual meeting. A first cohort, Conference Attendees cohort, constituted of volunteering healthcare practitioners (medical doctor, nurse, nurse assistant, physiotherapist and psychotherapist) attending the FICS annual congress. The second cohort, Control cohort, will gather volunteering healthcare practitioners (medical doctor, nurse, nurse assistant, physiotherapist and psychotherapist) who dit not attend the FICS annual congress, recruited in the same medical departments as the Conference Attendees participants.

Brief summary: The COVID-SRLF study will evaluate the sanitary safety of the French Intensive Care Society (FICS) annual meeting held in Paris Congress Center from June 9th to June 11th 2021 in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-2019) pandemic situation. The primary objective is to determine the proportion of attendees with a positive antigenic COVID-19 screening test at day 7 (+/- 1) of their participation to the meeting. This rate will be compared to a cohort of health care professionals (medical doctors and paramedical professionals) from the same hospital ward as the attendees but who did not attend the meeting (stratified on centers, gender, age (\< and \>= 40 years, vaccination status (0, 1 or 2 doses) and socio-professional status (medical doctor, nurse, nurse assistant).


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Healthcare professional healthy volunteer
* Absence of COVID-19 symptoms in the 2 weeks prior to inclusion
* Not being a COVID-19 contact case in the 2 weeks prior to inclusion
* Participation to at least one day of the FICS annual meeting (June 9-11 2021)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Non-healthcare professional (exhibitors, congress center employees)
* Refusal to participate to the study
* Person under legal protection
* Absence of social security affiliation

Primary outcomes:
measure: Conference attendees COVID-19 prevalence at D7
timeFrame: Day 7 of the last day of the meeting (June 18th, 2021)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Controls COVID-19 prevalence at D7
timeFrame: Day 7 of the last day of the meeting (June 18th, 2021)
measure: Proportion of conference attendees with COVID-19 symptoms at D21
timeFrame: Day 21 of the last day of the congress (July 2, 2021)
measure: Proportion of conference attendees with COVID-19-related medical consultation at D21
timeFrame: Day 21 of the last day of the congress (July 2, 2021)
measure: Proportion of conference attendees with COVID-19-related emergency department visit at D21
timeFrame: Day 21 of the last day of the congress (July 2, 2021)
measure: Proportion of conference attendees with COVID-19-related hospitalisation at D21
timeFrame: Day 21 of the last day of the congress (July 2, 2021)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Paris
country: France
facility: Centre des Congres
Study officials:
affiliation: French Society for Intensive Care
name: Eric Maury, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: SRLF Trial Group. Sanitary safety of the 2021 French Intensive Care Society medical conference: a case/control study. Ann Intensive Care. 2022 Feb 11;12(1):11. doi: 10.1186/s13613-022-00986-x.