Effects of Preventive Physiological and Psychological Interventions on Performances During Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for Medical Students: Cardiac Biofeedback, Mindfulness, or Inner Resources Mobilization
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 490
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Mean of quantitative performance score for all the exam
研究概览
简要总结
Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a newly implemented evaluation standard for medical students and is a determinant part of the national competition they have to undergo.
Exam periods are significantly associated with increased stress and anxiety which led to reduced performance, impaired memorization and impaired workload capacities.
Cardiac biofeedback and mindfulness techniques are efficient methods for stress reduction. Interventions that aim to mobilize competence, such as mobilization of inner strength and resources techniques, should improve the level of preparation of medical students. These three procedures could influence the stress level and improve performance during the OSCE.
There is currently no study exploring the effect of these physiological and psychological procedures on the performance during OSCE for medical students.
详细描述
This randomized, controlled, monocentric study will take place during mandatory rehearsal of Objective Structured Clinical Examination for third year medical students. For examination purposes, the students will be divided into four groups that will undergo identical exams at the same time in four parallel circuits.
Before entering the station of OSCE and before being involved in the research, all the students will receive information about the study and sign a consent form.
Participants will undergo short questionnaires regarding inner resources available to accomplish the exam and questionnaire exploring self-confidence.
Then the groups of students will be randomized in four intervention groups before the examination circuit. All the interventions will last six minutes long. The randomization groups are:
- Cardiac biofeedback (guided through a video with a breathing cursus and visual cardiac feedback)
- Mindfulness (guided through a video)
- Resources and Inner Strength Mobilization (guided through a video)
- Control group (guided through a neutral-content video)
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
- Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
盲法说明
Performance is evaluated by assessors who are blind to the intervention
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
- •Adult person
- •Registered as medical student at the university
- •Participating at OSCE examination
- •Have signed an informed consent form.
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Mean of quantitative performance score for all the exam
时间窗: rated during the exam, calculated during the first 2 weeks after the exam
Mean of quantitative performance score for all the exam (mean of the five performance score for the 5 stations of the exam (from zero to maximum: 40). Each objective performance score of a station is determined by a specific scenario grid performance.) The primary outcome will be determined by university examiners who are independent of the study and blinded to the interventions.
次要结局
- Mean Differences in Subjective Performance(rated during the OSCE, calculated during the first 2 weeks after the OSCE)
- Mean Differences in Three Objective Performance sub-scores(rated during the exam, calculated during the first 2 weeks after the exam)
- Mean Differences in Hetero-Evaluated Emotional Performance(Once - in the 2 minutes after the OSCE station)
- Mean Differences in Auto-evaluated Emotional Performance(during the first 5 minutes just after OSCE)
- Mean Difference of Inner Resource(Two times : 10min before OSCE (before intervention) and just 2 minutes before the OSCE (after intervention))
- Mean difference of perceived impact of the intervention on performance(Just 5 minutes after the OSCE)
- Mean Differences of Self confidence(Two times : 10min before OSCE (before intervention) and just 2 minutes before the OSCE (after intervention))
研究者
Lilot Marc
Director
Claude Bernard University