Continuous Heart Rate Variability Monitoring in Doctors; Understanding Patterns of Stress and Recovery and Their Relationship With Self-reported Resilience, Burnout and Wellbeing.

NCT ID: NCT06721312

Last Updated: 2024-12-11

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-12-09

Study Completion Date

2025-10-31

Brief Summary

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Burnout is an increasing concern in the medical professions. This study aims to utilise established, validated self-report measures combined with continuous heart rate variability measurements to better understand the stress and recovery patterns experienced by doctors that may contribute to burnout.

This mixed methods study design will consist of an ecological momentary assessment phase where participants will complete commonly used and validated real-time subjective measures while concurrently wearing a heart rate variability monitor to provide an objective measure of stress. Following on from this, participants of interest will be invited to participate in semi structured interviews to further explore their experiences of stress and recovery.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Burnout Burnout Syndrome Occupational Stress Stress

Keywords

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Heart rate variability HRV occupational stress resilience fatigue wellbeing stress burnout

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Working within NHS Grampian
* Access to a smartphone

Exclusion Criteria

* Cardiac arrhythmias/endocrine disease.
* Prescription beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, ACE inhibitors, benzodiazepines, antidepressants and antianxiety medications.
* Insufficient non-working time prior to study commencement.
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Aberdeen

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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NHS Grampian

Aberdeen, , United Kingdom

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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United Kingdom

Central Contacts

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Leia M Kane, BSc (hons), MBChB, FRCEM

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 07903669881

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Leia M Kane, BSc (hons), MBChB, FRECEM

Role: primary

References

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Kane L, Ball D, Martin KR, Powell D. Continuous heart rate variability monitoring-understanding patterns of stress and recovery and their relationship with self-reported burnout, resilience and well-being in doctors: a protocol for a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study. BMJ Open. 2025 Jun 8;15(6):e097849. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097849.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 40484420 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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2-015-24

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id