NCT05072210

Mobile Interventions for the Prevention and Detection of Distress

Could Mobile-based Interventions Aid To "Understand and Flatten the Curve" of Stress, Anxiety, Distress and Depression Among Healthcare Providers at Unity Health Toronto During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 13 (actual)
• Sponsor: Unity Health Toronto · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Stress, anxiety, distress and depression are exceptionally high among healthcare providers at the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. Knowledge of factors underlying distress and resilience and evidence based interventions to impact the mental wellbeing of frontline healthcare providers is limited. This study will evaluate a novel mobile platform to gather the "distress experience" of healthcare workers at Unity Health Toronto in real time during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, use automated personalized mobile interventions (e.g. routine, sleep, exercise) to nudge active/passive parameters to manage distress.

Conditions

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Stress
• Loneliness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mobile Intervention	Active mobile data will be used to provide automated, personalized notifications to frontline healthcare workers. Key information on mental health and links to access additional health resources will be available on the mobile platform.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-01
• Primary completion: 2023-09-12
• Completion: 2023-09-12
• First posted: 2021-10-08
• Last updated: 2023-09-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada