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| ID | Type | Description | Link |
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| CPCA-0592 | Other Grant/Funding Number | DND Canada: IDEaS Competitive Projects |
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| Name | Class |
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| Toronto Metropolitan University | OTHER |
| University of Toronto | OTHER |
| University of Ontario Institute of Technology | OTHER |
| McMaster University |
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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.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Experimental Arm | Experimental | VR simulation exercise with a digital follow-up component to help assess the physiological and psychological indicators of moral distress |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Educational moral injury video | Other | 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 |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| 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. | 60 minutes (during the intervention) |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| 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 | Up to 8 weeks |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criterion:
- Non-Unity Health Toronto staff
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Venkat Bhat, MD MSc | Unity Health Toronto | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| St. Michael's Hospital | Toronto | Ontario | M5B 1W8 | Canada |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 38194247 | Derived | Espinola CW, Nguyen B, Torres A, Sim W, Rueda A, Beavers L, Campbell DM, Jung H, Lou W, Kapralos B, Peter E, Dubrowski A, Krishnan S, Bhat V. Digital Interventions for Stress Among Frontline Health Care Workers: Results From a Pilot Feasibility Cohort Trial. JMIR Serious Games. 2024 Jan 9;12:e42813. doi: 10.2196/42813. | |
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| Type | Date | Date Unknown |
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| Release | Dec 23, 2022 | |
| Reset | Oct 24, 2023 |
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| Release Date | Unrelease Date | Unrelease Date Unknown | Reset Date | MCP Release Number |
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| Dec 23, 2022 | Oct 24, 2023 |
| ID | Term |
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| D013313 | Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic |
| D003863 | Depression |
| D001008 | Anxiety Disorders |
| ID | Term |
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| D040921 | Stress Disorders, Traumatic |
| D000068099 | Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
| D001526 | Behavioral Symptoms |
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Users will go through a VR experiment before and after a brief interventional informative video describing moral distress. The VR experiment is a simulation that will lead the participant through a stressful experience about moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before, during, and after the experiment, active and physiological data will be collected from the participant to monitor their level of acute distress and health, respectively. Following the experiment, active and passive data will be collected on each user through the investigators' mobile platform (DiiG) for longitudinal monitoring of moral distress and injury.
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| Nguyen B, Torres A, Sim W, Kenny D, Campbell DM, Beavers L, Lou W, Kapralos B, Peter E, Dubrowski A, Krishnan S, Bhat V. Digital Interventions to Reduce Distress Among Health Care Providers at the Frontline: Protocol for a Feasibility Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2022 Feb 16;11(2):e32240. doi: 10.2196/32240. |
| D001519 | Behavior |