Resilience Intervention for Health Professionals COVID-19

Resilience Intervention in Times of Crisis for Health Professionals During the COVID-19 Contingency

In the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, health personnel, especially nursing staff, have been facing enormous pressure, including a high risk of infection and inadequate protection against contamination, overwork, frustration, discrimination, isolation, lack of contact with their families and exhaustion. Therefore, the World Health Organization (WHO) has requested particular interventions to promote emotional well-being in health workers exposed to COVID-19, which must be implemented immediately, especially those aimed at women and nursing staff. . Psychological support services, including counseling or intervention via phone, internet, and apps, have been widely deployed by local and national mental health institutions in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Complementing these efforts, the present study seeks, through mind-body medicine strategies, to promote resilience among nurses exposed to COVID-19 in critical phases. A multidisciplinary team of expert volunteers designed the intervention in different mind-body medicine techniques (for example, medicine, psychology, thanatology, meditation, health, and wellness coaches, certified Qi Gong, and yoga instructors) and is made up of 3 components main: "micropractices," cohesion and support groups, which will be implemented for 12 weeks in health personnel. This intervention responds to the international call to promote health personnel's physical and emotional health during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering an opportunity to accompany them during this time and mitigate the effects on health in the short and long term.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Mental Health Wellness 1
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Mindfulness-based Intervention

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 371
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Mexico
  • Nuevo Leon
    • San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, 66278
      • TecSalud

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Lack of signature in the informed consent

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: Intervention group; Mindfulness-based intervention is composed of micropractices, cohesion groups, affirmations, and journaling. This was administered via a webpage designed for this intervention.

Other: Mindfulness-based Intervention; The intervention was designed by a volunteer multidisciplinary team expert in different mind-body medicine techniques (for example, medicine, psychology, thanatology, meditation, health, and wellness coaches, certified Qi Gong, and yoga instructors) and is made up of 3 components main: "micropractices," cohesion and support groups, which will be implemented for a period of 12 weeks.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change from Baseline to 6 months follow-up of Subjective Well-being	Subjective Well-Being will be measured using the PERMA Profiler which evaluates positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishments, perception of health, and negative emotions.	At baseline, and 6 months follow-up
Change from Baseline to 6 months follow-up of Negative Emotions	Negative Emotions will be measured using the PERMA Profiler which evaluates positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishments, perception of health, and negative emotions.	At baseline, and 6 months follow-up
Change from Baseline to 6 months follow-up of Perception of Health	Perception of Health will be measured using the PERMA Profiler which evaluates positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishments, perception of health, and negative emotions.	At baseline, and 6 months follow-up
Change from Baseline to 6 months follow-up of Stress	Stress will be measured using the perceived stress scale.	At baseline and 6 months follow-up
Change from Baseline to 6 months follow-up of Resilience	Resilience will be measured using the brief resilience scale	At baseline and 6 months follow-up
Change from Baseline to 6 months follow-up of mindfulness	Resilience will be measured using the mindfulness-awareness attention scale	At baseline and 6 months follow-up
Change from Baseline to 6 months follow-up of burnout	Burnout will be measured using the Burnout Clinical Subtypes Questionnaire	At baseline and 6 months follow-up

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Universidad de Monterrey

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 1, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 30, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): April 1, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 23, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 23, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): August 25, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 25, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 23, 2022
• Last Verified: August 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: COVID-19; mindfulness; nurses; resilience
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Coronavirus Infections; Coronaviridae Infections; Nidovirales Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Virus Diseases; Infections; Respiratory Tract Infections; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Pneumonia, Viral; Pneumonia; Lung Diseases; COVID-19
• Other Study ID Numbers: 20191210-CEI

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