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Inflammation and Medical Provider Attitudes, Cognition, and Treatment Decisions Study (IMPACT)

25 settembre 2026 aggiornato da: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

The Impacts of Adverse Provider Conditions on Medical Decision-Making and Patient Care

This is a randomized, double-blind clinical trial involving emergency medicine and internal medicine healthcare providers as participants. The intervention involves the administration of the seasonal influenza vaccine or a saline placebo; this protocol is used in psychoneuro-immunology to simulate a state of mild illness. The primary aim is to examine whether acute inflammation induced by receiving the vaccine affects decision-making on standardized psychological reaction time tasks and questionnaires. Participants attend two laboratory sessions on consecutive days, receive either a seasonal influenza vaccine or a saline placebo at the first session, provide blood samples to measure inflammatory cytokines, and complete a series of standardized assessments of medical decision-making and social attitudes. Participants who received the placebo during the first session will receive the vaccine during the second session.

Overall, the study is designed to examine how adverse provider conditions particularly acute inflammation, burnout, and concerns about one's own health affect provider judgments and healthcare-related decision-making. The primary hypothesis is that providers experiencing greater adverse conditions at the time of research participation would have altered decision-making compared to those experiencing fewer adverse conditions.

Panoramica dello studio

Stato

Reclutamento

Condizioni

Intervento / Trattamento

Descrizione dettagliata

Participants will provide informed consent during a call (Zoom, Teams, Phone) with the University of Arkansas research team. The research team member will explain the study procedures to the participants and will give them the opportunity to ask questions. During the call, they will review the electronic consent form and will sign the form after all of their questions have been answered. They will receive a paper copy of the consent documents to review one more time when they arrive at the first research session at their site.

Participants will complete two lab sessions on consecutive days (scheduled as close to 24-hours apart as possible) at a collaborating research site. At each site, a member of the local team will coordinate the sessions, including providing instructions before participants complete various study tasks. During each session, participants will complete standardized measures of decision-making that will allow us to comprehensively document how adverse provider conditions (acute inflammation, burnout, stress, concern about own health) affect objectivity in decision-making across multiple domains. These standardized measures include reaction time tasks and questionnaires. Participants will also complete questionnaires that assess demographic information, personality information, and questions about their experiences with adverse provider conditions (burnout, stress, other workplace demands, mood, concerns about own health). During each session, participants will provide blood samples (~3mL) that will be assayed for pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin-6 and interleukin-1beta. Participants will be randomly assigned to either the experimental or control condition using stratified permuted block randomization. Those in the experimental condition will receive the influenza vaccine at the end of Session 1 and those in the control condition will receive a saline placebo injection instead. We will use a double-blind design so that neither the participant nor the research assistant administering the decision-making tasks will know the condition.

At the end of the second session, participants will be debriefed and informed about the condition they were assigned to (up until this point, the research coordinator and participant will be blind to participant condition). Those in the control condition will receive the vaccine before they leave.

Tipo di studio

Interventistico

Iscrizione (Stimato)

210

Fase

  • Fase 2

Contatti e Sedi

Questa sezione fornisce i recapiti di coloro che conducono lo studio e informazioni su dove viene condotto lo studio.

Contatto studio

  • Nome: Anastasia Makhanova, PhD
  • Numero di telefono: 479-575-8798
  • Email: ammakhan@uark.edu

Luoghi di studio

    • Arkansas
      • Fayetteville, Arkansas, Stati Uniti, 72703
        • Reclutamento
        • University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
        • Contatto:
        • Investigatore principale:
          • Roy Kamoga, MD
    • New Mexico
      • Albuquerque, New Mexico, Stati Uniti, 87106
        • Reclutamento
        • University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
        • Contatto:
        • Investigatore principale:
          • Joe Alcock, MD
    • Virginia
      • Roanoke, Virginia, Stati Uniti, 24016
        • Reclutamento
        • Carilion Medical Center
        • Investigatore principale:
          • Michael Wilson, MD
        • Contatto:

Criteri di partecipazione

I ricercatori cercano persone che corrispondano a una certa descrizione, chiamata criteri di ammissibilità. Alcuni esempi di questi criteri sono le condizioni generali di salute di una persona o trattamenti precedenti.

Criteri di ammissibilità

Età idonea allo studio

18 anni e precedenti (Adulto, Adulto più anziano)

Accetta volontari sani

Sì

Sessi ammissibili allo studio

Tutto

Descrizione

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Healthcare providers currently employed in emergency medicine or internal medicine
  • Must be one of the following: Resident, fellow, attending, or advanced practice provider (NP, PA)
  • Individual is able to travel to the research site for sessions
  • Has not had an acute viral or bacterial infection within the previous 14 days
  • Has not taken an antiviral medication such as Tamiflu in the previous 48 hours
  • Has not taken corticosteroids or immunosuppressants in the previous 30 days

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Does not want to receive a flu vaccine as part of the study
  • Has received a flu vaccine this season already (after August of current year)
  • Has had a prior allergic reaction or bad side effect, including Guillain-Barre, due to a flu vaccine or another vaccine
  • Is allergic to eggs or have had an adverse reaction to egg-derived vaccine
  • Is pregnant or suspects a possible pregnancy
  • Has congenital or acquired immunodeficiency such as common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) or HIV/AIDS
  • Has an active hematologic malignancy (like leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma)
  • Has Type 1 diabetes
  • Has Graft vs. Host Disease
  • Uses aspirin, ibuprofen (i.e., NSAIDs), acetaminophen, or naproxen daily
  • Uses corticosteroids or immunosuppressants daily
  • Is currently receiving systemic chemotherapy and/or immunotherapy
  • Has had changes in daily prescription medication in the last 3 months (starting, stopping, changing dose)

Piano di studio

Questa sezione fornisce i dettagli del piano di studio, compreso il modo in cui lo studio è progettato e ciò che lo studio sta misurando.

Come è strutturato lo studio?

Dettagli di progettazione

  • Scopo principale: Ricerca sui servizi sanitari
  • Assegnazione: Randomizzato
  • Modello interventistico: Assegnazione parallela
  • Mascheramento: Doppio

Armi e interventi

Gruppo di partecipanti / Arm
Intervento / Trattamento
Sperimentale: Influenza Vaccine Injection

Receives the influenza vaccine at the end of Session 1

A single administration of a seasonal trivalent cell-based influenza vaccine delivered by injection into the arm at the end of the first study session.

Comparatore placebo: Placebo Injection

Receives a saline placebo injection at the end of Session 1

Control group will receive a saline placebo injection at the end of Session 1

Cosa sta misurando lo studio?

Misure di risultato primarie

Misura del risultato
Misura Descrizione
Lasso di tempo
Testing Automatic Judgments: "Implicit Association Test"
Lasso di tempo: 2 days

This task calculates a "d" score across trials to quantify the strength of implicit associations. Higher d scores indicate more negative automatic attitudes.

2 days
Testing Deliberate Judgments: "Feeling Thermometers"
Lasso di tempo: 2 days

Explicit attitudes are assessed via 100-point Feeling Thermometers that ask for feeling toward different patient groups. Lower values indicate more negative attitudes.

2 days

Misure di risultato secondarie

Misura del risultato
Misura Descrizione
Lasso di tempo
Questionnaire Assessing Social Avoidance: "Patient Sorting Task"
Lasso di tempo: 1 day

A behavioral decision-making task order patients within an array of three. The three patients are arranged in an order in which the participant would choose to see them. The outcome is the number of trials when a patient from a target group is seen later than a patient from a control group. Higher values indicate greater potential for treatment inconsistencies.

1 day
Questionnaire Assessing Perception of Others' Pain: "Threshold for Detecting Pain on Faces"
Lasso di tempo: 2 days

Participants will see 11 images of targets of different racial groups that have each been morphed to go from no pain to high pain, responding to a yes/no question about whether the target is in pain in each image. The threshold at which participants begin perceiving pain will be calculated for each target and averaged within racial groups. Differences between groups indicate potential for greater treatment inconsistencies.

2 days
Questionnaire Assessing Cognitive Depletion: "Stroop Task"
Lasso di tempo: 2 days

To measure the delay in reaction time between neutral and incongruent stimuli. The task calculates an interference score across many trials to show the difference in response latency between incongruent and congruent trials. Greater interference is a measure of cognitive depletion.

2 days
Questionnaire Assessing Motivation: "Motivation to Respond without Prejudice Scale"
Lasso di tempo: 2 days

It is administered on a scale of 1 to 9, and the questions are about both internal and external motivation. Higher scores represent more motivation.

2 days

Collaboratori e investigatori

Qui è dove troverai le persone e le organizzazioni coinvolte in questo studio.

Sponsor

Collaboratori

Studiare le date dei record

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Inizio studio (Stimato)

1 settembre 2026

Completamento primario (Stimato)

1 ottobre 2027

Completamento dello studio (Stimato)

1 dicembre 2027

Date di iscrizione allo studio

Primo inviato

14 settembre 2026

Primo inviato che soddisfa i criteri di controllo qualità

21 settembre 2026

Primo Inserito (Effettivo)

25 settembre 2026

Aggiornamenti dei record di studio

Ultimo aggiornamento pubblicato (Effettivo)

30 settembre 2026

Ultimo aggiornamento inviato che soddisfa i criteri QC

25 settembre 2026

Ultimo verificato

1 settembre 2026

Maggiori informazioni

Termini relativi a questo studio

Altri numeri di identificazione dello studio

  • R01MD019051 (Sovvenzione/contratto NIH degli Stati Uniti)

Piano per i dati dei singoli partecipanti (IPD)

Hai intenzione di condividere i dati dei singoli partecipanti (IPD)?

NO

Informazioni su farmaci e dispositivi, documenti di studio

Studia un prodotto farmaceutico regolamentato dalla FDA degli Stati Uniti

Sì

Studia un dispositivo regolamentato dalla FDA degli Stati Uniti

No

prodotto fabbricato ed esportato dagli Stati Uniti

Sì

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