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Survey Evaluating the Prevalence and the Severity of Feelings of Self-doubt in European Anesthesiologists

NCT05732792 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 700

Last updated 2023-07-21

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Summary

Impostor syndrome is a form of erroneous self-assessment that is defined as the inability to believe that one's success is earnt and that positive outcomes are the result of one's skills.

The syndrome has been described and studied in an array of different populations including the healthcare setting and academic faculty members working in a competitive environment. A scoping review of the imposter syndrome in physicians and physicians in training concluded that low self-esteem, gender, and institutional culture are linked to high rates of imposter syndrome. The fact that this syndrome has been linked to higher rates of burnout is more worrisome. Moreover, this specific syndrome might prevent physicians from acting in certain situations.

Even though Impostor syndrome has been described in doctors across a wide range of specialties, it has yet to be specifically investigated within anesthesiology. We hypothesize that imposter syndrome prevalence will be high in this population due to core attributes of the profession itself.

With this study, the prevalence and severity of imposter syndrome in the European anesthesia profession will be investigated by using the Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale (CIPS) scale, which will be completed by anesthesiologists and anesthesiology residents members of the European Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care.

In parallel, key demographics that are linked to increased severity of the imposter syndrome will also be investigated.

Conditions

  • Imposter Syndrome
  • Anesthesia

Interventions

OTHER

CIPS Survey

The survey is endorsed by the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) and will be distributed from February 2023 onwards to its members for a period of 3 months. Each anesthesiologist's participation to the survey will be voluntary and anonymous individual consent will be implied by the person's willingness to complete the survey. The survey will also mention this. All surveys will be administered via SurveyMonkey. Surveymonkey allows to build "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" (HIPAA) compliant surveys that follow strict rules around the protection of health information. Of note, Surveymonkey is also GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliant. Data gathered from the questionnaires will be safely stored on the surveymonkey database. The access to the result database is held by a password that only the authors can use to analyze the data yielded at the end of the survey period.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Université Libre de Bruxelles

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-02-11
Primary Completion
2023-05-11
Completion
2023-05-14

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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