Early Exposure of Medical Students to Night Shifts: Impact on Well-being and Anxiety

NCT04822454 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: StJosephBeirut
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 70
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This is an interventional study assessing the impact of 'shadowing night shifts' early during medical school, on the wellbeing and level of anxiety of a students during their first official night shifts.

Conditions

Medical Students Well-being and Anxiety

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Questionnaire

  After the shadowing program is completed, both groups of medical students (those who participated in the shadowing program and those who did not), have to fill a questionnaire that assesses their wellbeing and level of anxiety regarding their first official night shifts. Our primary outcome is to evaluate the impact of the shadowing program on medical students well-being and their level of anxiety.

  6 months

Study Arms (2)

Night shift shadowing program

EXPERIMENTAL

Medical students who participated in a night shift shadowing program prior to their first official night shifts

Other: Night shift shadowing program

No night shift shadowing program

NO INTERVENTION

Medical students who did not participate in the night shift shadowing program prior to their first official night shifts

Interventions

Night shift shadowing program OTHER

Our population, made up of 70 students, was divided into two randomly randomized groups: 31 (44.3%) had five night shift shadowing duty prior to their first official night shifts, and 39 (55.7%) did not participate in the shadowing program.

Night shift shadowing program

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Students of the class of 2021 at the Faculty of Medicine of Saint Joseph University in their fifth year (Med 2).

You may not qualify if:

• student who has already been on call during internships in Lebanon or abroad, as well as students in other medical years.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• St Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon: lead

Study Sites (1)

Saint Joseph University

Beirut, N/A (n/a), 1003, Lebanon

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator, PGY-1 Resident of Internal Medicine

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 25, 2021
• First Posted: March 30, 2021
• Study Start: January 1, 2019
• Primary Completion: June 1, 2019
• Study Completion: June 1, 2019
• Last Updated: March 30, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-03

Locations

LE (1)