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Post-Covid-19 Emotional Aspects of Hospital Staff

NCT04794920 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 780

Last updated 2023-04-28

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Summary

The ongoing SARS-CoV2 or Covid-19 pandemic is causing a major global health crisis. In France, it prompted an urgent reorganization of the healthcare supply, mobilizing caregivers and hospital staff in a climate of uncertainty. Health services have been put to the test, some staff being on the front line, others having faced the reorganization of the health system necessitated by such a pandemic.

Frontline caregivers have been compared to "fighters on the front lines." They encountered many difficulties, such as direct exposure to patients with a high viral load, exposure to the risk of contamination, physical exhaustion, reorganization of workspaces, adaptation to rigid work organizations, the management of the shortage of materials, the unusually high number of deaths among patients, colleagues or relatives, ethical questions relating to decision-making in a strained healthcare system.

The psychological impact on these hospital staff is an indirect issue of such a pandemic in terms of mental health.

The investigators have little data in the literature on the incidence of psychiatric episodes in the post-epidemic period. Work on the impact of two major pandemics of influenza A H1N1 (2009) and SARS-CoV-1 (2003) on the mental health of caregivers and other staff working in hospitals reports increased rates of mental disorders after discharge from anxiety-type crisis, depression and post-traumatic stress. This over-representation of mental disorders was still found several years after the epidemic.

Similar results are emerging in recent studies involving hospital staff who were used in the Covid-19 crisis. These highlight a certain number of risk factors for the occurrence of these disorders (young age, nursing profession, underlying psychiatric pathology, exercise carried out in the first line of Covid).

Conditions

  • Covid19

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fondation Hôpital Saint-Joseph

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marguerite D'USSEL · Fondation Hôpital Saint-Joseph

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-07-10
Primary Completion
2020-10-03
Completion
2023-01-09

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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