Monitoring Sleep, Wellbeing, and Glucose Metabolism in PGY1s

Sleep Clinical Trial

Official title: Monitoring Sleep, Wellbeing, and Glucose Metabolism in Postgraduate Year 1 Doctors on Traditional and Float Call Shifts

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Overnight on-call schedules can impact sleep, wellbeing, and alertness, which can be detrimental on the performance, physical and mental health of residents. Moreover, rotating shift work may have a long-term negative health impact (e.g. increased risk of diabetes). Within the National University Hospital (NUH), two different systems of rotating on-call schedules are implemented. In the night float system, residents work from 8 pm to 8 am for 5 - 7 consecutive nights once every month, compared to the traditional overnight on-call system, where each resident is on call for 4-6 nights per month (7 am - 5 pm, followed by overnight call until 8 am the next morning). The aim of the current study is to track sleep, wellbeing, and glucose metabolism during the different phases of the night float and traditional on-call schedules.

Clinical Trial Description

Overnight on-call schedules can impact sleep, wellbeing, and alertness, which can be detrimental on the performance, physical and mental health of residents. Moreover, rotating shift work may have a long-term negative health impact (e.g. increased risk of diabetes). Within the National University Hospital (NUH), two different systems of rotating on-call schedules are implemented. In the night float system, residents work from 8 pm to 8 am for 5 - 7 consecutive nights once every month, compared to the traditional overnight on-call system, where each resident is on call for 4-6 nights per month (7 am - 5 pm, followed by overnight call until 8 am the next morning). The aim of the current study is to track sleep, wellbeing, and glucose metabolism during the different phases of the night float and traditional on-call schedules. The availability of accurate mobile methodologies to monitor sleep and metabolic health provide new avenues for the improvement of sleep health and well-being. Wearable sleep tracking devices and smartphone apps provide remarkable opportunities for non-invasive, longitudinal sleep detection. Measurement of sleep during different stages of the shift schedule (baseline, on-call, recovery) can provide detailed insights into the temporal impact of the different schedules. Moreover, self-reported ratings of sleep quality, wellbeing, and time-use (delivered through phone-based e-diary methods) can further detail the mental health impact associated with these schedules. Wearable continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMS) provide a minimally invasive means of passively tracking ambulant interstitial fluid glucose levels in real time. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Glucose Metabolism Disorders
• Metabolic Diseases
• Sleep

• NCT number: NCT05695235
• Study type: Observational
• Source: National University, Singapore
• Contact: Stijn Agus Adrianus Massar, PhD
• Phone: +65 66015238
• Email: mdcsaam@nus.edu.sg
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: January 1, 2022
• Completion date: June 2023