The Effects of Regular OMT on Stress Levels and Cognitive Function in OMS-I Students at Touro COM-NY Harlem
概览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 干预措施
- 未指定
- 疾病 / 适应症
- Stress, Job
- 发起方
- The Touro College and University System
- 入组人数
- 10
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- LPI
- 状态
- 已完成
- 最后更新
- 2年前
概览
简要总结
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate stress biomarkers, subjective stress levels, and cognitive function in medical students. The main question[s] it aims to answer are:
Does regular osteopathic manipulative treatment affect stress in medical students? Does regular osteopathic manipulative treatment affect cognitive function in medical students?
Participants will be split into two groups, control and treatment, and undergo a designated protocol for six weeks. The treatment protocol will include weekly sessions of three OMT techniques: paraspinal inhibition, rib raising, and condylar decompression. Concurrently, participants' salivary cortisol levels will be collected weekly and analyzed using an Invitrogen ELISA Immunoassay Kit. Additionally, cognitive function will be assessed weekly via Lumosity, while stress levels are gauged using the College Student Stress Scale (CSSS) survey.
Researchers will compare one cohort of medical students who receive weekly OMT and another cohort of medical students who have weekly check-ins without OMT to see if OMT can affect changes in stress biomarkers, subjective stress scales, and cognitive function.
研究者
Mikhail Volokitin, MD, DO.
Assistant Professor
The Touro College and University System
入排标准
入选标准
- •First-year medical students
- •Not currently receiving osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT)
排除标准
- •History of spinal surgery
结局指标
主要结局
LPI
时间窗: Weekly, over the course of 8 week study
Learning Performance Index Metric from Lumosity
Weekly Cortisol Level
时间窗: Weekly, over the course of 8 week study
Salivary Cortisol as measured in an ELISA Immunoassay
College Student Subjective Stress Survey (CSSS) Numerical Score
时间窗: Weekly, over the course of 8 week study
Numerical Score collected from the College Student Subjective Stress Survey, a 10-item survey investigating occurrence of stressors over the course of a week, with each item being rated from 1 (Never) to 5 (Very Often). A lower score reflects lower perceived stress while a higher score reflects higher perceived stress.