Stress Biomarkers Leading to Professional Burnout Among People Involved in a Mobile Intensive Care Unit During the COVID-19 Pandemic (AUTONOMIC)

Direction Centrale du Service de Santé des Armées

Status: Completed

Conditions: Occupational Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Assessment of behavioral response to emotional stimulation; Other: Cardiac and electrodermal recordings; Behavioral: Assessment of work-related stress; Biological: Saliva sample collection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04365335

2020-COVID19-11

2020-A01058-31 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is aiming at investigating whether professional burnout in people involved in the mobile intensive care unit (in French: Element Mobile de Réanimation, EMR) in Mulhouse (France) can be predicted upstream by a low mindfulness level (as a protective factor) or by a dysregulation of stress pathways with a high level of perceived stress towards an emotional event (psychological index of allostatic load), i.e. an early and silent dysfunctional physiological response (measured by the electrophysiological and biological measurements of allostasis load and parasympathetic brake).

It is part of a global approach aiming at identifying levers to prevent the allostatic load of occupational stress related to large-scale health crises.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Volunteer staff member of the Mulhouse mobile intensive care unit (in French: Elément mobile de réanimation, EMR), including military reservists.

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant or breastfeeding woman,
• Person deprived of liberty by a judicial or administrative decision,
• Person subject to a legal protection measure or unable of giving consent
• Intercurrent pathology with inability to work
• History of psychiatric disorder or cardiac pathology