NCT06200792

Stress and Anxiety Affect Residents' Performance

The Impact of Stress in Residents' Performance

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Padova · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Being an anesthesiologist implies huge dedication and both physical and psychological efforts. None has ever studied the impact of a working day on anxiety, perceived stress levels, physiological data, and executive functions.

Detailed description

During a working day, trainees will have their physiological and psychological data recorded before starting their clinical activity and after them. Electrodermal activity with the eSense device, Executive functions through the TOL-R and all the questionnaires and scales will be sampled at the beginning of the day and at the end of the day the same procedure will be applied again (exclusion for PSS-10 scale, STAY-Y trait anxiety and GAD-7) eSense and TOL-R, are useful tools to understand sympathetic activity and executive functions. The galvanometer it is the gold standard to measure EDA; i.e. electrodermal activity, which is a pure sympathetic index, while Tower of London it is the gold standard to assess planning, monitoring and programming skills, both data are supposed to be heavily involved in an anesthesiologist trainee during the all day. The aims of the study are to evaluate executive functions at the start and at the end of a working day and to understand theirs relationship with anxiety, perceived stress levels and physiological changes in sympathetic activity.

Conditions

• Stress
• Stress Disorder
• Work Related Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	eSense device	eSense device for monitoring electrodermal activity. Visual analogic scale (VAS) for pain and discomfort; TOL-R tests for investigating working performances.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-01-01
• Primary completion: 2024-03-01
• Completion: 2024-12-01
• First posted: 2024-01-11
• Last updated: 2024-12-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy