Task Focusing Strategy During a Simulated Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

University Hospital Basel

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: instruction

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01645566

BS1330978

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a prospective randomized controlled study. The aim of this study is to

1. describe the stress patterns experienced during a CPR situation;
2. investigate whether the perceived stress was associated with CPR performance in terms of hands-on time and time to start CPR;
3. to investigate whether this task focusing strategy reduces perceived stress levels, and
4. whether this translates into better CPR performance. Based on findings that clear, directive leadership can enhance performance in cardiac resuscitation, we further 5) investigate if stress was associated with fewer leadership statements.

Enrollment: 124 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 4th year medical students

Exclusion criteria

• No informed consent

Trial design

124 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention

Experimental group

Description:

instructions about focusing on relevant task elements by posing two task-focusing questions ("what is the patient's condition?", "what immediate action is needed?") when feeling overwhelmed by stress (intervention-group)

Treatment:

Behavioral: instruction

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No instructions