The CLAP Study v1.0 [COVID-19]
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The CLAP Study. Caring, Learning And Pandemic response during COVID-19: NHS Staff Experience of Working in Critical Care
IRAS ID
285891
Contact name
Catherine Montgomery
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Edinburgh
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
N/A, N/A
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 15 days
Research summary
Staff experience is central to the quality of healthcare, as well as being an important outcome in and of itself. The current coronavirus outbreak has placed unprecedented demands on critical care units in the UK and has changed the way NHS staff work. We do not know how these changes have affected staff, what helps them to cope and what hinders, or how they could be supported better, both now and in future outbreaks.\nThe aim of this research is to understand the experiences of frontline NHS staff, both critical care and redeployed staff, working on critical care units during the coronavirus outbreak in order to inform professional practice and make recommendations to healthcare managers about how best to support staff both now and in the future. We will conduct telephone interviews with around 30 staff from four hospitals in Scotland and England. We will include nurses, medical staff, healthcare assistants, allied health professionals, and ward clerks. We will ask participants about their experience of changes in working practice, interaction with patients, using technology for family communication, end of life, learning and training during the pandemic, and personal wellbeing and support. We will analyse the data using rapid methods so that we can feed the findings back to healthcare managers and educators quickly. The research is funded by Medical Research Scotland.
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REC reference
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