Clinical trial NCT04694014: Emotional Intelligence Skills Health Leaders Need During Covid-19
Official title: Emotional Intelligence Skills Leaders and Managers Need to Engage Frontline Healthcare Professionals During Covid-19 Pandemic
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Emotional Intelligence
Leadership
Health Personnel Attitude
Covid-19
Lead sponsor: African Wood Inc
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Alupe University College
First posted: 2021-01-05
Enrollment: 20
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 25
Maximum age (years): 67
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Experienced healthcare professionals practicing in Busia County Kenya. Their experience, knowledge, and insights in the interface between leaders and frontline healthcare workers will be very helpful to society at large. The 20 Participants will be selected from the population. The Study population is the number of experienced frontline healthcare professionals working in Busia County of Kenya. The County Department of Health will help in recruiting participants from doctors, nurses, and other frontline healthcare professionals

Brief summary: Problem The study will address the problem that no studies have established the Emotional Intelligence (EI) skills required by leaders and managers to engage frontline healthcare professionals in crisis situation like Covid19 in Kenya Purpose The purpose of the qualitative exploratory study is to identify the EI skills Leaders and managers need to engage Frontline Healthcare Professionals in Crisis.

The Research Question is:

What are the EI skills leaders and managers need to engage frontline healthcare professionals (FHP) during crisis situations such as the Covid19 pandemic?

Detailed description: Hypothesis The Study hypothesis that Leaders and managers with appropriate emotional intelligence skills will engage frontline healthcare professionals in crisis situations resulting in desired outcomes Data Collection The data collection will start with a primer survey on surveymonkey.com, behavioral and cognitive assessments through The Predictive Index, emotional intelligence competence assessments through emco4.com, followed by semi-structured face to face or virtual interviews with the participants. The Survey data, Assessments and the transcribed semi-structured interviews will be depersonalized and made available for subsequent researchers. The Videos if any will be destroyed three years after transcription.

Participants The 20 Participants will be selected from the population. The Study population is the number of experienced frontline healthcare professionals working in Busia County of Kenya. The County Department of Health will help in recruiting participants from doctors, nurses, and other frontline healthcare professionals.

Data Analysis The Data will be analyzed using DiscoverText.com cloud-based platform applying two rounds of coding: first in Vivo coding will be applied then prior codes will be enforced. The Vivo codes will be in the participant's word and voice. Eight priori codes will be adopted from EI literature.

Societal Benefits Society needs healthcare professionals to deal with crisis situations that place them in imperilment. The leaders have constraints of resources, time and advanced knowledge. This study seeks to seek out EI skills that will enable leaders to engage healthcare professionals while recognizing the humanity in them.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Experience frontline healthcare professionals working in Busia County of Kenya

Exclusion Criteria:

* None healthcare professionals
* healthcare professionals not working in Busia county

Primary outcomes:
measure: Emotional Intelligence Competences Frontline Healthcare Professional need in their Leaders
timeFrame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: EI Competence of Participants
timeFrame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
measure: Participant Behavioral Analysis
timeFrame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Busia
country: Kenya
facility: Alupe University College
Study officials:
affiliation: Alupe University College
name: Fabian Esamai, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Alupe University College
name: William Okedi, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: W500G Inc - Contract Research Organization
name: David F AMAKOBE, DBA
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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