Personality Change During Medical Residency

NCT01574924 | Unknown DMC

• 1 other identifier: PERINT-01
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 600
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The Ethics Committee of Hospital and University Center of Coimbra (Portugal) complies, reports and is supervisioned by the Portuguese Ethics Committee. The Ethics Committee of Hospital and University Center of Coimbra is an multidisciplinary organ of Ethics experts that give support to the board of hospital directors, the health personnel and patients, regarding bioethical issues emerging from clinical assistance activities (addressed to patient's health being, education and clinical research).

Conditions

Personality; Coping Skills

Keywords

Personality change; Perfectionism; Coping; Medical Specialty; Medical Residency

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Personality

  Change in the facets of personality domains (Neuroticism, Extroversion and Conscientiousness) measure with the portuguese version (Lima et al) of NEO PI-R (Costa \& McCrae).

  First assessment: 1st month of medical specialty. Second (final) assessment: 1st month after medical specialty final exam [4, 5, 6 (or more) years after the 1st evaluation, according to the time taken to complete medical residency].

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Perfectionism

  First assessment: 1st month of medical specialty. Second (final) assessment: 1st month after medical specialty final exam [4, 5, 6 (or more) years after the 1st evaluation, according to the time taken to complete medical residency].

• Problem Solving Inventory (Vaz Serra et al)

  First assessment: 1st month of medical specialty. Second (final) assessment: 1st month after medical specialty final exam [4, 5, 6 (or more) years after the 1st evaluation, according to the time taken to complete medical residency].

Study Arms (1)

Medical residents

Other: No intervention.

Interventions

No intervention. OTHER

There are no interventions in this observational study.

Medical residents

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 23 Years - 45 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

All portuguese medical (first year) residents will be invited to participate in the study (target population). Targeted enrollment stategies will be used to recruit participants (individual invitation emails). Also, the study will be disclosed in some social networks. The research team has created a proper email account (personalidade.internato@gmail.com) to answer any questions and to change email with the participants of the study. To those who accepted and consent to participate (study population), it will be send the online link to create a confidential account and access (and to give answers to the questionnaires).

You may qualify if:

• Medical residents with ages between 23 and 45 years old, attending the first year of medical specialty in Portugal in the following specialties\*: General Surgery, Neurosurgery; Orthopedics; Intern Medicine, Gastroenterology; Cardiology; Rheumatology; Endocrinology; Oncology; Intensive Medicine; Pediatric; Radiology; Clinical Pathology; Neurology and Psychiatry.
• Acceptance and commitment to participate in the study.
• Signature of study' informed consent.

You may not qualify if:

• Attendance, during the study, in an international formative stage with a duration superior to 12 months.
• Previous attendance of other medical specialty for more than one year.
• Present or past history of major psychiatry disorders (illicit drug abuse with dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Coimbra: lead

Study Sites (1)

Department of Psychiatry at Hospitalar and Universitary Center of Coimbra, EPE

Coimbra, 3000-075, Portugal

Location

Study Officials

• Fernanda Miguel, MD

  Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Fernanda Miguel, MD

  Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE

  STUDY CHAIR

• Eva Mendes, MD

  Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE

  STUDY CHAIR

• Susana Renca, MD

  Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE

  STUDY CHAIR

• Joana Andrade, MD

  Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE

  STUDY CHAIR

• Sandra Pereira, MD

  Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE

  STUDY CHAIR

• Catarina Pereira, MD

  Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE

  STUDY CHAIR

• Helena Rita, MD

  Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE

  STUDY CHAIR

• Joaquim Cerejeira, MD. Ph D

  Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE

  STUDY CHAIR

• Ana Cabral, MD

  Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE

  STUDY CHAIR

• Salomé Caldeira, Clinical Psychologist

  Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE

  STUDY CHAIR

• Maria Soares, Ph D

  Institute of Medical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra

  STUDY CHAIR

• Telma Pereira, PhD

  Institute of Medical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra

  STUDY CHAIR

• António Macedo, MD. PhD

  Institute of Medical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra; Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Central Study Contacts

Fernanda O Miguel, MD

CONTACT

(+351)961031769; miguel_fernanda@yahoo.com

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: MD

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 5, 2012
• First Posted: April 10, 2012
• Study Start: April 1, 2012
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2018
• Last Updated: April 16, 2012

Record last verified: 2012-04

Locations

PT (1)