Emotion Tracking Study for Residents

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Stress, Emotional
• Interventions: Behavioral: EmoTrak

• Registration Number: NCT02947477
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco

Brief Summary

The proposed study will develop and pilot a fourteen-day assessment tailored for the high-demand schedule of residents through a smart phone intervention, EmoTrak.EmoTrak uses ecological measurement assessment (EMA), which solicits real-time user feedback at various time points across a series of days or weeks.

Detailed Description

The investigators will perform a randomized controlled trial that compares residents, using EmoTrak with a wait list control group. After two weeks, the active control group becomes the treatment group. All participants will be evaluated four times from at baseline to two months. The measures to explore for any pre and post change are stress reduction on the emotional exhaustion scale of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and improved resilience on the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS).

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-10
• Study First Submitted: 2016-10-24
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-10-25
• Study First Posted: 2016-10-28
• Primary Completion: 2017-12-17
• Study Completion: 2017-12-17
• Status Verified: 2020-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-01-14
• Last Update Posted: 2020-01-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

• Currently in Residency or Fellowship at UCSF

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Exclusion Criteria

• Not having an Iphone

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Treatment	EmoTrak	The EMA intervention uses twice-a-day interactive questions for emotion tracking including type of emotion, intensity of emotion, trigger to emotion and response to emotion through an Iphone app designed for the study. The study users receive individualized feedback about their daily reporting of emotions, sleep and stress.The study tracking is for 14 days.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Retention of Participants Iphone App for Residents	14 days	Quantify amount of drop out through out the 14 day study and how many reports are responded two daily
Acceptability of Iphone App for Residents Online Evaluation and Mini Interviews	30 days	Evaluate online questions and qualitative mini interviews about the usability of the app

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Real Time Assessment Comparison to Standardized Measures	35 days	Compare Pre, Post and Midway Assessments of Stress, Burnout and Emotion Awareness with daily, longitudinal measures to explore relationships between these sources of data.
Ecological Assessment of Emotions Compared to Standardized Emotion Awareness Measures, PANAS	14 days	Comparing the daily reports of emotions in comparison to the PANAS scale of last week of experienced emotions
Ecological Assessment of Stress Compared to Standardized Perceived Stress and Emotional Exhaustion from the Maslach Burnout Inventory	14 days	Comparing the daily reports of stress s in comparison to the week of stress as measured by PSS and MBI.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of California; 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States