The Impact of Stress in Residents' Performance
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Stress
- Sponsor
- University of Padova
- Enrollment
- 40
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Differences in executive functions overtime
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
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.
Investigators
Annalisa Boscolo
Principal investigator
University of Padova
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Being an anesthesiologist residents
- •Written informed consent obtained
Exclusion Criteria
- •Psychiatric disorders
- •Neurological disorders
- •Suffering from high blood pressure
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Differences in executive functions overtime
Time Frame: 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 Outcomes
- Differences in dermal activity during working day(baseline and immediately after intervention)
- Assess the general level of anxiety(baseline and immediately after intervention)
- General level of anxiety(baseline and immediately after intervention)
- Evaluating the general levels of perceived stress levels(baseline and immediately after intervention)