Official Title
Could Digital Interventions Help Understand And "Flatten The Curve" Of Distress Due To Moral Injury Among Health Care Workers During The COVID Pandemic?
Brief Summary

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.

Completed
Moral Injury
Distress, Emotional

Other: Educational moral injury video

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

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Staff or healthcare providers working at Unity Health Toronto

- 18 years of age or older

- Must own a mobile phone running Android Version 6.0 and higher, or an iPhone 6 running
OS 14 and higher)

Exclusion Criterion:

- Non-Unity Health Toronto staff

Eligibility Gender
All
Eligibility Age
Minimum: 18 Years ~ Maximum: N/A
Countries
Canada
Locations

St. Michael's Hospital
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Venkat Bhat, MD MSc, Principal Investigator
Unity Health Toronto

Unity Health Toronto
NCT Number
Keywords
depression
Anxiety
Stress
Moral Injury
Moral distress
Loneliness
MeSH Terms
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic