- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT05606887
Identifying Mental Health Distress in EM Physicians
Investigating Proactive, Digital Methods to Identify Signs and Symptoms of Mental Health Distress in Emergency Medicine Physicians
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
This proposal aims to conduct a 3-month pilot randomized control trial (n=60) testing feasibility, acceptability, and the exploratory effectiveness of digital data feedback (wearables and EMA) with tailored, symptom-specific linkage to mental health and resilience resources versus control on mental health symptoms (depression, anxiety, PTSD) and burnout in EM clinicians. The study will recruit and enroll 60 emergency medicine physicians, residents, and advanced practice providers via email and inperson outreach. Once enrolled, both arms be asked to take a baseline survey which will measure their level of well-being, burnout, depression, and anxiety.
Study participants will be randomized following consent and completion of baseline surveys. Participants will be randomly assigned to usual care or intervention. We will use 2:1 randomization. We will randomize in block sizes of 3 and 6.
Intervention: The intervention arm will then be given a wearable device and will be asked to wear it for 3 months. The device will collect biometric data on stress levels, sleep patterns, and other physiological measures of well-being. The intervention group will receive biweekly EMA short surveys, personalized bi-weekly reports from their EMA data, biometric feedback from wearable devices (sleep, heart rate variability, physical activity), and linkage to tailored and symptom-specific Cobalt resources on health and resilience. After 3 months, we will survey providers to complete a post-survey followed by a survey at 6-months following a 3-month washout period.
Control: The control arm will be asked to complete a baseline survey as well as one assessment at the end of the three-month study period. They will receive usual care, or clinician-initiated use of Penn Cobalt. They will then complete additional surveys at 3-months and 6-months.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
- University of Pennsylvania
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- 18 years of age or older
- Emergency Medicine (EM) physician or advanced practice provider
- Daily access to smart phone
- Ability to use a wrist-worn wearable device
- Has or is willing to create a Gmail / Google account
- Provides at least 20 hours per week of clinical care.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Under 18
- Not a Penn EM physician or advanced practice provider
- Does not have daily access to a smart phone
- Unwilling or unable to wear a wearable device
- Does not have or is unwilling to create a Gmail / Google account
- Does not provide at least 20 hours per week of clinical care
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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No Intervention: Control
Participants randomized to this arm will receive digital surveys over the course of 6 months (one at baseline, one at 3 months, and one at 6 months).
These surveys will be the same as the intervention arm and will ask questions related to burnout, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and stress.
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Experimental: Intervention
In addition to completing 3 surveys over the course of 6 months, participants in the intervention arm will be asked to wear a wearable device (FitBit Charge 5), complete texting-based ecological momentary assessments to gauge real-time feelings of stress, and receive bi-weekly personalized data dashboards to report back their data.
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The intervention will consist of three components:
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Feasibility of Intervention (FIM)
Time Frame: Through study completion, on average 6 months
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Feasibility will be measured by the Feasibility of Intervention Measure (FIM)
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Through study completion, on average 6 months
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Feasibility of Intervention (Study Retention)
Time Frame: Through study completion, on average 6 months
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Feasibility will be measured by study retention
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Through study completion, on average 6 months
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Acceptability of Intervention (AIM)
Time Frame: Through study completion, on average 6 months
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Acceptability will be measured by the validated Acceptability of Intervention Measure.
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Through study completion, on average 6 months
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Acceptability of Intervention (EMA Completion Rates)
Time Frame: Through study completion, on average 6 months
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Acceptability will be measured by the open/completion rates of ecological momentary assessment.
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Through study completion, on average 6 months
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Anxiety
Time Frame: Through study completion, on average 6 months
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While the study will not be powered to detect effectiveness of the device on stress and other mental health indicators, secondary outcome measures will explore the potential for effect.
The GAD-7 will be used to measure anxiety.
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Through study completion, on average 6 months
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Depression
Time Frame: Through study completion, on average 6 months
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While the study will not be powered to detect effectiveness of the device on stress and other mental health indicators, secondary outcome measures will explore the potential for effect.
The PHQ-8 will be used to measure depression.
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Through study completion, on average 6 months
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Professional Burnout
Time Frame: Through study completion, on average 6 months
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While the study will not be powered to detect effectiveness of the device on stress and other mental health indicators, secondary outcome measures will explore the potential for effect.
The Stanford Professional Fulfillment Index will be used to measure burnout.
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Through study completion, on average 6 months
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Time Frame: Through study completion, on average 6 months
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While the study will not be powered to detect effectiveness of the device on stress and other mental health indicators, secondary outcome measures will explore the potential for effect.
The PC-PTSD-5 will be used to measure PTSD.
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Through study completion, on average 6 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Estimated)
Study Completion (Estimated)
Study Registration Dates
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 0852220
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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