SleepTrackTXT Feasibility and Pilot Study

Completed · Early Phase 1

Conditions studied: Fatigue

In brief

Aim 1: To determine if real-time assessments of perceived sleepiness and fatigue using text-messaging impacts an emergency medicine clinician's Attitudes, Perceived Norms, Self-Efficacy, Alertness Habits, Perceived Importance of Fatigue, Knowledge of Sleepiness/Fatigue, and Perceptions of Environmental Constraints regarding behaviors that can improve alertness during shift work. Aim 2: To determine if text-messaging emergency care workers fatigue-reduction strategies in real-time at the start and during shift work reduces worker perceived sleepiness and fatigue at the end of shift work.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02063737

Run by

University of Pittsburgh

People needed

100

Starts

2014-01-01

Expected to finish

2014-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-08-05

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Are 18 years of age or older;
• Currently work in the emergency medicine setting as an emergency physician, emergency nurse, or emergency medical technician (EMT) / paramedic worker;
• Currently working shifts as part of your employment in the emergency medicine setting;
• Have a cell-phone / smartphone that can receive and send text-messages;
• Willing to take part in a research study where you are required to send and receive multiple text-messages at the start, during, and end of your shift work?

You may not qualify if…

• 1: Those that do not meet inclusion criteria.

Where it is running

• University of Pittsburgh Department of Emergency Medicine School of Medicine — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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