Stress, anxiety, distress and depression are exceptionally high among healthcare workers at the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. Factors underlying distress and resilience are unknown and there are no evidence based interventions to impact the mental wellbeing of frontline healthcare workers. This study will evaluate a novel virtual reality platform to gather the "distress experience" of frontline healthcare workers at Unity Health Toronto in real time during the ongoing COVID pandemic by developing and showing feasibility of digital technology (Virtual Reality (VR) and mobile app) as a digital platform to understand the causes and ultimately reduce the moral distress of healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will develop innovations which can be used for future pandemics and other contexts prone to producing moral distress and injury.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
15
Educational video that addresses the identification of moral injury and distress in frontline healthcare workers during COVID-19; offers available interventions at the levels of individual, team and organization
St. Michael's Hospital
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Feasibility evaluation of the virtual reality environment
The primary outcome measure will be a comparison of MIOS (Moral Injury Outcome Scale) and PSS (Perceived Stress Scale) scores before and after watching an educational video on moral injury; feasibility of this platform will be assessed based on a feasibility questionnaire and changes in score.
Time frame: 60 minutes (during the intervention)
Feasibility evaluation of a mobile platform to understand the continuum of stress and moral distress.
Feasibility of the mobile platform will be measured based on dropout rate
Time frame: Up to 8 weeks
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