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| Name | Class |
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| Institut et Haute Ecole de la Santé la Source | OTHER |
| University of Lausanne Hospitals | OTHER |
| Haute école de travail social et de la santé Lausanne - HETSL | UNKNOWN |
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The healthcare system is continuously evolving to adapt to the population's needs, both in terms of healthcare practices, and in financial and organizational aspects. The current COVID-19 pandemic has added additional pressure to the healthcare system and shown its limits in terms of preparedness. It has also shown once again that both healthcare professionals (HCPs) and informal caregivers (ICs) play a central role for the functioning of the healthcare system.
An increasing number of studies are alerting on HCPs' situation, regarding their physical and mental health (e.g. emotional exhaustion, professional well-being) on the one hand, and the functioning of the healthcare system (e.g. absenteeism, turnover, career change) on the other hand.
Besides healthcare professionals, ICs, defined as "a person in the immediate entourage of an individual whose health and/or autonomy is impaired and who requires assistance with certain [basic or instrumental] activities of daily living. The IC provides the person, on a non-professional and informal basis, and on a regular basis, with assistance, care or presence services of varying nature and intensity, designed to compensate for their incapacities or difficulties or to ensure their safety, identity and social ties". Caring for others has shown to have negative impact on the ICs' life, in terms of health-related implications, psychological burden, quality of life, etc. Despite being increasingly recognized as having a key role in the provision of care, they have only been limitedly considered in studies on healthcare professionals.
In that context, the investigators develop SCOHPICA project, the Swiss cohort of healthcare professionals and informal caregivers, which is an open prospective national cohort using a concurrent embedded mixed method design. This project targets all types of HCPs and ICs, and will investigate determinants of intent to stay and well-being according to participants' trajectories.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Healthcare professionals | All type of healthcare professionals (HCPs), working in a variety of settings and across Switzerland |
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| Informal caregivers | All type of informal caregivers (ICs), aged 18 and over, assisting a person for health reasons across Switzerland |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Electronic surveys | Other | Online questionnaires is used to collect data, at recruitment and follow-up once a year. For the ICs, paper questionnaire will be provided upon request. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Professional trajectories (HCPs), constructed from socio-professional variables [1] | Professional trajectories will be formulated based on socio-professional information (current and past occupation, education, work setting, career continuity, part-time contracts). Clustering procedures will be used to group healthcare professionals with similar trajectories, building thus a typology of professional trajectories in the Swiss health workforce. | At baseline |
| Professional trajectories (HCPs), constructed from socio-professional variables [2] | Follow-up data will be used to complement the professional trajectories constructed on baseline socio-professional information. Changes in the variables which form the trajectories will be assessed and new typologies will be derived from the enhanced trajectories. | 1 year after the baseline |
| Professional trajectories (HCPs), constructed from socio-professional variables [3] | Follow-up data will be used to complement the professional trajectories constructed on baseline socio-professional information. Changes in the variables which form the trajectories will be assessed and new typologies will be derived from the enhanced trajectories. | 2 years after the baseline |
| Professional trajectories (HCPs), constructed from socio-professional variables [4] | Follow-up data will be used to complement the professional trajectories constructed on baseline socio-professional information. Changes in the variables which form the trajectories will be assessed and new typologies will be derived from the enhanced trajectories. | 3 years after the baseline |
| Professional trajectories (HCPs), constructed from socio-professional variables [5] | Follow-up data will be used to complement the professional trajectories constructed on baseline socio-professional information. Changes in the variables which form the trajectories will be assessed and new typologies will be derived from the enhanced trajectories. |
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Inclusion Criteria (HCPs):
Exclusion Criteria (HCPs):
Inclusion Criteria (ICs):
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Any type of HCPs, having direct patient-contact and working in any type of settings across Switzerland
Any type of informal caregivers (ICs), aged 18 and over, assisting a person for health reasons across Switzerland
| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Study coordinator | Contact | +41 21 314 77 25 | scohpica@unisante.ch |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux, MD, DSc, MPH | Unisanté | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisante), University of Lausanne, Switzerland | Recruiting | Lausanne | 1010 | Switzerland |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 37864432 | Background | Roth L, Le Saux C, Gilles I, Peytremann-Bridevaux I. Factors Associated With Intent to Leave the Profession for the Allied Health Workforce: A Rapid Review. Med Care Res Rev. 2024 Feb;81(1):3-18. doi: 10.1177/10775587231204105. Epub 2023 Oct 21. | |
| 39208304 | Background | Peytremann-Bridevaux I, Jolidon V, Jubin J, Zuercher E, Roth L, Escasain L, Carron T, Courvoisier N, Oulevey Bachmann A, Gilles I. Protocol for the Swiss COhort of Healthcare Professionals and Informal CAregivers (SCOHPICA): Professional trajectories, intention to stay in or leave the job and well-being of healthcare professionals. PLoS One. 2024 Aug 29;19(8):e0309665. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309665. eCollection 2024. |
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| SCOHPICA website | View source |
| ID | Type | URL | Comment |
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| 10.16909-dataset-46 | Individual Participant Data Set | View IPD |
Metadata will be deposited on DATA@UNISANTE.
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The datasets will be accessible a few months after each measure.
The datasets will be accessible under the following conditions:
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| Qualitative Interviews | Other | Remote focus groups or semi-structured interviews will be proposed to a subsample of the participants, first in 2025 and then every two years |
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| 4 years after the baseline |
| Intention to stay in the profession/position (HCPs) [1] | Assessed using two questions: 1) intent to stay in the profession and 2) intent to stay in the current position | At baseline |
| Intention to stay in the profession/position (HCPs) [2] | Assessed using two questions: 1) intent to stay in the profession and 2) intent to stay in the current position | 1 year after the baseline |
| Intention to stay in the profession/position (HCPs) [3] | Assessed using two questions: 1) intent to stay in the profession and 2) intent to stay in the current position | 2 years after the baseline |
| Intention to stay in the profession/position (HCPs) [4] | Assessed using two questions: 1) intent to stay in the profession and 2) intent to stay in the current position | 3 years after the baseline |
| Intention to stay in the profession/position (HCPs) [5] | Assessed using two questions: 1) intent to stay in the profession and 2) intent to stay in the current position | 4 years after the baseline |
| Intention to leave the profession/position/health sector (HCPs) [1] | Assessed using three questions: within next 5 years …1) intent to leave the profession, 2) intent to leave the current position and 3) intent to leave the health sector | At baseline |
| Intention to leave the profession/position/health sector (HCPs) [2] | Assessed using three questions: within next 5 years …1) intent to leave the profession, 2) intent to leave the current position and 3) intent to leave the health sector | 1 year after the baseline |
| Intention to leave the profession/position/health sector (HCPs) [3] | Assessed using three questions: within next 5 years …1) intent to leave the profession, 2) intent to leave the current position and 3) intent to leave the health sector | 2 years after the baseline |
| Intention to leave the profession/position/health sector (HCPs) [4] | Assessed using three questions: within next 5 years …1) intent to leave the profession, 2) intent to leave the current position and 3) intent to leave the health sector | 3 years after the baseline |
| Intention to leave the profession/position/health sector (HCPs) [5] | Assessed using three questions: within next 5 years …1) intent to leave the profession, 2) intent to leave the current position and 3) intent to leave the health sector | 4 years after the baseline |
| Well-being (HCPs) [1] | Assessed using the10 items of the Flourish Index (FI). FI score can range from 0 (lowest response category for the 10 items) to 10 (highest response category for the 10 items). High scores imply that respondents perceive themselves very positively in terms of human flourishing. | At baseline |
| Well-being (HCPs) [2] | Assessed using the10 items of the Flourish Index (FI). FI score can range from 0 (lowest response category for the 10 items) to 10 (highest response category for the 10 items). High scores imply that respondents perceive themselves very positively in terms of human flourishing. | 1 year after the baseline |
| Well-being (HCPs) [3] | Assessed using the10 items of the Flourish Index (FI). FI score can range from 0 (lowest response category for the 10 items) to 10 (highest response category for the 10 items). High scores imply that respondents perceive themselves very positively in terms of human flourishing. | 2 years after the baseline |
| Well-being (HCPs) [4] | Assessed using the10 items of the Flourish Index (FI). FI score can range from 0 (lowest response category for the 10 items) to 10 (highest response category for the 10 items). High scores imply that respondents perceive themselves very positively in terms of human flourishing. | 3 years after the baseline |
| Well-being (HCPs) [5] | Assessed using the10 items of the Flourish Index (FI). FI score can range from 0 (lowest response category for the 10 items) to 10 (highest response category for the 10 items). High scores imply that respondents perceive themselves very positively in terms of human flourishing. | 4 years after the baseline |
| 40205362 | Result | Gilles I, Le Saux C, Zuercher E, Jubin J, Roth L, Bachmann AO, Peytremann-Bridevaux I. Work experiences of healthcare professionals in a shortage context: analysis of open-ended comments in a Swiss cohort (SCOHPICA). BMC Health Serv Res. 2025 Apr 9;25(1):520. doi: 10.1186/s12913-025-12659-z. |
| 38905588 | Result | Roth L, Gilles I, Antille E, Jubin J, Jolidon V, Oulevey-Bachmann A, Peytremann-Bridevaux I. Factors associated with intent to stay in the profession: an exploratory cluster analysis across healthcare professions in Switzerland. Eur J Public Health. 2024 Dec 1;34(6):1146-1148. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckae100. |
| 39132382 | Result | Jolidon V, Jubin J, Zuercher E, Roth L, Carron T, Oulevey Bachmann A, Gilles I, Peytremann-Bridevaux I. Health Workforce Challenges: Key Findings From the Swiss Cohort of Healthcare Professionals and Informal Caregivers (SCOHPICA). Int J Public Health. 2024 Jul 26;69:1607419. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2024.1607419. eCollection 2024. |