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Effect of Naps on Decision Making of Residents.

NCT03225391 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 27

Last updated 2020-02-19

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Summary

Sleep deprivation produces changes including alteration of mood, irritability, fatigue, less focus and disorientation, also perceptive distortions, visual hallucinations and considering tasks harder and less pleasant. In resident physicians, these alterations have been shown to affect their work performance. Naps have proved to improve arousal and attention, alertness and performance. Those longer than 90 minutes promote a learning process similar to that occurring in REM sleep. Therefore a nap schedule could improve the decision making of residents during their working hours.

Conditions

  • Internship and Residency
  • Sleep
  • Decision Making

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

nap from 0:00 to 3:00 hours

A nap from 0:00 to 3:00 hours during a night shift.

BEHAVIORAL

nap from 3:00 to 6:00 hours

A nap from 3:00 to 6:00 hours during a night shift.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Armando R Castorena-Maldonado, MD · Insituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
23 Years
Max Age
32 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-06-10
Primary Completion
2019-12-10
Completion
2019-12-10

Countries

  • Mexico

Study Locations

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