The COVID-19 Healthcare Personnel Study (CHPS): Overview, Methods and Preliminary Findings
Abstract
Introduction
The onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic has placed severe demands on US health systems and the health care workforce. In New York State (NYS) and New York City (NYC), the early American epicenter, hospitals ran the risk of exhausting supplies of ventilators, ICU beds, and personal protective equipment (PPE); the capacity of the healthcare workforce to meet the added demand was equally strained. The COVID-19 Healthcare Personnel Study (CHPS) was designed to assess adverse short and long-term physical and mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on New York’s physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.
Methods
Population-based online survey of physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants registered with the New York State Department of Health. Survey-weighted descriptive results were analyzed using frequencies, proportions, and means, with 95% confidence intervals. Odds ratios were calculated for association using survey-weighted logistic regression.
Results
Over half (51.5%; 95% CI 49.1, 54.0) of respondents worked directly with COVID-19 patients. Among those tested, 27.3% (95% CI 22.5, 32.2) were positive. The majority (57.6%; 95% CI 55.2, 60.0) of respondents reported that the COVID-19 pandemic had a negative impact on their mental health. Negative mental health was associated with experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 (OR=1.7, 95% CI 1.3, 2.1) and redeployment to unfamiliar functions. (OR=1.3, 95% CI 1.1, 1.6).
Conclusions
A majority of New York healthcare providers were involved in treating COVID-19 patients and reported that the pandemic had a negative impact on their mental health.
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