Swiss Cohort of Health Professionals and Informal Caregivers (SCOHPICA)

University Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Informal Caregiver; Healthcare Professional

Treatments: Other: Electronic surveys; Other: Qualitative Interviews

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05571488

SCOHPICA_2022

Details and patient eligibility

About

The healthcare system is continuously evolving to adapt to the population's needs, both in terms of healthcare practices, and in financial and organizational aspects. The current COVID-19 pandemic has added additional pressure to the healthcare system and shown its limits in terms of preparedness. It has also shown once again that both healthcare professionals (HCPs) and informal caregivers (ICs) play a central role for the functioning of the healthcare system.

An increasing number of studies are alerting on HCPs' situation, regarding their physical and mental health (e.g. emotional exhaustion, professional well-being) on the one hand, and the functioning of the healthcare system (e.g. absenteeism, turnover, career change) on the other hand.

Besides healthcare professionals, ICs, defined as "a person in the immediate entourage of an individual whose health and/or autonomy is impaired and who requires assistance with certain [basic or instrumental] activities of daily living. The IC provides the person, on a non-professional and informal basis, and on a regular basis, with assistance, care or presence services of varying nature and intensity, designed to compensate for their incapacities or difficulties or to ensure their safety, identity and social ties". Caring for others has shown to have negative impact on the ICs' life, in terms of health-related implications, psychological burden, quality of life, etc. Despite being increasingly recognized as having a key role in the provision of care, they have only been limitedly considered in studies on healthcare professionals.

In that context, the investigators develop SCOHPICA project, the Swiss cohort of healthcare professionals and informal caregivers, which is an open prospective national cohort using a concurrent embedded mixed method design. This project targets all types of HCPs and ICs, and will investigate determinants of intent to stay and well-being according to participants' trajectories.

Enrollment: 6,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria (HCPs):

• Working as HCP, in any profession
• Taking care of patients currently and actively
• Working in any health work setting
• Working as an independent or a salaried
• Working in Switzerland

Exclusion Criteria (HCPs):

• Being retired at baseline
• Unable to read or speak in one of the national languages: German, French, Italian

Inclusion Criteria (ICs):

• Being informal cargiver
• Aged 18 and over (adults)

Exclusion Criteria (ICs):

• Unable to read or speak in one of the national languages: German, French, Italian

Trial design

6,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Healthcare professionals

Description:

All type of healthcare professionals (HCPs), working in a variety of settings and across Switzerland

Treatment:

Other: Qualitative Interviews

Other: Electronic surveys

Informal caregivers

Description:

All type of informal caregivers (ICs), aged 18 and over, assisting a person for health reasons across Switzerland

Treatment:

Other: Qualitative Interviews

Other: Electronic surveys