Perceived Stress Among ICU Medical Staff During COVID-19 Crisis

Perceived Stress and Needs Among Medical Staff in ICU During COVID-19 Crisis

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04604769

Acronym

ICUcovid

Enrollment

Registered

2020-10-27

Start date

2019-06-26

Completion date

2020-09-01

Last updated

2020-10-27

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Conditions

Coronavirus, Nurse's Role, Professional Stress

Keywords

coronavirus, covid-19, pandemia, professional stress, burnout, nursing, intensive care units (ICU), infection, work organization

Brief summary

The objective of this study is to compare psychological distress and needs of nurses in ICU before and during coronavirus pandemic.

Detailed description

Well-being of caregivers and stress management in intensive care units are essential keys to an adequate quality of care, especially during the anxious context of coronavirus pandemic. Taking care of numerous patients, the increasing work and mental charges, facing death, the need of material and changes in work organization are all elements that can influence stress among medical workers. Considering real causes of stress and what are the needs of the medical team is fundamental for developing concrete actions to ease the workloads. A few studies were conducted in China on psychological distress of medical staff during COVID-19. According to these few studies about psychological distress in ICU, investigators think that stress scores during COVID-19 could be increased among nurses during pandemic. The second hypothesis is that causes of stress would be not so different from normal care but could be amplified by the actual situation. One point to take into consideration is that most of the studies were conducted in China and medical policy and hospital organization are different in Belgium. The objective of the study is to compare psychological distress and needs of nurses in ICU before and during coronavirus pandemic.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Adults \> 18 years old * working in ICU for at least November 2019 * working in ICU regularly since March 2020 * Medical and paramedical professionals * Working in direct contact with COVID patients

Exclusion criteria

* Medical professionals from others departments * Internship students * External volunteers for COVID * Non front-line nurses

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
stress at work	change from baseline at one year	Job Content Questionnaire (Karasek, 1979)
stress in a medical unit	change from baseline at one year	Nursing Stress Questionnaire (Gray-Toft, 1981)

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
hobby activities	change from baseline at one year	We will ask if they are used to do activities like hypnosis, yoga, mediation, sport, etc. This factor could help us to know if these activities can help and if we have to promote them in the hospital.

Countries

Belgium

Outcome results