Psychological Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Caregivers (PSY-CO-ICU)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04511780 |
Recruitment Status :
Not yet recruiting
First Posted : August 13, 2020
Last Update Posted : December 19, 2020
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Based on the experience of previous pandemics, countries reacted by applying different upgrade strategies to prevent or delay the widespread of the disease. Therefore, measures such as border closure, school closure, restrict social gathering (even shutdown of workplaces), limit population movements, and confinement meaning quarantines at the scale of cities or regions. In public hospitals, several measures have been decided to concentrate the power of care on potential wave of admissions of patients with severe forms of Covid-19. In this purpose, the number of available beds in Intensive Care Units (ICU) has been increased by two-fold and scheduled non-emergency surgical procedure have been cancelled. That means:
- For the most severe patients, new personals (physician such as anesthesiologists, nurses of other units) have been transferred in ICUs.
- For the less severe patients, personals of non-busy units have been transferred in busier ones.
All these measures lead to major daily-life change sets that could be stressful. In the general population, it has been well documented that quarantine or confinement or isolation could lead to the occurrence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) syndrome in about 30% overall population. Importantly, high depressive symptoms have been reported in 9% of hospital staff. Numerous symptoms have been reported after quarantine or isolation such as emotional disturbance, depression, stress, low mood, irritability, insomnia, and post-traumatic stress symptoms.
In hospital setting, few studies have been performed for assessing the psychological impact of quarantine and isolation. However, two studies reported a high prevalence of burn-out syndrome (BOS) in ICU physician and PTSD syndrome and depression in ICU nurses. As the consequences of all the measures decided and applied during Covid-19 pandemic could be important on caregivers, the present study primarily aims at assessing the prevalence of PTSD syndrome in a large population of caregivers implied or not in Intensive Care Units. The secondary objective were 1) to assess the prevalence of severe depression and anxiety and BOS 2) to isolate potential factors associated with PTSD, severe depression, anxiety or BOS.
Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment |
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Critical Illness Covid19 Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic | Other: questionnaire filling |
Study Type : | Observational |
Estimated Enrollment : | 5000 participants |
Observational Model: | Cohort |
Time Perspective: | Prospective |
Official Title: | Psychological Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Caregivers Involved in Intensive Care Unit Patient Management: Impact on the Occurrence of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety, Depression and Burn Out Syndrome |
Estimated Study Start Date : | January 2021 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | September 2022 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | September 2022 |

Group/Cohort | Intervention/treatment |
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Caregivers
• Caregivers (doctors senior and junior, nurses, aid nurses) involved in the staff (permanent or transient, full or partial time) of ICU patients during Covid-19 outbreak
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Other: questionnaire filling
assessment of post-traumatic stress, anxiety and burn out |
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder [ Time Frame: 3-6 month after the Covid-19 outbreak ]PCL - 5 (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist Scale, version DSM-5)
- anxiety and depression [ Time Frame: 3-6 month after the Covid-19 outbreak ]HADS scale (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale)
- Burn out [ Time Frame: 3-6 month after the Covid-19 outbreak ]Score MBI (Burn out syndrome)

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Sampling Method: | Non-Probability Sample |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Caregivers (doctors senior and junior, nurses, aid nurses) involved in the staff (permanent or transient, full or partial time) of ICU patients during Covid-19 outbreak
- Approved to participate
Exclusion Criteria:
- Participation refusal
- No internet connection for responding to the questionnaire with REDCAP file

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT04511780
Contact: Jean Yves LEFRANT | +33466683331 | jean.yves.lefrant@chu-nimes.fr |

Principal Investigator: | Jean Yves LEFRANT | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes |
Responsible Party: | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT04511780 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Local/2020/JYL-03 |
First Posted: | August 13, 2020 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | December 19, 2020 |
Last Verified: | December 2020 |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: | No |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: | No |
COVID-19 Critical Illness Stress Disorders, Traumatic Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic Respiratory Tract Infections Infections Pneumonia, Viral Pneumonia Virus Diseases Coronavirus Infections |
Coronaviridae Infections Nidovirales Infections RNA Virus Infections Lung Diseases Respiratory Tract Diseases Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders Mental Disorders Disease Attributes Pathologic Processes |