Clinical trial NCT04383886: Evaluation of Emergency Department (ED) Staff Stress Level During COVID-19 Pandemic
Official title: Evaluation of Emergency Department (ED) Staff Stress Level During COVID-19 Pandemic
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Emergency Department Staff During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Emergency Department Staff's Level of Stress
Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic
level of stress
emergency department staff
Lead sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-05-12
Enrollment: 247
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Emergency department staff

Brief summary: In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Emergency Department (ED) are in front line for the reception of patients presenting COVID-19 symptoms and have to face a new situation given the expected number of patients. Staff participate in suspect patients triage, in the diagnosis and the management of Covid-19 patients, having to follow the instructions and recommendations that evolve in real time, depending on the stage, resources and means available. This situation requires that the staff immediately adaptation within this reorganization and redeployment of the activity. Then; they are subject to many stress and anxiety factors such as:

* Increased activity: massive influx of patients, overload of work, lack of material and human resources
* Modification of practices: training in procedures, measures isolation and prevention of contamination of other patients, replacement by professionals reassigned from other departments
* Ethical dilemma: decisions to be made in an emergency, patient prioritization
* Numerous, evolving information, from various sources and sometimes contradictory (national, governance, service, media)
* Individual: fear of personal contamination and of those close to you, personal organization in a situation of confinement of the population, loss of usual social support
* Anxiety and stress management of patients and relatives, their entourage and colleagues In this study, it is proposed to study the psychic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department staff.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adults
* medical and paramedical staff working the the emergency room permanently or specifically during the COVID19 pandemic
* not opposed to participate to this study

Exclusion Criteria:

* Staff under legal protection
* refusing to participate

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change of emergency department staff's level of stress during the covid19 pandemic, measured using the Chamoux et Simard visual analogic scale
timeFrame: Every 15 days from baseline to 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Lyon
country: France
facility: SAMU Hospices Civils de Lyon
city: Lyon
country: France
facility: Service d'accueil des urgences, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices Civlis de Lyon
city: Lyon
country: France
facility: Service d'accueil des urgences, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Hospices Civils de Lyon
city: Pierre-Bénite
country: France
facility: Service d'accueil des urgences, Hôpital Lyon Sud, Hospices Civils de Lyon
city: Villefranche-sur-Saône
country: France
facility: Hôpital de Villefranche-sur-Saône
Study officials:
References:
citation: Douplat M, Termoz A, Subtil F, Haesebaert J, Jacquin L, Durand G, Potinet V, Hernu R, Nohales L, Mazza S, Berthiller J, Tazarourte K. Changes over time in anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms among healthcare workers in French emergency departments during the first COVID-19 outbreak. J Affect Disord. 2022 Nov 1;316:194-200. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.08.028. Epub 2022 Aug 15.