Emotion Tracking Study for Residents

Stress, Emotional Clinical Trial

— ETSR  

Official title:

EmoTrak, Ecological Momentary Assessment of Emotion, Stress and Satisfaction Among Residents

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02947477
• Other study ID #: RAPFUNDEKMAN
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 2016
• Est. completion date: December 17, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: January 2020
• Source: University of California, San Francisco
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The proposed study will develop and pilot a fourteen-day assessment tailored for the high-demand schedule of residents through a smart phone intervention, EmoTrak.EmoTrak uses ecological measurement assessment (EMA), which solicits real-time user feedback at various time points across a series of days or weeks.

Description:

The investigators will perform a randomized controlled trial that compares residents, using EmoTrak with a wait list control group. After two weeks, the active control group becomes the treatment group. All participants will be evaluated four times from at baseline to two months. The measures to explore for any pre and post change are stress reduction on the emotional exhaustion scale of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and improved resilience on the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: December 17, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: December 17, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 21 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Currently in Residency or Fellowship at UCSF

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not having an Iphone

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Stress, Emotional
• Stress, Psychological

Intervention

Behavioral:
• EmoTrak
Ecological Momentary Assessment of Emotion through Iphone App

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of California	San Francisco	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of California, San Francisco

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (1)

Riess H, Kelley JM, Bailey RW, Dunn EJ, Phillips M. Empathy training for resident physicians: a randomized controlled trial of a neuroscience-informed curriculum. J Gen Intern Med. 2012 Oct;27(10):1280-6. Epub 2012 May 2. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Exploratory Analysis of Reduction in Pre and Post Reported Emotional Exhaustion on the MBI	Exploratory analysis of pre and post reduction of participants using EmoTrak versus wait list control on Emotional Exhaustion subscale of Burnout.	30 days
Other	Exploratory Analysis of Reduction in Pre and Post Reported Stress on PSS and MBI	Exploratory analysis of pre and post improvements of participants using EmoTrak versus wait list control on Perceived Stress.	30 days
Other	Exploratory Analysis of Increase in Pre and Post Reported Resilience on the CDRisc	Exploratory analysis of pre and post improvements of participants using EmoTrak versus wait list control on a measure of resilience to dealing with stress.	30 days
Primary	Retention of Participants Iphone App for Residents	Quantify amount of drop out through out the 14 day study and how many reports are responded two daily	14 days
Primary	Acceptability of Iphone App for Residents Online Evaluation and Mini Interviews	Evaluate online questions and qualitative mini interviews about the usability of the app	30 days
Secondary	Real Time Assessment Comparison to Standardized Measures	Compare Pre, Post and Midway Assessments of Stress, Burnout and Emotion Awareness with daily, longitudinal measures to explore relationships between these sources of data.	35 days
Secondary	Ecological Assessment of Emotions Compared to Standardized Emotion Awareness Measures, PANAS	Comparing the daily reports of emotions in comparison to the PANAS scale of last week of experienced emotions	14 days
Secondary	Ecological Assessment of Stress Compared to Standardized Perceived Stress and Emotional Exhaustion from the Maslach Burnout Inventory	Comparing the daily reports of stress s in comparison to the week of stress as measured by PSS and MBI.	14 days