Stress
Conditions
Keywords
Stress Inoculation, Medical Education, Simulation Training
Brief summary
The purpose of this research study is to test the feasibility and effectiveness of SIT in teaching medical students to perform in high-fidelity simulation settings similar to those they may experience in their practice.
Detailed description
This is a study examining stress inoculation training and its potential role in medical education. The medical field exposes students and providers to various stressful situations each and every day. Various organizations including military organizations have introduced concepts of stress inoculation training (SIT) to help learners manage these situations to produce optimal performance.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALStress Innoculation Training (SIT)
1 hour lecture that will cover the conceptualization phase and skills-training phase portions of stress inoculation training.
BEHAVIORALExtra attempt
an extra attempt at intubating a mannequin configured at a difficulty level higher than will be used in the future scenarios
Sponsors
Virginia Commonwealth University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* 1st and 2nd year medical students who are at least 18 years old
Exclusion criteria
* Prior airway management experience (including but not limited to former medics, respiratory technicians, CRNAs) * Pregnant women
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in state-trait anxiety | Baseline to up to 3 weeks | Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory 6 (STAI-6) will be used to measure state-trait anxiety. The STAI-6 is a validated 6-question form of the STAI-Y, a commonly used and validated measure of anxiety. |
| Change in anxiety - visual analog | Baseline to up to 3 weeks | Change in anxiety will be assessed using the Visual Anxiety Scale (VAS/VAS-A), a widely used scale that has been validated in multiple settings to detect changes in anxiety level. A 10cm line will be drawn on the screen and participants will be asked to rate their level of anxiety by clicking somewhere on the line - the leftmost portion coinciding with no anxiety, the rightmost portion coinciding with extreme anxiety. Each millimeter to the right of the initial start of the line counts as 1 point out of 100. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed