The purpose of this research study is to test the feasibility and effectiveness of SIT in teaching medical students to perform in high-fidelity simulation settings similar to those they may experience in their practice.
This is a study examining stress inoculation training and its potential role in medical education. The medical field exposes students and providers to various stressful situations each and every day. Various organizations including military organizations have introduced concepts of stress inoculation training (SIT) to help learners manage these situations to produce optimal performance.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
12
1 hour lecture that will cover the conceptualization phase and skills-training phase portions of stress inoculation training.
an extra attempt at intubating a mannequin configured at a difficulty level higher than will be used in the future scenarios
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Change in anxiety - visual analog
Change in anxiety will be assessed using the Visual Anxiety Scale (VAS/VAS-A), a widely used scale that has been validated in multiple settings to detect changes in anxiety level. A 10cm line will be drawn on the screen and participants will be asked to rate their level of anxiety by clicking somewhere on the line - the leftmost portion coinciding with no anxiety, the rightmost portion coinciding with extreme anxiety. Each millimeter to the right of the initial start of the line counts as 1 point out of 100.
Time frame: Baseline to up to 3 weeks
Change in state-trait anxiety
Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory 6 (STAI-6) will be used to measure state-trait anxiety. The STAI-6 is a validated 6-question form of the STAI-Y, a commonly used and validated measure of anxiety.
Time frame: Baseline to up to 3 weeks
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