The Professional Peer Resilience Initiative (PPRI)

April 2, 2025 updated by: University of Minnesota

The Professional Peer Resilience Initiative: Leveraging a Data-Driven Model to Maximize the Resilience of Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Professional Peer Resilience Initiative (PPRI) study is an observational study aimed at understanding how symptoms of traumatic stress and resilience evolve over time in the University of Minnesota (UMN) healthcare workforce during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The study is being conducted concurrently with a UMN peer support program called the MinnRAP program and will remotely administer quality of life and mental health surveys to healthcare workers before they start the MinnRAP program and throughout their participation in the program.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

87

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Minnesota
      • Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455
        • University of Minnesota

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sampling Method

Probability Sample

Study Population

The study population consists of healthcare workers and mental health consultants in the University of Minnesota healthcare workforce.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Healthcare workers (HCWs) and mental health consultants (MHCs) in UMN medical school departments

Exclusion Criteria:

  • None

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
Intervention / Treatment
Healthcare Workers Already Starting Peer Support Program
Behavioral: MinnRAP Peer Support Program
The behavioral intervention consists of 1) pairing healthcare workers into "Battle Buddies" who maintain daily dialogue to detect stress and anxiety and 2) assigning a mental health consultant to each department to facilitate Battle Buddies and provide both small group sessions and individual psychological triage/referrals.
Healthcare Workers Starting Peer Support Program Later
Behavioral: MinnRAP Peer Support Program
The behavioral intervention consists of 1) pairing healthcare workers into "Battle Buddies" who maintain daily dialogue to detect stress and anxiety and 2) assigning a mental health consultant to each department to facilitate Battle Buddies and provide both small group sessions and individual psychological triage/referrals.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in professional quality of life
Time Frame: Before peer support program, through study completion (an average of 7 months)
Professional Quality of Life Questionnaire (proQOL): min score of 10; max score of 50; higher scores mean worse outcome
Before peer support program, through study completion (an average of 7 months)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in mental health symptoms and resilience markers
Time Frame: Before peer support program, through study completion (an average of 7 months)
Stress Risk & Resilience Self-Index: min score 0; max score of 12; higher scores mean worse outcome
Before peer support program, through study completion (an average of 7 months)

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University of Minnesota

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Cristina S Albott, MD, University of Minnesota

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

June 8, 2020

Primary Completion (Actual)

November 10, 2024

Study Completion (Actual)

November 10, 2024

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

April 23, 2020

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 19, 2020

First Posted (Actual)

May 20, 2020

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 4, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 2, 2025

Last Verified

April 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • PSYCH-2020-28762

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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