Supporting the Wellness of Ontario Physicians During COVID-19

Ontario Medical Association

Status: Completed

Conditions: Happiness; Mental Health Wellness 1; Anxiety

Treatments: Other: Remote SMS (short message service, also known as "text message") delivery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04803812

39707

Details and patient eligibility

About

In light of the coronavirus pandemic, the challenge of physician burnout has taken on a new urgency. Long-hours and difficult, sometimes unsafe work conditions are creating a severe strain for emergency physicians and others on the frontlines of Ontario's response to COVID-19. There are a variety of evidence-informed ways that physicians can protect their wellbeing with modest investments of time and energy that will be applied. The evaluation will be a randomized trial comparing the outcomes from each of the three treatment arms. Researchers may also use a pre-post comparison with control parameters to conduct an exploratory analysis to assess efficacy.

Enrollment: 19,124 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Active membership to the Ontario Medical Association (OMA). Up-to-date cell phone information registered to the OMA.

Exclusion criteria

• Participation in the OMA Physician Burnout Task Force. Opt-out from the intervention.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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19,124 participants in 3 patient groups

Receive weekly SMS containing wellness stories shared by other Ontario physicians

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Remote SMS (short message service, also known as "text message") delivery

Receive weekly SMS containing aim wellness resources/strategies.

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Remote SMS (short message service, also known as "text message") delivery

Receive weekly SMS combining wellness stories & resources/strategies

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Remote SMS (short message service, also known as "text message") delivery