Attitudes and Feelings of Doctors Caring for Their Colleagues: a Qualitative Study in Picardy (ATTRESMED)

The sick doctor is a patient apart. His right of prescription and his knowledge of semiology easily lead him to self-medication.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Attitude; Feelings
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Feelings Determination

Detailed Description

The sick doctor is a patient apart. His right of prescription and his knowledge of semiology easily lead him to self-medication. Several factors linked to his profession may also lead to a delay in care: overworking with schedules that are not compatible to organize follow-up, poor access to prevention or occupational medicine for liberal doctors but also modesty And ashamed of being sick (and especially unfit to heal). Specialized centers and specific training courses concerning burnout, addictions and psychiatric pathologies of doctors are currently emerging.

To look after a colleague also seems to imply certain specificities like the sharing of knowledge or the medical vocabulary. The physician-patient relationship may seem easier, but it can also lead to confusion of roles and create ambiguity. In this case, the doctor may feel too close to the doctor-patient to maintain his objectivity and to treat him properly. In the same way, the relationship of trust can be altered by sharing medical knowledge, communication techniques or confidence building which can thus lose their effectiveness.

This physician-caregiver relationship has already been the subject of some qualitative research demonstrating the difficulty from the point of view of the treated. The feelings and attitudes of the doctor caring for his colleague remains a field very little studied. The research hypothesis is that there are specificities to this relationship.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 15

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Picardie
    • Amiens, Picardie, France, 80054
      • CHU Amiens Picardie

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Doctors caring for their colleagues

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Practicing general practitioners, registered with the Order, caring for or having treated other doctors whatever their specialties

Exclusion Criteria:

• No

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Cohort
• Time Perspectives: Prospective

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Analyze the feelings of doctors who care for their colleagues through a questionnaire	Analyze the feelings of doctors who care for their colleagues through a questionnaire	10 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 22, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 14, 2017
• Study Completion (Actual): November 14, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 13, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 27, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): April 28, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 1, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 29, 2020
• Last Verified: May 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: RNI2016-43 Dr Deschasse

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No