A Stress Survey in Nurse Anesthetist Students

Education is a process of human development for quality of life. Nurse anesthetist students in 1-year training program have to face occasional stress perioperatively such as long and unpredictable working hours, exposure to chemical and radiation hazards, or the occurrence of unexpected death, particularly when a given patient was previously healthy. This can sometimes prove frustrating and may lead to unsafe practices. Students with mild to moderate stress, act as achievement motive, driving them to succeed their goals in learning. However, anyone with severe stress often fails in his or her study. If learners face tension during their education and they are not able to solve it instantaneously; the stress becomes a vicious matter.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Stress, Psychological
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: stress, psychological

Detailed Description

Education is a process of human development for quality of life. It helps people to create ideas, judgement, problem solving or working ability with competency at their full strength. Currently, people are more demanding, lawyers more litigious, and insurance companies less willing to pay. In addition, hospital directors are trying to improve their management efficiency. As a result, doctors and nurses have to work harder. Sadly, the prevalence of burnout is higher among employees who deal with patients.

Anesthesia personnel have been at the forefront of the patient safety movement. They must be reliable and skilled at communicating with surgeons, operating room (OR) nurses, and ancillary workers. As a result, anesthetists have to maintain their physical, mental health, and special sensory capabilities.

Nurse anesthetist students in 1-year training program have to deal with stressful situation days and nights. The curriculum covering theoretical and practical learning in operating theater yields cumbersome atmosphere since medical errors have become a crucial society and professional issue. Inevitably, they face occasional stress perioperatively such as long and unpredictable working hours, exposure to chemical and radiation hazards, or the occurrence of unexpected death, particularly when a given patient was previously healthy. This can sometimes prove frustrating and may lead to unsafe practices.

Stress is a phenomenon that can happen to people in general. Students with mild to moderate stress, act as achievement motive, driving them to succeed their goals in learning. However, anyone with severe stress often fails in his or her study. If learners face tension during their education and they are not able to solve it instantaneously; the stress becomes a vicious matter that yields poor learning outcomes or even expel them from school. Consequently, stress may lead to some psychological problems. Stress in graduate students concerns to many influencing factors either to demean the situation or to diminish it. The stress-related factors are 1) studying: learning difficulties, daily rounds organization, exam preparation, and unfamiliar working circumstances 2) relationships: family members, instructors, consultants, friends, and colleagues 3) playing role: adult learning, conflict of interests in finance, physical or mental status. The previous studies revealed that these factors had evil effects on students tremendously.

As a result, investigators would like to study the stress-related factors in nurse anesthetist students during their learning program.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 30

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Thailand
  • Bangkok
    • Bangkok Noi, Bangkok, Thailand, 10700
      • Siriraj Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 20 years to 40 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

nurse anesthetist students

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• voluntary, nurse anesthetist students without any honorarium

Exclusion Criteria:

• nurse anesthetist students can withdraw from the project at any time

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of participants with stress as assessed by the specific tests	stress score	1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Siriraj Hospital
• Investigators: Study Chair: Chairat Shayakul, M.D., Siriraj Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 1, 2017
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): July 1, 2017
• Study Completion (Anticipated): September 30, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 17, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 23, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): March 29, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 29, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 23, 2017
• Last Verified: March 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Psychology, Educational [F02.784.629]
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Behavioral Symptoms; Stress, Psychological
• Other Study ID Numbers: Si 099/2017

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

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

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No