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

• Sponsor: St Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT04822454
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 70
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Actual Duration (Months): 5
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 14.1

Study Details

Study Description

Brief 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.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Medical Students Well-being and Anxiety	Other: Night shift shadowing program	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 70 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Other
• Official Title: Early Exposure of Medical Students to Night Shifts: Impact on Well-being and Anxiety
• Actual Study Start Date: Jan 1, 2019
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Jun 1, 2019
• Actual Study Completion Date: Jun 1, 2019

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Night shift shadowing program Medical students who participated in a night shift shadowing program prior to their first official night shifts	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.
No Intervention: No night shift shadowing program Medical students who did not participate in the night shift shadowing program prior to their first official night shifts

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Questionnaire [6 months]

   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.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: N/A and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

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.

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Saint Joseph University	Beyrouth	N/A (n/a)	Lebanon	1003

Sponsors and Collaborators

• St Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Anthony Kerbage, Principal Investigator, PGY-1 Resident of Internal Medicine, St Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04822454
• Other Study ID Numbers: StJosephBeirut
• First Posted: Mar 30, 2021
• Last Update Posted: Mar 30, 2021
• Last Verified: Mar 1, 2021

• Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: Undecided
• Plan to Share IPD: Undecided
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Anxiety Disorders

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Mar 30, 2021