Clinical trial NCT04358640: Anxiety and Work Resilience Among Tertiary University Hospital Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Online Survey
Official title: Anxiety and Work Resilience Among Tertiary University Hospital Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Online Survey
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Critical Illness
Sars-CoV2
SARS Pneumonia
Coronavirus Infection
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Lead sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-04-24
Enrollment: 1784
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: All employees of ICHU Nîmes participating to the present study will be sent a questionnaire for assessing the potential occurrence of anxiety This evaluation will be performed after the beginning of the outbreak (15 to 45 days)

Brief summary: For limiting COVID-19 spreading, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended worldwide confinement on 2010. In France, unessential institutions were closed on March 14th and population confinement was decided on March 17th.

Quarantine and/or confinement could lead to psychological effects such as confusion, suicide ideation, post-traumatic stress symptoms or anger COVID-19 outbreak highlighted a considerable proportion of health care workers (HCW) with depression, insomnia, anxiety and distress symptoms. In front line, facing the virus with the fear of contracting it and contaminate their closest. During previous outbreaks (H1N1, SARS), HCWs have been shown to experience such negative psychological effects of confinement as well as work avoidance behaviour and physical interaction reduction with infected patients (4-7).

In France, Covid 19 outbeak led to increase ICU bed capacity with a full reorganization of the human resources. Some caregivers were reassigned to newly setup units admitting or not Covid-19 patients. In the same time, non-caregivers were also encouraged to work at home whenever possible. Thus, every hospital staff member's private and professional life could be altered by the Covid-19 outbreak.

As all these changes in the daily life could induce psychological disturbances, the present study was aimed at assessing the acute anxiety level (main objective) of the staff in our Tertiary University Hospital, (6300 employees). Secondarily, the self-reported insomnia, pain, catastrophism and work avoidance behaviour levels were assessed


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Employees of CHU Nîmes during COVID-19 pandemic
* Approved to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participation refusal

Primary outcomes:
measure: Anxiety
timeFrame: 15 to 45 days after the beginning of the outbreak
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Insomnia
timeFrame: 15 to 45 days after the beginning of the outbreak
measure: Catastrophism
timeFrame: 15 to 45 days after the beginning of the outbreak
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Nîmes
country: France
facility: Intensive care unit CHU Nimes
Study officials:
References:
citation: Brooks SK, Webster RK, Smith LE, Woodland L, Wessely S, Greenberg N, Rubin GJ. The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence. Lancet. 2020 Mar 14;395(10227):912-920. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30460-8. Epub 2020 Feb 26.