Cardiovascular Diseases, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Psychiatric Disorder
Conditions
Keywords
COVID-19, pandemic, psychology, social interactions, financial impacts, mental health, stress, anxiety, depression, healthcare professional's health, familly, sleep, occupational life, survey, social media, access to care, social distancing
Brief summary
A dynamic analytical tool is being implemented to monitor the health, psychosocial and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic as the crisis unfolds. A longitudinal survey is distributed via a network of hospitals, provincial/national organizations and web platforms. The survey information can be linked to provincial health administrative data and metrics derived from social media activity based on artificial intelligence methods. Targeted questions are included for critical populations such as healthcare workers and people with chronic illnesses.
Detailed description
The current situation unfolding with regards to the COVID-19 virus is changing core aspects of people's lives in a unique manner. This study aims to examine the psychological, social, and financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic at various stages of the outbreak. Individuals 12 years and older are recruited from three main groups: general population, people with chronic illnesses and healthcare professionals. An online survey is distributed via multiple hospitals, provincial/national organizations, and web-based platforms at various phases of the outbreak. The survey includes validated questionnaires and custom-made questions to asses the current situation. It notably addresses the following themes: demographics, COVID-19 symptoms and diagnoses, social distancing practices and social interactions, living situation, financial situation, family and work-related challenges, access to healthcare, as well as sleep, physical and mental health. The survey is available in English and French. It is built on a decisional tree structure with customized subsets of questions based on previous answers.The survey contains an adolescent version and an adult version, and also includes targeted questions for individuals with a current diagnosis of a mental/medical illness. Consent is also sought to link data from parent-child dyads to enable finer analyses of family dynamics. Healthcare staff are invited to answer questions about work-related difficulties, usefulness of virtual tools for clinical practice, as well as moral distress and moral resilience in the context of clinical practice. Healthcare staff who are short on time can chose fill out an abbreviated version. Participants have the option of enabling linkage to linked to provincial health administrative data, and to provide their twitter and facebook handle for social media and mood monitoring through artificial intelligence algorithms. Participants have the option of being followed longitudinally during and after the outbreak.
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Centre Integre Universitaire de Sante et Services Sociaux du Nord de l'ile de Montreal
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Southlake Regional Health Centre
The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Cheo Research Institute
Ottawa Heart Institute Research Corporation
McGill University
Johns Hopkins University
Université de Montréal
The Royal's Institute of Mental Health Research
University of Ottawa
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
12 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* All individuals who are at least 12 years of age
Exclusion criteria
* None
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mental health - Stress | through study completion, estimated to 8 months | Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale (scores ranged from 0 to 40, higher scores indicating worse stress) |
| Mental health - Anxiety | through study completion, estimated to 8 months | Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (scores ranged from 0 to 21, higher scores indicating worse anxiety) |
| Mental health - Depression | through study completion, estimated to 8 months | Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self-report, short version (scores ranged from 0 to 27, higher scores indicating worse depression) |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| COVID-9 symptoms | through study completion, estimated to 8 months | Fever, Cough, Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, Tiredness, Aches and pains, Nasal congestion, Runny nose, Sore throat, Diarrhea (Mild Moderate, Severe, N/A) |
| Adverse health long-term outcome | 5 years before the outbreak and two years after | Mortality (Yes/No): https://datadictionary.ices.on.ca/Applications/DataDictionary/Default.aspx |
| Health care utilization - Inpatient | 5 years before the outbreak and two years after | Hospitalizations (total number): https://datadictionary.ices.on.ca/Applications/DataDictionary/Default.aspx |
| Moral distress in healthcare workers | through study completion, estimated to 8 months | Measure of Moral Distress - Healthcare Professionals (scores ranged from 0 to 432, higher scores indicating worse moral distress) |
| Health care utilization - Outpatient | 5 years before the outbreak and two years after | Outpatient visits: https://datadictionary.ices.on.ca/Applications/DataDictionary/Default.aspx |
| Sleep | through study completion, estimated to 8 months | Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (scores ranged from 0 to 21, higher scores indicating worse sleep disturbances) |
| Health care utilization - ER | 5 years before the outbreak and two years after | Emergency Department visits (Total number): https://datadictionary.ices.on.ca/Applications/DataDictionary/Default.aspx |
| Moral resilience in healthcare workers | through study completion, estimated to 8 months | Rushton Moral Resilience Scale (scores ranged from 1 to 4, higher scores indicating more resiliency) |
| Social life | through study completion, estimated to 8 months | Frequency of interacting with other people (daily, weekly, monthly, less often than monthly) |
Countries
Canada
Contacts
Primary ContactRébecca Robillard, PhD
Outcome results
None listed