Attentional Capacity and Clinician Performance

NCT02928796 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: ACCP - 1
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 14
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Uncovering the distinct measurements and features that potentially exist in different levels of expertise when performing cardiology-based procedures. There is a belief that tracking the visual attention and other psychophysiological measures during performance of these procedures may assist in uncovering the attentional capacity of participants and how it links with overall performance.

Conditions

Change in Sustained Attention

Keywords

Attentional capacity; Working memory; Simulation-based training; Eye-tracking; Visual attention; Psychophysiological measurement; Surgical simulation; Computer-based simulation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Mean attentional capacity

  The hypothesis is that a significant statistical relationship will be found between measured attentional capacity (via a card reading task) and overall surgical task performance grading. Attentional capacity, we hypothesise, will be a statistically significant predictor for discriminating between performance level.

  Up to 12 Months.

• Visual attention characteristics for stimulus reading 'card' task

  The hypothesis is that a significant statistical relationship will be found with characteristics of participant's visual attention (e.g. mean fixation duration, mean saccade latency, overall visual latency before card acknowledgement) and the measured attentional capacity.

  Up to 12 months.

Study Arms (2)

Trainees

Registrar Cardiologists

Behavioral: Cognitive Stimulus

Trainers

Consultant Cardiologists

Behavioral: Cognitive Stimulus

Interventions

Cognitive Stimulus BEHAVIORAL

Participants to pay attention to a supplementary display monitor and respond to specified stimulus images, all while performing the simulated cardiology-based procedure.

Trainees; Trainers

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Qualified medical professionals, trainees/registrars or trainers/consultants, working within the cathlab environment and discipline of interventional cardiology.

You may qualify if:

• They must be qualified medical doctor with specific interest in cardiology (e.g. consultant cardiologist). Consultant group must contain consultants only and registrar group must have enrolled registrars only.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University College Cork: lead
• University of Ulster: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

ASSERT Centre, University College Cork

Cork, Cork, Ireland

RECRUITING

Related Publications (1)

• Currie J, Bond RR, McCullagh P, Black P, Finlay DD, Gallagher S, Kearney P, Peace A, Stoyanov D, Bicknell CD, Leslie S, Gallagher AG. Wearable technology-based metrics for predicting operator performance during cardiac catheterisation. Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg. 2019 Apr;14(4):645-657. doi: 10.1007/s11548-019-01918-0. Epub 2019 Feb 7.

  PMID: 30730031 DERIVED

Study Officials

• Anthony G. Gallagher, DSc, PhD

  University College Cork

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Jonathan Currie, BSc

CONTACT

+447525778242; currie-j@email.ulster.ac.uk

Anthony G. Gallagher, DSc, PhD

CONTACT

ag.gallagher@ucc.ie

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Director of Research, Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 30, 2016
• First Posted: October 10, 2016
• Study Start: September 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2017
• Last Updated: October 10, 2016

Record last verified: 2016-10

Locations

IE (1)