Influence of Relaxing Breathing Before Each Station of an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (ZENECOS)

Claude Bernard University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Performance Anxiety; Coping Skills; Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Intervention of standardized relaxing breathing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06466993

ZENECOS

Details and patient eligibility

About

SObjective and Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) has been incorporated recently in the certification process as a final national undergraduate ranking examination. This exam is an additional major stressor for medical students.

The aim of this study was to compare the efficiency on stress reduction of a standardized relaxing breathing occuring during rotation of the OSCE stations just before the start of the next upcoming OSCE station, in medical student, during the OSCE.

Full description

Stress generated during the curriculum might have deleterious effects on the wellbeing and the health of medical students. Objective and Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) has been incorporated recently in the certification process as a final national undergraduate ranking examination. This exam is an additional major stressor for medical students.

Stress coping strategies could be implemented to help them better prepare for this examination. The aim of this study was to compare the efficiency on stress reduction of a standardized relaxing breathing as a coping interventions occuring during rotation of the OSCE stations just before the start of the next upcoming OSCE station, in medical student, during the OSCE.

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all volontary medical students of the second cycle that came for their exam during the sessions of June 2024 from the University of Lyon (Medecine ESt)

Exclusion criteria

• no exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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400 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Relaxing breathing occuring during rotation of OSCE station

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intervention of standardized relaxing breathing

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Free time during rotation of OSCE station

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intervention of standardized relaxing breathing