NCT05571488: SCOHPICA

Swiss Cohort of Health Professionals and Informal Caregivers

Recruiting now Last updated 6 January 2026

What this trial tests

trial testing Electronic surveys in Healthcare Professional in 6,000 participants. Currently enrolling.

Timeline

1 October 2022

Primary endpoint
31 January 2026

31 December 2026

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisante), University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Status	Recruiting now
Study type	OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment	6,000
Start date	1 October 2022
Primary completion	31 January 2026
Estimated completion	31 December 2026
Sites	1 location across Switzerland

Drugs / interventions tested

• Electronic surveys
• Qualitative Interviews

Conditions studied

• Healthcare Professional — all drugs for Healthcare Professional →
• Informal Caregiver — all drugs for Informal Caregiver →

Sponsor

Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisante), University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Healthcare Professional or Informal Caregiver. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

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.

Publications & conference data

4 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Work experiences of healthcare professionals in a shortage context: analysis of open-ended comments in a Swiss cohort (SCOHPICA).
   Gilles I, Le Saux C, Zuercher E, Jubin J, et al · · 2025 · cited 3× · PMID 40205362 · DOI 10.1186/s12913-025-12659-z
2. Factors associated with intent to stay in the profession: an exploratory cluster analysis across healthcare professions in Switzerland.
   Roth L, Gilles I, Antille E, Jubin J, et al · · 2024 · cited 3× · PMID 38905588 · DOI 10.1093/eurpub/ckae100
3. 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.
   Peytremann-Bridevaux I, Jolidon V, Jubin J, Zuercher E, et al · · 2024 · cited 1× · PMID 39208304 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0309665
4. Collecting Essential Data on Healthcare Professionals' Career Trajectories With Life History Calendars.
   Berchtold A, Roth L, Oulevey Bachmann A, Jubin J, et al · · 2026 · PMID 41743160 · DOI 10.3389/ijph.2026.1609261