Healthcare Worker Resilience as Measured by Physiologic Feedback

NCT ID: NCT05033379

Last Updated: 2024-03-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 400 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-08-29
• Study Completion Date: 2024-06-30

Brief Summary

Reliably achieving peak performance requires balancing the strain of the prior day with sufficient recovery to be ready for the next day. Surgery has a long standing tradition long hours of hard work often at the expense of adequate sleep. Decreased sleep and recovery has physiologic consequences which can be measured using biometric data. The goal of this study is to quantify surgeon performance and biometric data to understand how modifiable behaviors including mindfulness training and diet can maximize recovery and performance. The goal of this study is to quantify the impact if modifiable daily behaviors including sleep, nutrition, in order to understand the factors that contribute to high level performance, burnout, and physician wellbeing in surgical trainees and attendings.

Detailed Description

Informed consent will be obtained prior to participation in the research study. A member of the research team will provide the participant with the consent form and allow them adequate time to read and ask questions prior to giving consent. If consent is not obtained, the participant will not be allowed to participate in the research study.

Participants will be asked to wear a biometric sensor for six months. The biometric sensor (The WHOOP strap) collects heart rate, heart rate variability, activity, and sleep metrics. Half of the participants will complete coaching to improve resilience with Arena Strive and half will be a control group instructed that sleep is important. In the latter 3 months of the study, the control group will have the opportunity to wear a continuous glucose monitor. At the completion of the study period all participants will have access to Arena strive coaching.

Other data gathered will be in the form of surveys and comments from subjects on wellness, burnout, modifiable activities including sleep, nutrition, glucose levels using continuous glucose monitoring, exercise and mindfulness.

Conditions

Burnout, Professional

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Control Arm

Instruction about importance of sleep.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Control

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Importance of sleep

Coaching

Undergo resilience coaching

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Resilience coaching

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Arena Strive

Interventions

Control

Importance of sleep

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Resilience coaching

Arena Strive

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Study participants will include full time clinically active healthcare workers

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of California, San Francisco

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Stanford University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Cindy Kin

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Stanford Health Care

Stanford, California, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

61917

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id