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

St Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Medical Students Well-being and Anxiety

Treatments: Other: Night shift shadowing program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04822454

StJosephBeirut

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Night shift shadowing program

Experimental group

Description:

Medical students who participated in a night shift shadowing program prior to their first official night shifts

Treatment:

Other: Night shift shadowing program

No night shift shadowing program

No Intervention group

Description:

Medical students who did not participate in the night shift shadowing program prior to their first official night shifts