Early Exposure of Medical Students to Night Shifts: Impact on Well-being and Anxiety

Medical Students Well-being and Anxiety Clinical Trial

Official title:

Early Exposure of Medical Students to Night Shifts: Impact on Well-being and Anxiety

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04822454
• Other study ID #: StJosephBeirut
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 1, 2019
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: March 2021
• Source: St Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This is an interventional study assessing the impact of 'shadowing night shifts' early during medical school, on the wellbeing and level of anxiety of a students during their first official night shifts.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 70
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: June 1, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Students of the class of 2021 at the Faculty of Medicine of Saint Joseph University in their fifth year (Med 2).

Exclusion Criteria:

• student who has already been on call during internships in Lebanon or abroad, as well as students in other medical years.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety Disorders
• Medical Students Well-being and Anxiety

Intervention

Other:
• Night shift shadowing program
Our population, made up of 70 students, was divided into two randomly randomized groups: 31 (44.3%) had five night shift shadowing duty prior to their first official night shifts, and 39 (55.7%) did not participate in the shadowing program.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Lebanon	Saint Joseph University	Beyrouth	N/A (n/a)

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
St Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Lebanon, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Questionnaire	After the shadowing program is completed, both groups of medical students (those who participated in the shadowing program and those who did not), have to fill a questionnaire that assesses their wellbeing and level of anxiety regarding their first official night shifts. Our primary outcome is to evaluate the impact of the shadowing program on medical students well-being and their level of anxiety.	6 months