Stress and Anxiety Affect Residents' Performance

Completed

• Conditions: Stress Disorder; Stress; Work Related Stress

• Registration Number: NCT06200792
• Lead Sponsor: University of Padova

Brief Summary

Being an anesthesiologist implies huge dedication and both physical and psychological efforts. None has ever studied the impact of a working day on anxiety, perceived stress levels, physiological data, and executive functions.

Detailed Description

During a working day, trainees will have their physiological and psychological data recorded before starting their clinical activity and after them. Electrodermal activity with the eSense device, Executive functions through the TOL-R and all the questionnaires and scales will be sampled at the beginning of the day and at the end of the day the same procedure will be applied again (exclusion for PSS-10 scale, STAY-Y trait anxiety and GAD-7) eSense and TOL-R, are useful tools to understand sympathetic activity and executive functions. The galvanometer it is the gold standard to measure EDA; i.e. electrodermal activity, which is a pure sympathetic index, while Tower of London it is the gold standard to assess planning, monitoring and programming skills, both data are supposed to be heavily involved in an anesthesiologist trainee during the all day.

The aims of the study are to evaluate executive functions at the start and at the end of a working day and to understand theirs relationship with anxiety, perceived stress levels and physiological changes in sympathetic activity.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2023-12-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-12-30
• Study Start: 2024-01-01
• Study First Posted: 2024-01-11
• Primary Completion: 2024-03-01
• Status Verified: 2024-12
• Study Completion: 2024-12-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-12-29
• Last Update Posted: 2024-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

• Being an anesthesiologist residents
• Written informed consent obtained

Exclusion Criteria

• Psychiatric disorders
• Neurological disorders
• Suffering from high blood pressure

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Differences in executive functions overtime	baseline and immediately after intervention	Evaluating executive functions at the start and at the end of a working day using the Tower of London test (TOL-R) (scoring 0 (worst score)-30 (better score))

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Differences in dermal activity during working day	baseline and immediately after intervention	Evaluating potential differences in electrodermal activity overtime using microsiemens, counting number of stress response
Assess the general level of anxiety	baseline and immediately after intervention	Measuring levels of anxiety using the generalized anxiety disorder-7 item (GAD-7) (minimum 0, maximum score 21)
General level of anxiety	baseline and immediately after intervention	Measuring the general levels of anxiety with the Stait-trait anxiety inventory (STAI-Y1-2) (1 point=not at all/almost never anxiety; 2=somewhat/sometimes; 3=moderately so/often) and 4= very much so/almost always)
Evaluating the general levels of perceived stress levels	baseline and immediately after intervention	Evaluation of the general levels of perceived stress levels using the perceived stress score (PSS)-10 scale (0 (minimum level of anxiety)-10 (maximum level of anxiety))

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Clinica Odontoiatrica; 🇮🇹 Padova, Italy