Corona And Manual Professions

COVID-19 Pandemic and Small Businesses in the Health Care Sector - Work Environment, Health and Economy of Swedish Chiropractors and Naprapaths

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04834583

Acronym

CAMP

Enrollment

703

Registered

2021-04-08

Start date

2020-11-02

Completion date

2023-04-30

Last updated

2023-10-03

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Conditions

Covid19

Brief summary

This observational study will follow the chiropractors and naprapaths in Sweden to study how work environment, health, and economy is changing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Detailed description

All manual therapists that are members of a professional organization in Sweden will be invited to participate. The study started in November 2020 with follow-ups planned after 3,6 and 12 months. All data-collection is taking place with digital questionnaires. There are three main areas of interest: 1. Work environment (knowledge about viral contageon, protection, availability of protective measures, disturbances in care for patients) 2. Health (physical and psychological, how many caught the virus?) 3. Economy (income, costs, turnover)

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

20 Years to 65 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Chiropractor or naprapath working in Sweden * clinically active * belonging to a professional organization

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Work environment	12 months	Changes in routines according to the pandemic This includes systematic work environment routines, cleaning, wearing protective gear, not treating patients belonging to certain risk categories, changing appointment scheduling etc. There are no validated questionnaires to examine these concepts, as we have not experienced a pandemic in modern times, so the questions are constructed by the research group.
Physical Health -Pain	12 months	Physical pain using the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire
Psychological Health -depression	12 months	Depression assessed with DASS-21
Psychological Health -sleep	12 months	Sleep will be assessed using Karolinska Sleep Questionnaire.
Economy	12 months	Changes in company turnover. For clinic owners, this measure is assessing income and cost, estimated by clinic owners, There are no validated questionnaires to examine these concepts, as we have not experienced a pandemic in modern times, so the questions are constructed by the research group.

Countries

Sweden

Outcome results