NCT04456764

The Sleep and Teamwork in EMS Study

Real-time Intervention to Reduce Fatigue Among Emergency Medical Services Workers: A Cluster-randomized Trial

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 708 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

More than half of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers report work-related mental and physical fatigue. Odds of injury among fatigued EMS workers are nearly double that of non-fatigued workers. There is a compelling need to reduce fatigue among EMS workers, yet few EMS organizations have a formal fatigue management program and many may not be cost-effective or evidence-based. This trial addresses national goals of the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) and tests a novel approach to fatigue risk management that is easily scalable to large workforces and low-cost for employers of shift workers.

Detailed description

The investigators will test an enhanced version of our SleepTrackTXT pilot intervention - Sleep and Fatigue Treatment in EMS (SaFTiE) - in a two-arm parallel cluster-randomized design of EMS agencies. Our unit of randomization will be the EMS agency, with the intervention deployed as a Fatigue Risk Management Program that can be integrated into an agency's existing program. During the active intervention phase, the investigators will use SaFTiE and an attention placebo control (APC) group to test the specific effect of our multi-component intervention on EMS worker fatigue and sleep health.

Conditions

• Fatigue
• Sleep

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SaFTiE	A multi-modal fatigue risk management program.
BEHAVIORAL	Attention Placebo Control	A multi-modal teamwork assessment program.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-16
• Primary completion: 2023-12-11
• Completion: 2024-03-31
• First posted: 2020-07-02
• Last updated: 2025-05-18
• Results posted: 2024-11-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States