COVID
Conditions
Keywords
resident wellness, surgical residency
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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALCOVID-surgRES questionaire
The questionaire gives a multidimensional assessment of residents' impression with regard to impact of COVID emergency on Italian specialist training programs
Sponsors
Piazza della Vittoria 14 Studio Medico - Ginecologia e Ostetricia
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Measure of the impact of first wave of COVID Pandemic on surgical specialist training programs | 1-3 months after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy | Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers |
| Measure of the impact of second wave of COVID Pandemic on surgical specialist training programs | 1 year after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy | Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers |
| Measure of the impact of third wave of COVID Pandemic on surgical specialist training programs | 2 years after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy | Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Measure of impact of first wave of COVID Pandemic on wellness of residents | 1-3 months after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy | Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers |
| Measure of impact of second wave of COVID Pandemic on wellness of residents | 1 year after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy | Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers |
| Measure of impact of third wave of COVID Pandemic on wellness of residents | 2 years after the beginning of COVID emergency in Italy | Analysis of this outcome with regard to the different surgical subspecialities and different Italian medical centers |
Countries
Italy
Outcome results
None listed