RESTART Trials: Reducing Error in ER Settings Through Attention Restoration Theory
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 撤回
- 主要终点
- Working memory
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this research study is to find out about how looking at different types of pictures can affect people's attention spans. Attention Restoration Theory (ART) suggests that there are two types of attention. One type (directed attention) can become tired and cause people to make mistakes. The other type (involuntary attention) gives directed attention a chance to rest, so people make less mistakes. Certain types of pictures are good at capturing involuntary attention. We think that capturing involuntary attention will help emergency physicians make less mistakes on tests of attention. This study will allow us to learn more about it.
详细描述
In this study, participants will be asked to do the following things:
- Before their usual shift in the emergency department, arrive ten minutes early to rate their mood and complete a Digit Span Backwards (DSB) task that tests their memory of different sets of numbers.
- Five hours into their shift, they will take a ten minute break.
- During this break, they will be randomly assigned to view either a picture presentation of nature slides or urban slides.
- After the presentation, they will complete the Digit Span Backwards task again, they will rate their mood again, then return to their shift.
Participation in this study will last up to 30 minutes. Approximately fifty individuals will participate in this study.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Emergency Medicine Resident of any PGY level. (1-5)
排除标准
- •Anybody under the age of 18
- •Pregnancy
研究组 & 干预措施
Nature
干预措施: Nature slides (Behavioral)
Urban
干预措施: Urban slides (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Working memory
时间窗: 5 hours
Working memory will be assessed using the Digit Span test. Participants are read a sequence of numbers and asked to repeat the same sequence back to the examiner in order (forward span) or in reverse order (backward span). Number of correctly repeated numbers is summed to yield a score ranging from 0 to 28. Higher scores indicated better working memory
Positive mood
时间窗: 5 hours
Positive mood will be assess using the positive affect (PA) scale of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). The PA scale consists of 10 adjectives which are rated on a 5 point scale from slightly or not at all to extremely. Items are summed to yield a score ranging from 10 to 50 with higher number indicating higher affect.
Negative mood
时间窗: 5 hours
Negative mood will be assess using the negative affect (NA) scale of the PANAS. The NA scale consists of 10 adjectives which are rated on a 5 point scale from slightly or not at all to extremely. Items are summed to yield a score ranging from 10 to 50 with higher number indicating higher affect.
次要结局
未报告次要终点