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Needs, Perceptions and Acute Stress of Healtcare Workers Caring for COVID-19 Patients in South America

NCT04486404 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1800

Last updated 2022-09-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The pressure on care and the demand for critical decision-making generated by the current SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic, together with the situation of extreme social alarm and the adverse conditions in which care work must be promoted at this time, draw an extreme scenario in which action is urgently needed to alleviate emotional overload, acute stress reactions and other affective pathologies or psychosomatic reactions that may eventually lead to post-traumatic stress situations. This eventuality is being observed massively among professionals from different groups and levels of responsibility.

In the case of healthcare personnel, it should be added that the care of non-COVID19 patients (of all pathologies and conditions) is clearly compromised and it is up to the professionals as a whole to make critical decisions and exercise a professional practice that is radically different from what has usually been done, which may require the application of undesirable triage criteria that are difficult for everyone to assume.

Healthcare professionals and other essential personnel for healthcare and social-healthcare work (including personnel from external companies) are being subjected to emotional tensions and extraordinary, high-intensity work demands. Without professionals who feel supported and with moral strength, care will be even more compromised.

The current scenario makes us think of many critical situations that are occurring as a result of the overload experienced. It is essential to act in order to counteract the devastating effect of this health crisis on health professionals and those who support them in their care work.

Conditions

  • Acute Stress Disorder

Interventions

OTHER

Online survey

Online survey including questions related to PPE availability, perceptions, emotions and EASE scale (Acute Stress Scale).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidad Catolica Santiago de Guayaquil

    collaborator OTHER

  • Universidad de Santander

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Sao Paulo

    collaborator OTHER

  • Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

    collaborator OTHER

  • Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jose J Mira, PhD · Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-04-01
Primary Completion
2020-12-30
Completion
2021-12-30

Countries

  • Argentina
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Ecuador
  • Spain

Study Locations

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