Impact of Stress and Sleep Management on Emergency Professionals

NCT05251246 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: 69HCL21_07742021-A02218-33
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 72
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The investigators hypothesize that a recovery management program could have an impact on emergency nurses and physicians by improving their sleep and reducing their psychological and physiological responses when dealing with stressful situations during their professional practice. The REST study consists in developing a recovery management program for emergency professionals. The following strategies would be proposed :

• sleep management according to their schedules by anticipation and recovery,
• stress management through cardio-feedback techniques (cardiac coherence) also called controlled breathing techniques and mental imagery. The objectives are to evaluate the impact of this program on the physiological and psychological stress of the emergency professionals during their professional activity, as well as on their sleep. To do so, their respiratory and heart rates, as well as their activity and resting times will be recorded continuously for one week. At the end of each shift, the emergency professionals will report and evaluate the 3 most stressful events.

Conditions

Healthy

Keywords

sleep deprivation; recovery management program; Stress, Psychological; Stress, Physiological; Emergency Service; Hospital; nurses; physicians

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Comparison of the recovery capacity for self-reported stressful events after the recovery management program

  During the 30 minutes following self-reported stressful events, the physiological responses to stress (heart rate) are compared between the trained and non-trained emergency professionals.

  30 minutes post-stressful events

Secondary Outcomes (12)

• Evaluation of the perceived stress of the emergency professionals across one week of shift work before and after implementation of the recovery management program.

  2 days (Day22 & Day51)

• Evaluation of the perceived stress of the emergency professionals during the shift work before and after implementation of the recovery management program

  6 days (each shift between Day 15 - Day 21 & Day 44-51)

• Evaluation of the psychological markers of stress for self-reported stressful events before and after implementation of the recovery management program.

  6 days (between Day 15- Day 21 & Day 44-51))

• Comparison of the sleep time and latency of sleep times before and after implementation of the recovery management program.

  7 days (Day 15-Day 21)

• Evaluation of the subjective perception of somnolence before and after implementation of the recovery management program.

  6 days (each shift between Day 15- Day 21 & Day 44-51)

Study Arms (2)

Without recovery management program

NO INTERVENTION

Trained in the recovery management program

EXPERIMENTAL

Half of the included volunteered participants are randomized in the intervention group

Behavioral: recovery management program

Interventions

recovery management program BEHAVIORAL

The recovery management program consists in training the nurses and physicians during a 15-day training course to optimize their recovery abilities : sleep management according to the schedules by anticipation and recovery, and stress management through cardio-feedback techniques (cardiac coherence) also called controlled breathing techniques and mental imagery.

Trained in the recovery management program

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Nurses or physicians
• In current position for at least one year
• Full time or minimum three shifts per week
• Location: Emergency Department of the Edouard Herriot Hospital or the South Lyon Hospital
• Free and informed consent

You may not qualify if:

• Caregivers on leave during the enrollment period
• Pregnant, parturient or breastfeeding caregivers
• Participation in another study

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hospices Civils de Lyon: lead
• Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Hôpital Lyon Sud

Pierre-Bénite, France

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Sleep Deprivation; Stress, Psychological

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Dyssomnias; Sleep Wake Disorders; Nervous System Diseases; Neurologic Manifestations; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Mental Disorders; Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior

Study Officials

• Marion DOUPLAT, MD

  Hospices Civils de Lyon

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Stéphanie MAZZA, Prof

  Laboratoire RESHAPE, Université Lyon 1

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 30, 2021
• First Posted: February 22, 2022
• Study Start: February 8, 2022
• Primary Completion: October 31, 2022
• Study Completion: October 31, 2022
• Last Updated: July 25, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

FR (1)