PAIN Empathy Assessment in Sleep Deprived Emergency & Acute Care Clinicians

NCT ID: NCT05235035

Last Updated: 2022-11-08

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

30 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-01-12

Study Completion Date

2022-11-04

Brief Summary

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Cognitive Empathy is relevant in clinical practice and will be assessed based on the accuracy of pain recognition and the pain intensity evaluation in a computerised task using facial expressions. Repeated measures across day and night shifts will provide the basis to understand the impact of shift work on those abilities in health care professionals.

Detailed Description

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Assessment and management of the pain patients experience is one of the key skills needed in the field of anesthesiology. The consideration of non-verbal cues is essential, especially the recognition of facial expressions. The human ability to recognize emotions in others depends on the capacity for empathy of an individual, specifically cognitive empathy. In the clinical context empathy is understood as a set of skills and competences rather than a character trait. It may therefore vary due to various parameters. Currently there is no research available on the influence of shift work on the human ability to recognize pain in facial expressions. However, work schedules that do not fit the natural circadian rhythm are known to alter the processing of emotions. In particular the ability to judge the intensity of an emotion is influenced. Therefore, the hypothesis of the present study will be, that shift work impairs the pain assessment performance of an individual. To test this hypothesis, the effect of shift work on the performance in recognizing and assessing pain intensity of faces by health care professionals in the anesthesia department will be assessed. A repeated measures assessment will be used.

Conditions

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Empathy Sleep Pain

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

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health care professionals

Staff from the department of anesthesia and general resuscitation and thoracic cardiac pediatric with patient contact that regularly works in shifts including night shifts

Night shift work

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Subjects are exposed to irregular sleep and sleep misalignment due to hospital night shifts.

Interventions

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Night shift work

Subjects are exposed to irregular sleep and sleep misalignment due to hospital night shifts.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* working day and night shifts
* health care professional with patient contact

Exclusion Criteria

* refuse to participate
* not working night shifts
* no patient contact
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Claude Bernard University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Lilot Marc

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Claude Bernard University

Lyon, , France

Site Status

Countries

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France

References

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Other Identifiers

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PAIN-EASE

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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