NCT04803812

Supporting the Wellness of Ontario Physicians During COVID-19

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 19,124 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ontario Medical Association · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Mental Health Wellness 1
• Anxiety
• Happiness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Remote SMS (short message service, also known as "text message") delivery	Assessing the comparative effects of SMS types (storytelling; resources/strategies; and a combination of both) on physician wellbeing.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-26
• Primary completion: 2021-09-02
• Completion: 2021-09-02
• First posted: 2021-03-18
• Last updated: 2021-11-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada