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The Pandemic Stress Vaccine: A Resource to Enhance the Resilience of Healthcare Workers Facing an Infectious Outbreak

NCT00962273 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 118

Last updated 2010-08-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of an interactive, computerized learning resource designed to increase resilience in hospital-based health care workers preparing for an influenza pandemic. The effects of the learning resource will be compared to a non-interactive learning resource condition and a control condition. It is hypothesized that (a) online pandemic-related education reduces absenteeism and interpersonal problems for healthcare workers (HCWs), and improves their pandemic self-efficacy in the short and long-term, and (b) an interactive format for online education is necessary for its benefits.

Conditions

  • Psychological Stress

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Interactive computerized learning resource

In a series of interactive scenarios, participants can "see" themselves in stressful work situations that could arise during an influenza pandemic and reflect on effective ways to work out personal and interpersonal difficulties.

BEHAVIORAL

Didactic computerized learning resource

In a non-interactive format (i.e., a series of audio presentations with accompanying PowerPoint-type slides) participants are given information on how to handle stressful work situations that could arise during an influenza pandemic.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • William J. Lancee, Ph.D. · MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL

  • Robert G. Maunder, M.D. · MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-10-31
Primary Completion
2010-07-31
Completion
2010-07-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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