Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03698123
Performance Nutrition for Residents and Fellows
Performance Nutrition for Residents and Fellows Working Overnight Shifts: A Pilot Study
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 61 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Stanford University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 21 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
Currently, residents commonly experience dehydration and poor nutrition during nighttime duty hours as a result of heavy work load, lack of time to take nutrition and hydration breaks, or limited or no access to healthy food and drinks which may affect residents' work performance. The goal of this study is to compare the effects of two different meal compositions with no typical dietary practices (existing conditions) on work performance of the on-call residents during night shifts.
Detailed description
The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of dietary modifications on resident physicians' work performance during night shifts. Specific objectives are: 1. To assess the effects of macronutrient composition of the test meals on cognitive performance, self-reported sleepiness and fatigue of resident physicians during night-time duty. 2. To compare to no intervention, the effects of providing meals before 22:00 hours, and only providing chewing gum, tea, coffee and water onwards to on-call residents, on cognitive performance, self-reported sleepiness and fatigue of resident physicians during night-time duty.
Conditions
- Physician Well-being
- Cognitive Function
- Diet Modification
- Diet Habit
- Shift-Work Related Sleep Disturbance
- Sleep Deprivation
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Dietary Modification | Participants will be provided with meals, snacks and drinks with specific macronutrient compositions and encouraged to only eat and drink study meals, snacks and drinks and to avoid eating after 10:00 hours. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-10-29
- Primary completion
- 2019-05-11
- Completion
- 2019-05-11
- First posted
- 2018-10-05
- Last updated
- 2022-02-15
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03698123. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.