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Simulation-Based Stress Inoculation Training

NCT03233750 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2023-03-14

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Summary

Previous research has shown that health professionals can experience stress responses during high acuity events such as trauma resuscitations. These stress responses can lead to impaired clinical performance. The goal of this proposed project is to adapt Stress Inoculation Training (SIT) to the healthcare setting. Stress Inoculation Training is a cognitive-behavioural approach to stress management that has proven effective in reducing stress and improving performance in domains outside of healthcare.

Thirty-two emergency medicine residents will be randomly divided into two groups. The SIT group will receive the simulation-based stress inoculation training. We will measure the effectiveness of the training by looking at reduction of stress levels and improvements in clinical performance in a pre-intervention and a post-intervention simulated trauma scenario. The control group will be exposed to the same simulation scenarios and pre/post intervention scenarios as the SIT group, but will not receive the stress inoculation training.

Conditions

  • Stress, Psychological

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Stress Inoculation Training

see description in arm/group descriptions

BEHAVIORAL

Crisis Resource Management

During each scenario, facilitators identify performance gaps in either situation awareness, leadership, communication or resource allocations. During debriefing session, these are raised with the learner and their cognitive frames are identified and corrected as necessary.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Toronto

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Vicki LeBlanc, PhD · University of Ottawa

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-09-15
Primary Completion
2019-08-30
Completion
2019-08-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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