The Pandemic Stress Vaccine: A Resource to Enhance the Resilience of Healthcare Workers Facing an Infectious Outbreak

Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Psychological Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Interactive computerized learning resource; Behavioral: Didactic computerized learning resource

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00962273

09-0133-E

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of an interactive, computerized learning resource designed to increase resilience in hospital-based health care workers preparing for an influenza pandemic. The effects of the learning resource will be compared to a non-interactive learning resource condition and a control condition. It is hypothesized that (a) online pandemic-related education reduces absenteeism and interpersonal problems for healthcare workers (HCWs), and improves their pandemic self-efficacy in the short and long-term, and (b) an interactive format for online education is necessary for its benefits.

Enrollment: 118 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• employee or professional staff of a hospital

Exclusion criteria

• unable to read and write English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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118 participants in 3 patient groups

Pandemic Stress Vaccine - Interactive

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Interactive computerized learning resource

Pandemic Stress Vaccine - Didactic

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Didactic computerized learning resource

Wait list

No Intervention group

Description:

Some participants are assigned to an eight week waiting condition prior to the course commencing.