Emergency Department Staff During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Emergency Department Staff's Level of Stress
Conditions
Keywords
COVID-19 pandemic, level of stress, emergency department staff
Brief summary
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Emergency Department (ED) are in front line for the reception of patients presenting COVID-19 symptoms and have to face a new situation given the expected number of patients. Staff participate in suspect patients triage, in the diagnosis and the management of Covid-19 patients, having to follow the instructions and recommendations that evolve in real time, depending on the stage, resources and means available. This situation requires that the staff immediately adaptation within this reorganization and redeployment of the activity. Then; they are subject to many stress and anxiety factors such as: * Increased activity: massive influx of patients, overload of work, lack of material and human resources * Modification of practices: training in procedures, measures isolation and prevention of contamination of other patients, replacement by professionals reassigned from other departments * Ethical dilemma: decisions to be made in an emergency, patient prioritization * Numerous, evolving information, from various sources and sometimes contradictory (national, governance, service, media) * Individual: fear of personal contamination and of those close to you, personal organization in a situation of confinement of the population, loss of usual social support * Anxiety and stress management of patients and relatives, their entourage and colleagues In this study, it is proposed to study the psychic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department staff.
Interventions
OTHERstress and anxiety questionnaire
Emergency department staff will be asked to fill in questionnaires in order to measure their stress and anxiety level, their propensity to have a burn-out, their consumption of psychoactive substances such as alcohol, tobacco, coffee or anxiolytic, their sleep disorder.
Sponsors
Hospices Civils de Lyon
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Adults * medical and paramedical staff working the the emergency room permanently or specifically during the COVID19 pandemic * not opposed to participate to this study
Exclusion criteria
* Staff under legal protection * refusing to participate
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change of emergency department staff's level of stress during the covid19 pandemic, measured using the Chamoux et Simard visual analogic scale | Every 15 days from baseline to 3 months | The level of stress will be measured using the Chamoux et Simard visual analogic scale. This scale is composed of 3 subscales evaluating the stress level at work, at home and in the life in general. Each scale are rating from 0 to 10, 0 being the absence of stress and 10 the highest level of stress ever experienced a cotation at each scale greater than 6 will defined the presence of a stress. |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed