Online Multi-component Psychological Intervention for Healthcare Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic

Summary

The objective of this study is to carry out a randomized clinical trial with healthcare workers in Mexico through a web platform. The intervention aims to reduce anxiety, depressive symptoms, burnout, stress, compassion fatigue, and increase the quality of life and sleep and self-care, as well as improve skills in providing bad news to patients and their families. A self-applied intervention will be compared with an intervention delivered by therapists providing the same intervention implemented through Zoom, Skype, or Microsoft Teams, to ensure sanitary protection measures.

Conditions

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Sleep Disturbance
• Quality of Life
• Burnout, Professional
• Stress
• Fatigue, Compassion

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Online psychological intervention for healthcare workers

The intervention is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Behavioral Activation Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Psychology, aimed at the Psychoeducation regarding the manifestations of anxiety, depression, burnout, fatigue compassion, posttraumatic stress disorder, and affectations in sleep quality and perception of life quality in healthcare workers. And 3 complementary modules that according to the scientific literature could affect the mental health of healthcare workers related to how to deliver bad health news, Psychological first aid and how beliefs could influence physical and emotional self-care in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Guadalajara

  collaborator OTHER

• Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

  collaborator OTHER

• Universidad Internacional del Ecuador

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Buenos Aires

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Valencia

  collaborator OTHER

• Universidad Internacional de Valencia

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Anabel de la Rosa Gómez, PhD · Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

• Paulina Erika Herdoiza Arroyo, PhD · Universidad Internacional del Ecuador

• Rosa Olimpia Castellanos Vargas, MD · Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez

• Joaquín Mateu Molla, PhD · Valencian International University

• Luis Farfallini, PhD · University of Buenos Aires

• Eduardo Bautista Valerio, BD · Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-07-16

Primary Completion

2022-06-20

Completion

2022-06-20

Countries

• Mexico

Study Locations