The Professional Peer Resilience Initiative

The Professional Peer Resilience Initiative: Leveraging a Data-Driven Model to Maximize the Resilience of Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04396600

Acronym

PPRI

Enrollment

Registered

2020-05-20

Start date

2020-06-08

Completion date

2024-11-10

Last updated

2025-04-04

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Anxiety, Anxiety State, Emotional Resilience, Mental Resilience, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Professional Quality of Life, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Stress, Stress Disorder, Stress, Psychological, Stress Reaction, Stress Related Disorder, Stress Risk, Trauma, Psychological

Keywords

Resilience, COVID-19, Coronavirus Disease 2019, Coronavirus, Healthcare Workers, Frontline, Traumatic Stress

Brief summary

The Professional Peer Resilience Initiative (PPRI) study is an observational study aimed at understanding how symptoms of traumatic stress and resilience evolve over time in the University of Minnesota (UMN) healthcare workforce during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The study is being conducted concurrently with a UMN peer support program called the MinnRAP program and will remotely administer quality of life and mental health surveys to healthcare workers before they start the MinnRAP program and throughout their participation in the program.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALMinnRAP Peer Support Program

The behavioral intervention consists of 1) pairing healthcare workers into Battle Buddies who maintain daily dialogue to detect stress and anxiety and 2) assigning a mental health consultant to each department to facilitate Battle Buddies and provide both small group sessions and individual psychological triage/referrals.

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Healthcare workers (HCWs) and mental health consultants (MHCs) in UMN medical school departments

Exclusion criteria

* None

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Change in professional quality of life	Before peer support program, through study completion (an average of 7 months)	Professional Quality of Life Questionnaire (proQOL): min score of 10; max score of 50; higher scores mean worse outcome

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Change in mental health symptoms and resilience markers	Before peer support program, through study completion (an average of 7 months)	Stress Risk & Resilience Self-Index: min score 0; max score of 12; higher scores mean worse outcome

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026