Burnout Among Caregivers Facing COVID-19 Health Crisis at a Non-conventional Intensive Care Unit Compared to a Conventional Intensive Care Unit

Overview

The intense health crisis due to COVID-19 led to a profound reorganization of the activities at theatres, recovery rooms and the intensive care units. The caregivers are facing several issues and are daily exposed to an intensification of the work. Assessing the stress and the well-being of the caregivers is very important in this context.

Study Type

  • Study Type: Observational
  • Study Design
    • Time Perspective: Prospective
  • Study Primary Completion Date: August 15, 2020

Detailed Description

The current period of intense and prolonged health crisis has necessitated a profound reorganization of the activities and organizations of the intensive care hospital services in order to be able to cope with it. Caregivers are at the heart of the management of this crisis and are exposed daily to these situations of repeated emergencies, an intensification of the pace of work and difficulties in care. In this context, it seemed important to us to try to quantify this pressure of care, in order to be able to offer in second care adapted to caregivers who would like it. The assessment of the mental state of the caregivers as well as the collection of the feelings and perceptions on the current crisis and its management will be carried out by anonymous and voluntary self-questionnaire in collaboration with the service of professional pathologies and occupational medicine of the hospital structure

Interventions

  • Other: Patient management suffering of coronavirus infection
    • Welle-being and stress of the caregivers

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Recovery room caregivers
    • Caregivers working at a recovery room shifted into an intensive care unit for the management of patients suffering from coronavirus infection and needing a resuscitation
  • Intensive care unit caregivers
    • Caregivers working at a conventional intensive care unit for the management of patients suffering from coronavirus infection and needing a resuscitation

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Stress in a recovery room transformed into an intensive care unit versus a conventional intensive care unit
    • Time Frame: A 3 months period from the starting of the pandemic
    • stress level of caregivers managing patients with coronavirus infection needing airway support or resuscitation. The level of stress will be quantified with the Maslach burnout Inventory.

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • Consent to participation; caregivers working at recovery room; caregiver working at intensive care unit Exclusion Criteria:

  • refusal of participation

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: N/A

Maximum Age: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • Hôpital Raymond Poincaré
  • Collaborator
    • Dominique FLETCHER MD-PhD
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Principal Investigator: HARKOUK Hakim, Principal Investigator – Hôpital Raymond Poincaré
  • Overall Contact(s)
    • Hakim Harkouk, M.D., 0033149095422, hakim.harkouk@aphp.fr

References

Staloff J, Diop M, Matuk R, Riese A, White J. Caring for Caregivers: Burnout and Resources for Caregivers in Rhode Island. R I Med J (2013). 2018 Nov 1;101(9):10-11. No abstract available.

Pastores SM. Burnout Syndrome in ICU Caregivers: Time to Extinguish! Chest. 2016 Jul;150(1):1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2016.03.024. No abstract available.

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