Being an anesthesiologist implies huge dedication and both physical and psychological efforts. None has ever studied the impact of a working day on anxiety, perceived stress levels, physiological data, and executive functions.
During a working day, trainees will have their physiological and psychological data recorded before starting their clinical activity and after them. Electrodermal activity with the eSense device, Executive functions through the TOL-R and all the questionnaires and scales will be sampled at the beginning of the day and at the end of the day the same procedure will be applied again (exclusion for PSS-10 scale, STAY-Y trait anxiety and GAD-7) eSense and TOL-R, are useful tools to understand sympathetic activity and executive functions. The galvanometer it is the gold standard to measure EDA; i.e. electrodermal activity, which is a pure sympathetic index, while Tower of London it is the gold standard to assess planning, monitoring and programming skills, both data are supposed to be heavily involved in an anesthesiologist trainee during the all day. The aims of the study are to evaluate executive functions at the start and at the end of a working day and to understand theirs relationship with anxiety, perceived stress levels and physiological changes in sympathetic activity.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
40
eSense device for monitoring electrodermal activity. Visual analogic scale (VAS) for pain and discomfort; TOL-R tests for investigating working performances.
Clinica Odontoiatrica
Padova, Italy
Differences in executive functions overtime
Evaluating executive functions at the start and at the end of a working day using the Tower of London test (TOL-R) (scoring 0 (worst score)-30 (better score))
Time frame: baseline and immediately after intervention
Differences in dermal activity during working day
Evaluating potential differences in electrodermal activity overtime using microsiemens, counting number of stress response
Time frame: baseline and immediately after intervention
Assess the general level of anxiety
Measuring levels of anxiety using the generalized anxiety disorder-7 item (GAD-7) (minimum 0, maximum score 21)
Time frame: baseline and immediately after intervention
General level of anxiety
Measuring the general levels of anxiety with the Stait-trait anxiety inventory (STAI-Y1-2) (1 point=not at all/almost never anxiety; 2=somewhat/sometimes; 3=moderately so/often) and 4= very much so/almost always)
Time frame: baseline and immediately after intervention
Evaluating the general levels of perceived stress levels
Evaluation of the general levels of perceived stress levels using the perceived stress score (PSS)-10 scale (0 (minimum level of anxiety)-10 (maximum level of anxiety))
Time frame: baseline and immediately after intervention
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