Clinical trial NCT06984692: Evaluation of iRise mHealth App on Healthcare Workers' (HCWs') Self-Efficacy and Willingness to Respond During Public Health Emergencies in Pakistan
Official title: Evaluation of iRise mHealth App on Healthcare Workers' (HCWs') Self-Efficacy and Willingness to Respond During Public Health Emergencies in Pakistan
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Behavior Change
Self Efficacy
Lead sponsor: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Fogarty International Center of the National Institute of Health
First posted: 2025-05-22
Enrollment: 205
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: This will be a 12-month, two-arm, parallel randomized controlled trial to evaluate a mHealth intervention, iRise, for emergency health care workers (HCWs).
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a novel mHealth intervention that is being designed to promote self-efficacy and response willingness among Pakistan-based emergency department health care workers (HCWs) in public health emergencies and disasters. This application seeks approval for the trial of the intervention. The purpose of this trial is to gauge short-term (1-month), medium-term (6-months), and longer-term (12-months) impacts of iRise mHealth app on low and middle income based countries HCWs' self-efficacy and willingness to respond (WTR) during public health emergencies and disasters. The investigators will test the hypothesis that the iRise app would yield an increased 12-months WTR in Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) and Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JMPC) emergency departments.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Participants are eligible to be included in the study if

* aged 18 years or older,
* have worked in the current job position for at least three months,
* current Emergency Department clinical staff/employee involved in direct patient care (doctors, nurses, and technicians) at a participating institution (Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC)
* understand and write English,
* own a smart phone and have access to the internet to download the app.

Exclusion Criteria:

Participants will not be eligible to participate if

* younger than 18 years of age,
* have worked in the current job position for less than three months,
* are not a current employee or staff member as described above,
* are auxiliary personnel such as registration staff, housekeeping, porters, and security personnel,
* don't understand and write English, or
* don't own a smart phone or have access to the internet to download the app.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Willingness to respond (WTR) to disasters as measured by Hospital Infrastructure Response Survey Tool (HIRST)
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 month, 6 months, 12 months
measure: Willingness to respond (WTR) to disasters as measured by Hospital Infrastructure Response Survey Tool (HIRST)
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Willingness to respond (WTR) to disasters as measured by Hospital Infrastructure Response Survey Tool (HIRST)
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Willingness to respond (WTR) to disasters as measured by Hospital Infrastructure Response Survey Tool (HIRST)
timeFrame: 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Self efficacy as assessed by the General Self-efficacy Scale
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Self efficacy as assessed by the General Self-efficacy Scale
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Self efficacy as assessed by the General Self-efficacy Scale
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Self efficacy as assessed by the General Self-efficacy Scale
timeFrame: 12 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Karachi
country: Pakistan
facility: Aga Khan University Hospital
state: Sindh
city: Karachi
country: Pakistan
facility: Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre
state: Sindh
city: Karachi
country: Pakistan
facility: Aga khan university
state: Sindh
Study officials:
affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
name: Daniel Barnett, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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