Study protocol: assessment of the usefulness and practicability of a psychoeducational intervention to prevent the negative psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care health workers

Table 2 Study variables

Assessment area	Instrument	Time of assessment ^a
		Tpre	T0	T3	T6
*Healthcare workers participating in the intervention*
Age, sex, marital status, family characteristics	Sociodemographic data form	x
Profession, employment status, seniority in the workplace, health center where they work	Workplace characteristics form	x
General health status	SF-12 questionnaire (item 1)	x
Previous and/or current mental disorders, psychopharmacologic or psychological treatment	Mental health form	x
Professional quality of life: compassion satisfaction, perceived support, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and moral distress	ProQOL	x	x	x	x
Psychological state: depression, anxiety, and stress	Depression, Anxiety, and Stress scales (DASS-21)	x	x	x	x
Resilience	Connor-Davidson Resilience scale (CD-RISC 10)	x	x	x	x
Level of attendance to the program sessions	Self-reported form		x
Participants’ satisfaction with and suggestions for improvement of the program	Self-reported form		x
Participants’ perceptions of usefulness and feasibility of learned skills in their personal and professional life	Self-reported form		x	x	x
*Community psychologists*
Actual adherence to the standard program and achievement of objectives	Quality checklist		x
*Qualitative methods*
Facilitators, barriers and proposals for improvement	Focus groups with community psychologists		x
Facilitators, barriers and proposals for improvement	Focus groups and in-depth interviews with participants		x

^a The assessment points are established at baseline, i.e., before the intervention (Tpre), immediately after the intervention (T0), at 3 months (T3) and at 6 months (T6)

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