Protocol of the Study on Emergency Health Care Workers’ Responses Evaluated by Karasek Questionnaire: The SEEK-Study Protocol

Jean-Baptiste Bouillon-Minois, Marion Trousselard, Bruno Pereira, Jeannot Schmidt, Maelys Clinchamps, David Thivel, Ukadike Chris Ugbolue, Farès Moustafa, Céline Occelli, Guillaume Vallet and Frédéric Dutheil
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Jean-Baptiste Bouillon-Minois: Emergency Department, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Marion Trousselard: French Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute, BP73, 91223 Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
Bruno Pereira: Clinical Research and Innovation Direction, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Jeannot Schmidt: Emergency Department, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Maelys Clinchamps: Occupational and Environmental Medicine, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
David Thivel: Laboratory of the Metabolic Adaptations to Exercise under Physiological and Pathological Conditions (AME2P), Université Clermont Auvergne, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Ukadike Chris Ugbolue: Institute for Clinical Exercise & Health Science, University of the West of Scotland, Glasgow G720LH, UK
Farès Moustafa: Emergency Department, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Céline Occelli: Emergency Department, CHU Nice, 06000 Nice, France
Guillaume Vallet: LaPSCo, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Frédéric Dutheil: LaPSCo, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 8, 1-11

Abstract: Background: Stress is a significant public health concern that can be self-evaluated using the job control demands model from Karasek. Emergency health care workers are particularly exposed to stress because of the intrinsic characteristics associated with the job (i.e., life-threatening emergencies, overcrowding, lack of bed spaces). However, these attributes have never been studied using the Karasek model. Methods: An observational, prospective, multicentric study in French Emergency Departments will be conducted using a cohort of emergency health care workers. Four questionnaires before a control day and after a nightshift will be assessed every 5 years in the same emergency departments. Also, the Karasek questionnaire, a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Maslach Burnout Inventory scale, the Hospital Anxiety, Depression Scale, and a food intake questionnaire will be evaluated. Salivary biomarkers (cortisol, immunoglobulin A, lysozyme) will be collected from every emergency health care worker who consents to participating in the study. Conclusion: This study will provide a point of care for the emergency health care workers’ stress situation every 5 years. Ethics: This protocol was registered in Clinical Trials under the identification NCT02401607 after the French Ethics Committee’s approval.

Keywords: Karasek questionnaire; job demand; job strain; shiftwork; nutrition; emergency physician; stress; job control; biomarkers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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