NCT05510102

Characterization of Medical Student Burnout Using Remote Physiologic Monitoring

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Thomas Jefferson University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A reliable method for monitoring stress and burnout among medical students is critically needed. To address this gap, our team aims to utilize the cost-effective WHOOP strap 4.0 wearable device to continuously capture stress-relevant physiologic data (i.e., sleep hours, heart rate variability, respiration rate, resting heart rate) among up to 50 third-year medical students at 24 Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University for 6 months.

Detailed description

Aim 1: To determine whether physiologic metrics of sleep and heart rate variability correlate with subjective assessments of medical student wellness in a 6-month period. Hypothesis: Less total sleep hours will correlate with higher scores for Perceived Stress Scale-4, Medical Student Well-Being Index, and Patient Health Questionnaire-9, but lower heart rate variability will correlate with higher scores on Perceived Stress Scale-4, Medical Student Well Being Index, and Patient Health Questionnaire-9. Aim 2: To determine whether physiologic metrics of sleep and heart rate variability correlate with performance on shelf examinations for clinical rotations in a 6-month period. Hypothesis: Less total sleep hours and lower heart rate variability will correlate with poorer performance on shelf examinations.

Conditions

• Wellness
• Burnout
• Remote Monitoring

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	WHOOP strap 4.0 (full data access)	The WHOOP strap 4.0 provides continuous physiologic data via remote monitoring. Subjects will have full remote monitoring data access throughout the entirety of the study (6 months).
DEVICE	WHOOP strap 4.0 (partial data access)	The WHOOP strap 4.0 provides continuous physiologic data via remote monitoring. Subjects will be blinded to remote monitoring data for the first 3 months of the study followed by an unblinding and full access to remote monitoring data at the 3 month mark (continued for the remainder of the study).

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-08-22
• Primary completion: 2023-02-22
• Completion: 2023-04-01
• First posted: 2022-08-22
• Last updated: 2022-08-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study