Clinical trial NCT04429828: COVID-19 Psychological Wellbeing for Healthcare Students
Official title: PoWerS Study: Psychological Wellbeing for Healthcare Students: Evaluation of a COVID-19 Digital Learning Package
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Psychological Wellbeing
Lead sponsor: University of Nottingham
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-06-12
Enrollment: 42
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention 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.
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: 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: 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.

Eligibility criteria: 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.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Qualitative Interviews with Healthcare Students
timeFrame: Once per study, telephone interview (during a 6-week interview period)
measure: Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale
timeFrame: Baseline
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Single Item Measure of Global Job Stressfulness (Houdmont et al, 2019)
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Single Item Global Job Satisfaction Measure (Dolbier et al, 2005)
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Single Item Measure of Presenteeism (Aronsson & Gustafsson, 2004)
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Single Item Measure of Turnover intentions
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Work Engagement (Shaufeli et al, 2006)
timeFrame: Baseline
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Nottingham
country: United Kingdom
facility: University of Nottingham
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