Personality Change During Medical Residency

University of Coimbra600 enrolled

Overview

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).

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

600

Conditions

Personality Coping Skills

Interventions

No intervention.OTHER

There are no interventions in this observational study.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 23 YearsMax age: 45 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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)

Locations (1)

Department of Psychiatry at Hospitalar and Universitary Center of Coimbra, EPE

Coimbra, Portugal

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

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).

Time frame: 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].

Secondary Outcomes

Perfectionism

Baseline (and changes)in Perfectionism measured using the portuguese version (Soares et al) of Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Frost)

Problem Solving Inventory (Vaz Serra et al)

Central Contacts

Fernanda O Miguel, MD

CONTACT

(+351)961031769 miguel_fernanda@yahoo.com

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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