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NCT01061255

Stress and Clinical Reasoning in Medical Students

Completed NA Last updated 17 September 2021
What this trial tests

NA trial testing Evaluation of the stress in Stress in 62 participants. Completed in 12 April 2010.

Timeline
9 November 2009
Primary endpoint
12 April 2010
12 April 2010

Quick facts

Lead sponsorNantes University Hospital
PhaseNA
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationnon randomized
Designcrossover
Maskingnone
Primary purposeother
Enrollment62
Start date9 November 2009
Primary completion12 April 2010
Estimated completion12 April 2010
Sites1 location across France

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Nantes University Hospital

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Stress. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Solving a problem in ambulatory setting may contain peripheral stress due to socio-evaluative stressors (patient's expectations about explanations) and task contingent stress due to time pressure, the necessity to take into account patient's mood, to deal with uncertainty of their own data collection and with complex clinical situations. In France, excepted for family medicine, undergraduate medical students and residents are currently not trained to perform consultations and are never exposed to ambulatory patients during training. The investigators postulate that this lack of practice may generate a significant state of stress during the first consultations and consequently modify or even impair clinical reasoning. The primary objective of this study is to compare subjective and physiological levels of acute stress in ambulatory versus hospitalization setting in medical students confronted to a real patient with a diagnostic problem. Measures: The French version of the Anxiety Spielberger test is administered just before and after each problem solving session. Cortisol salivary samples are taken before and after each problem solving session. Salivary cortisol levels have been shown to be correlated to stressful situations and some personality traits but with some difference according to gender. Cognitive appraisal (threat/challenge) is assessed before and after the tasks by the ratio of primary appraisal to secondary appraisal according to Tomaka et al.

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No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.

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