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| ID | Type | Description | Link |
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| SMH-20-037 | Other Grant/Funding Number | St. Michael's Hospital AFP Innovation Fund | |
| ML42588 | Other Grant/Funding Number | Roche Canada COVID-19 Innovation Challenge |
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| Name | Class |
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| Toronto Metropolitan University | OTHER |
| University of Toronto | OTHER |
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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.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Mobile Intervention Group | Experimental | One half of the participants will receive personalized automated alerts throughout their involvement. |
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| Control Group | No Intervention | For 4 weeks, the other half of the participants will not receive personalized automated alerts. After 4 weeks, these alerts will be enabled. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Mobile Intervention | Other | 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. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Perceived Stress Scale | The primary outcome measure will be the ten-item Perceived Stress Scale. Scores range from 0 to 40, and higher scores indicate more severe stress. | At 4 weeks from baseline |
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| Perceived Stress Scale | The primary outcome measure will be the ten-item Perceived Stress Scale. Scores range from 0 to 40, and higher scores indicate more severe stress. | At 12 weeks from baseline |
| Active Data - Short UCLA Loneliness Scale |
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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 |
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| ID | Term |
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| D003863 | Depression |
| D001008 | Anxiety Disorders |
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| D001526 | Behavioral Symptoms |
| D001519 | Behavior |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
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Upon logging into the study platform, half of the participants will be automatically randomized to receive (for 4 weeks) daily-personalized automated alerts (The mobile intervention). This feature will be made available to all participants after 4 weeks. Hence, for the first 4 weeks, this study can be described as having a parallel group study model. After 4 weeks, the study switches to a single group study model, and can therefore be described as having a single group interventional model after 4 weeks from the start date until the rest of the duration of the study.
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Participants will be issued a specific ID number to be used within the mobile app to ensure that any identifiable information within this app will remain anonymous. A master linking log will serve as the only link between participants and the study data collected in the mobile app.
Short, 3-item scale; scores range from 3 to 9, and higher scores indicate more severe loneliness symptoms. Feasibility of the mobile platform will be indicated by a significant reduction in score.
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| Active Data - Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale | 7-item scale; scores range from 0 to 21, and higher scores indicate more severe anxiety symptoms. Feasibility of the mobile platform will be indicated by a significant reduction in score. | At 4 weeks from baseline |
| Active Data - Patient Health Questionnaire | 9-item scale; scores range from 0 to 27, and higher scores indicate more severe depression symptoms. Feasibility of the mobile platform will be indicated by a significant reduction in score. | At 4 weeks from baseline |
| Passive Data - GPS Sample Point Metrics | Feasibility of the mobile platform will be determined by the number of GPS sample points (mobility metrics) collected per user per day. | At 4 weeks from baseline |