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Reducing Burnout Among Frontline Healthcare Workers During COVID-19

NCT04474080 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 101

Last updated 2024-09-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Physician burnout has a significant impact on the wellness and productivity of physicians as well as patient health outcomes. Managing burnout among frontline workers is critical to Canada's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to support frontline workers and reduce inefficiencies and medical errors frequently linked to burnout, ultimately improving our ability to detect, treat and manage COVID-19 cases. Therefore, this trial aims to assess the effects of an 8-session intervention over 3 months for burnout in physician residents in residency programs at McMaster University in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. This trial will provide evidence to inform health system management and public health response early and effectively so as to maintain the integrity of our workforce during and post-pandemic. The virtual delivery platform renders the proposed intervention easily disseminated internationally, in low- middle- and high- income countries and across urban and rural cities.

Conditions

  • Burnout

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Virtual Peer Support Platform

The intervention program will consist of 6 virtual 30-minute sessions delivered across three months. Sessions will follow a structured format including: check-in, issue identification \& context, facilitated discussion, environmental strategies, occupational strategies, experiential component, as well as summary and sign-out. Meetings will finish with a stress relieving activity, to be performed together on the web-based platform. The facilitated discussions will follow important themes including focus on self, patients, and external stressors.

BEHAVIORAL

Control Period

The control period will be the time prior to randomization and commencement of the intervention, whereby residents will continue with their regular academic day activities during the allotted intervention time

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Zainab Samaan, MBChB, PhD · St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-07-01
Primary Completion
2023-01-01
Completion
2023-08-01

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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