Clinical trial NCT04338945: Impact of Pandemic COVID-19 on Surgical Specialities Residents in Italy
Official title: Impact of Pandemic COVID-19 on Surgical Specialities Residents in Italy: an Italian Polispecialistic Society of Young Surgeons (S.P.I.G.C.) Survey
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: COVID
Keywords: resident wellness
surgical residency
Lead sponsor: Piazza della Vittoria 14 Studio Medico - Ginecologia e Ostetricia
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-04-08
Enrollment: 800
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Italian medical residents in surgical areas

Brief summary: The Coronavirus Emergency has severely affected Italian Healthcare National System. This event made it necessary to adopt extraordinary containment measures and to allocate extraordinary resources in Italian hospitals. In many centers routinely elective surgical activity has been decreased or even completely abolished. We believe that this exceptional condition is being consequently having a significant impact on surgical training programs.

Detailed description: Purpose of this investigation, organized by the Italian Polispecialistic Society of Young Surgeons (S.P.I.G.C.), is to establish the impact of COVID-19 emergency in the work and training activities of Italian surgical residents.

There will be collected the residents' impressions by completing a survey on this topic. A sub-analysis for each pandemic wave (first, second, third) will be done.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

- Residents in the following surgical specialities: cardiothoracic surgery, colon and rectal surgery, general surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, gynecologic oncology, neurological surgery, ophthalmic surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthopaedic surgery, otorhinolaryngology, pediatric surgery, plastic and maxillofacial surgery, urology, and vascular surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

* Undergratuated and postgraduated students
* Consultants in surgical areas

Primary outcomes:
measure: Measure of the impact of first wave of COVID Pandemic on surgical specialist training programs
timeFrame: 1-3 months after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy
measure: Measure of the impact of second wave of COVID Pandemic on surgical specialist training programs
timeFrame: 1 year after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy
measure: Measure of the impact of third wave of COVID Pandemic on surgical specialist training programs
timeFrame: 2 years after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Measure of impact of first wave of COVID Pandemic on wellness of residents
timeFrame: 1-3 months after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy
measure: Measure of impact of second wave of COVID Pandemic on wellness of residents
timeFrame: 1 year after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy
measure: Measure of impact of third wave of COVID Pandemic on wellness of residents
timeFrame: 2 years after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bari
country: Italy
facility: U.O.C. Chirurgia Generale Universitaria "V. Bonomo"
city: Brindisi
country: Italy
facility: Ospedale Perrino Asl Brindisi
city: Catanzaro
country: Italy
facility: Dipartimento di scienze mediche e chirurgiche, Università di Catanzaro
city: Genova
country: Italy
facility: Ospedale Policlinico San Martino
city: Roma
country: Italy
facility: Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo-Forlanini
city: Roma
country: Italy
facility: IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli
city: Roma
country: Italy
facility: Ospedale Cristo re
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