In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Emergency Department (ED) are in front line for the reception of patients presenting COVID-19 symptoms and have to face a new situation given the expected number of patients. Staff participate in suspect patients triage, in the diagnosis and the management of Covid-19 patients, having to follow the instructions and recommendations that evolve in real time, depending on the stage, resources and means available. This situation requires that the staff immediately adaptation within this reorganization and redeployment of the activity. Then; they are subject to many stress and anxiety factors such as: * Increased activity: massive influx of patients, overload of work, lack of material and human resources * Modification of practices: training in procedures, measures isolation and prevention of contamination of other patients, replacement by professionals reassigned from other departments * Ethical dilemma: decisions to be made in an emergency, patient prioritization * Numerous, evolving information, from various sources and sometimes contradictory (national, governance, service, media) * Individual: fear of personal contamination and of those close to you, personal organization in a situation of confinement of the population, loss of usual social support * Anxiety and stress management of patients and relatives, their entourage and colleagues In this study, it is proposed to study the psychic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department staff.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
247
Emergency department staff will be asked to fill in questionnaires in order to measure their stress and anxiety level, their propensity to have a burn-out, their consumption of psychoactive substances such as alcohol, tobacco, coffee or anxiolytic, their sleep disorder.
SAMU Hospices Civils de Lyon
Lyon, France
Service d'accueil des urgences, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices Civlis de Lyon
Lyon, France
Service d'accueil des urgences, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Hospices Civils de Lyon
Lyon, France
Service d'accueil des urgences, Hôpital Lyon Sud, Hospices Civils de Lyon
Pierre-Bénite, France
Hôpital de Villefranche-sur-Saône
Villefranche-sur-Saône, France
Change of emergency department staff's level of stress during the covid19 pandemic, measured using the Chamoux et Simard visual analogic scale
The level of stress will be measured using the Chamoux et Simard visual analogic scale. This scale is composed of 3 subscales evaluating the stress level at work, at home and in the life in general. Each scale are rating from 0 to 10, 0 being the absence of stress and 10 the highest level of stress ever experienced a cotation at each scale greater than 6 will defined the presence of a stress.
Time frame: Every 15 days from baseline to 3 months
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