Emotion Tracking Study for Residents (ETSR)

EmoTrak, Ecological Momentary Assessment of Emotion, Stress and Satisfaction Among Residents

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Stress, Emotional
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: EmoTrak

Detailed 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).

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 100
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • California
    • San Francisco, California, United States, 94114
      • University of California

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 17 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Currently in Residency or Fellowship at UCSF

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not having an Iphone

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Crossover Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Treatment; 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.	Behavioral: EmoTrak; Ecological Momentary Assessment of Emotion through Iphone App
No Intervention: Control; The control arm does nothing for 14 days and then receives the 14 day emotion tracking listed above.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Retention of Participants Iphone App for Residents	Quantify amount of drop out through out the 14 day study and how many reports are responded two daily	14 days
Acceptability of Iphone App for Residents Online Evaluation and Mini Interviews	Evaluate online questions and qualitative mini interviews about the usability of the app	30 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Real Time Assessment Comparison to Standardized Measures	Compare Pre, Post and Midway Assessments of Stress, Burnout and Emotion Awareness with daily, longitudinal measures to explore relationships between these sources of data.	35 days
Ecological Assessment of Emotions Compared to Standardized Emotion Awareness Measures, PANAS	Comparing the daily reports of emotions in comparison to the PANAS scale of last week of experienced emotions	14 days
Ecological Assessment of Stress Compared to Standardized Perceived Stress and Emotional Exhaustion from the Maslach Burnout Inventory	Comparing the daily reports of stress s in comparison to the week of stress as measured by PSS and MBI.	14 days

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Exploratory Analysis of Reduction in Pre and Post Reported Emotional Exhaustion on the MBI	Exploratory analysis of pre and post reduction of participants using EmoTrak versus wait list control on Emotional Exhaustion subscale of Burnout.	30 days
Exploratory Analysis of Reduction in Pre and Post Reported Stress on PSS and MBI	Exploratory analysis of pre and post improvements of participants using EmoTrak versus wait list control on Perceived Stress.	30 days
Exploratory Analysis of Increase in Pre and Post Reported Resilience on the CDRisc	Exploratory analysis of pre and post improvements of participants using EmoTrak versus wait list control on a measure of resilience to dealing with stress.	30 days

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Eve Ekman, PhD, University of California, San Francisco

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Riess H, Kelley JM, Bailey RW, Dunn EJ, Phillips M. Empathy training for resident physicians: a randomized controlled trial of a neuroscience-informed curriculum. J Gen Intern Med. 2012 Oct;27(10):1280-6. doi: 10.1007/s11606-012-2063-z. Epub 2012 May 2.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: October 1, 2016
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 17, 2017
• Study Completion (Actual): December 17, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 24, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 25, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): October 28, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): January 18, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 14, 2020
• Last Verified: January 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: RAPFUNDEKMAN

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No