Personality Change During Medical Residency

Coping Skills Clinical Trial

Official title:

Personality Change During Medical Residency Across Different Medical Specialties

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01574924
• Other study ID #: PERINT-01
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: April 5, 2012
• Last updated: April 12, 2012
• Start date: April 2012

Study information

• Verified date: April 2012
• Source: University of Coimbra
• Contact: Fernanda O Miguel, MD
• Phone: (+351)961031769
• Email: miguel_fernanda[@]yahoo.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Portugal: Health Ethics Committee
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The Ethics Committee of Hospital and University Center of Coimbra (Portugal) complies, reports and is supervisioned by the Portuguese Ethics Committee.

The Ethics Committee of Hospital and University Center of Coimbra is an multidisciplinary organ of Ethics experts that give support to the board of hospital directors, the health personnel and patients, regarding bioethical issues emerging from clinical assistance activities (addressed to patient's health being, education and clinical research).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 600
• Est. primary completion date: October 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 23 Years to 45 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Medical residents with ages between 23 and 45 years old, attending the first year of medical specialty in Portugal in the following specialties*: General Surgery, Neurosurgery; Orthopedics; Intern Medicine, Gastroenterology; Cardiology; Rheumatology; Endocrinology; Oncology; Intensive Medicine; Pediatric; Radiology; Clinical Pathology; Neurology and Psychiatry.

• Acceptance and commitment to participate in the study.

• Signature of study' informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Attendance, during the study, in an international formative stage with a duration superior to 12 months.

• Previous attendance of other medical specialty for more than one year.

• Present or past history of major psychiatry disorders (illicit drug abuse with dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder)

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Coping Skills
• Personality
• Personality Disorders

Intervention

Other:
• No intervention.
There are no interventions in this observational study.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Portugal	Department of Psychiatry at Hospitalar and Universitary Center of Coimbra, EPE	Coimbra

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Coimbra

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Portugal, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Personality	Change in the facets of personality domains (Neuroticism, Extroversion and Conscientiousness) measure with the portuguese version (Lima et al) of NEO PI-R (Costa & McCrae).	First assessment: 1st month of medical specialty. Second (final) assessment: 1st month after medical specialty final exam [4, 5, 6 (or more) years after the 1st evaluation, according to the time taken to complete medical residency].	No
Secondary	Perfectionism	Baseline (and changes)in Perfectionism measured using the portuguese version (Soares et al) of Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Frost)	First assessment: 1st month of medical specialty. Second (final) assessment: 1st month after medical specialty final exam [4, 5, 6 (or more) years after the 1st evaluation, according to the time taken to complete medical residency].	No
Secondary	Problem Solving Inventory (Vaz Serra et al)		First assessment: 1st month of medical specialty. Second (final) assessment: 1st month after medical specialty final exam [4, 5, 6 (or more) years after the 1st evaluation, according to the time taken to complete medical residency].	No