Coping Skills, Personality
Conditions
Keywords
Personality change, Perfectionism, Coping, Medical Specialty, Medical Residency
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).
Interventions
OTHERNo intervention.
There are no interventions in this observational study.
Sponsors
University of Coimbra
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
23 Years to 45 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* 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.
Exclusion criteria
* 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)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Personality | 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]. | 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). |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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]. | Baseline (and changes)in Perfectionism measured using the portuguese version (Soares et al) of Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Frost) |
| 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]. | — |
Countries
Portugal
Contacts
Primary ContactFernanda O Miguel, MD
Outcome results
None listed