Emotion Tracking Study for Residents (ETSR)

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stress, Emotional

Treatments: Behavioral: EmoTrak

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02947477

RAPFUNDEKMAN

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed study will develop and pilot a fourteen-day assessment tailored for the high-demand schedule of residents through a smart phone intervention, EmoTrak.EmoTrak uses ecological measurement assessment (EMA), which solicits real-time user feedback at various time points across a series of days or weeks.

Full description

The investigators will perform a randomized controlled trial that compares residents, using EmoTrak with a wait list control group. After two weeks, the active control group becomes the treatment group. All participants will be evaluated four times from at baseline to two months. The measures to explore for any pre and post change are stress reduction on the emotional exhaustion scale of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and improved resilience on the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS).

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Currently in Residency or Fellowship at UCSF

Exclusion criteria

• Not having an Iphone

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment

Experimental group

Description:

The EMA intervention uses twice-a-day interactive questions for emotion tracking including type of emotion, intensity of emotion, trigger to emotion and response to emotion through an Iphone app designed for the study. The study users receive individualized feedback about their daily reporting of emotions, sleep and stress.The study tracking is for 14 days.

Treatment:

Behavioral: EmoTrak

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The control arm does nothing for 14 days and then receives the 14 day emotion tracking listed above.