Impact of a Stress Coping Strategy on Perceived Stress Levels and Performance During a Simulated Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 124
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Average level of stress/overload during the resuscitation period
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This study assessed the impact of a task-focusing strategy on perceived stress levels and performance during a simulated CPR scenario.
Detailed Description
Background: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) causes significant stress, which may cause deficiencies in attention and increase distractibility. This may lead to misjudgements of priorities and delays in CPR performance, which may further increase mental stress (vicious cycle).
Aim: This study assessed the impact of a task-focusing strategy on perceived stress levels and performance during a simulated CPR scenario.
Methods: This is a prospective, randomized-controlled trial
Setting: Simulator-center of the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
Participants: A total of 124 volunteer medical students
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Masking
- Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 20 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •4th year medical students
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Average level of stress/overload during the resuscitation period
Time Frame: In the first 120 seconds after the onset of the cardiac arrest
The primary outcome was the average level of stress/overload during the resuscitation period for the experimental and the control group.
Secondary Outcomes
- hands-on time(in the first 120 seconds after the onset of the cardiac arrest.)
- time elapsed until CPR was started(in the first 120 seconds after the onset of the cardiac arrest)
- leadership statements(in the first 120 seconds after the onset of the cardiac arrest)