Real-time investigation of stress in foundation year doctors
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Stress in foundation year doctors: real-time observational, self-report and physiological investigation during the working day
IRAS ID
148903
Contact name
Cheryl Bell
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Aberdeen
Research summary
Understanding stress in junior doctors is important for the doctors themselves and because it may affect the care that patients receive. The stress that doctors experience is likely to be a product of both the demands of the job and individual ways of dealing with these demands. This PhD project will use recently developed technical and statistical methods to investigate the sources and consequences of stress in doctors in their first and second postgraduate years by relating measures of what they are doing, to measures of how they are feeling, what demands they are under, and how well they believe they are performing. Information will be collected on doctors’ work tasks, feelings of stress, and stress-related changes in heart rate in real-time using electronic diaries and a heart rate and activity monitor. Participants will be foundation year doctors on medical and surgical wards at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
REC name
North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 1
REC reference
14/NS/0074
Date of REC Opinion
30 Apr 2014
REC opinion
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