NCT04841759

The Effects of a Multi-factorial Rehabilitation Program for Healthcare Workers Suffering From Post-COVID-19 Fatigue Syndrome

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 46 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medical University of Vienna · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The SARS-CoV2 pandemic has kept the world in suspense for over a year now. Almost 100 million people around the world have contracted COVID-19 to date and over 2 million people have died of COVID-19 by the end of January 2021. Despite the tragedy of these deaths, it must be pointed out at this point that the number of COVID-19 survivors is significantly larger. These COVID-19 survivors are now the focus of interest in rehabilitation measures, as it has been shown that survival of the disease does not go hand in hand with a complete cure. Thirty-five percent of all COVID-19 survivors and 87% of the COVID-19 survivors who were hospitalized in the course of their illness suffer from after-effects that are currently summarized as post-COVID fatigue syndrome also known as "Long-COVID". As health care workers are at higher risk of contracting SARS CoV2 and furthermore, considering their central role in the overcoming of this pandemic, a COVID-19 rehabilitation program for healthcare workers of the Medical University of Vienna, Austria as well as the General Hospital of Vienna, Austria - together the second-largest university-clinic in the world - was developed as part of workplace health promotion. Nowadays, the fatigue syndrome is primarily known as a side effect of cancer treatment and thus from the rehabilitation of cancer patients. Cancer-related fatigue is a massive limiting side effect for patients and the currently most effective treatment strategy against cancer-associated fatigue syndrome is physical training. The idea for this current project is, that physical exercise might have similar effects on post-SARS-CoV2 fatigue as it has on cancer-related fatigue. The current study evaluates the effects of this primarily exercise-based rehabilitation program on Long-COVID fatigue.

Detailed description

Employees of the Medical University of Vienna, Austria and the General Hospital of Vienna, Austria who survived a SARS-CoV2 infection will be invited to take part in an eight weeks post-COVID-19 rehabilitation program which is part of a workplace health promotion measure. This program consists of eight weeks of exercising (twice per week supervised resistance training + individual, heart-rate controlled endurance training recommendations) with a sports scientist and a sports medicine specialist, complemented by one session of nutrition consultation with a nutritionist and two sessions of psychological consultation with a clinical psychologist. Parallel to this workplace health promotion program, the scientific evaluation of this intevention will be undertaken via this study.

Conditions

• COVID-19

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercise	8 week exercise program, nutritional \& psychological consultation

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-01
• Primary completion: 2021-12-03
• Completion: 2021-12-22
• First posted: 2021-04-12
• Last updated: 2021-12-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Austria