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NCT Number: NCT03784560

Effects of Partial Sleep Deprivation on Cognitive Function of Anesthesiologists

The purpose of this study was to evaluate differences in cognitive functions at baseline and following night shift at a trauma center among faculty anesthesiologists.

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Key information

Conditions

Cognitive Dysfunction Cognition Disorders Dyssomnias Mental Disorders Nervous System Diseases Neurocognitive Disorders Neurologic Manifestations Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Signs and Symptoms Sleep Deprivation Sleep Wake Disorders

Age range

25 year–30 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Anesthesia Department

Cairo, Egypt

About this study

Anesthesiology is one of the few health-care professions that often demands split-second decisions. This is especially true in a trauma setting where the situation in the operating room can change drastically in a few seconds. Anesthesiologists who cover trauma calls overnight are subject to long work shifts and demanding schedules that may adversely affect their performance. In combination with the disruption of circadian rhythm that can occur with night shift work, decline in performance from the long work shifts can lead to errors in judgment.

An anonymous questionnaire included two groups of different items were used. Items of the first group are about the personal data i.e. age, sex, marital status and parenting status, consumption behavior (tea, coffee, carbonated drinks, tobacco, anxiolytics, antidepressants, psychotropic agents and sport), and professional activity (number of extended worked shifts per month, number of weekends worked per month).

Items of the second group are related to the night shift itself i.e. number of cases, and the rest hours during the shift.

Psychomotor Vigilance Task, Karolinska Sleepiness Scale, Epworth Sleepiness Scale and Trail Making Test before and after the shift were performed.

Who can participate

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Full-time faculty anesthesiologists employed at Kasr El- Ainy Hospital.
  • Both genders
  • Ages of 25-28 years.
  • Varying levels of experience.

Exclusion criteria

  • History of chronic neurological disease.
  • History of psychiatric disorders such as:
  • Episode of major depression within the past 2 years.
  • Lifetime history of schizophrenia.
  • Other psychotic illness or bipolar illness.

Treatment and study plan

The Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT)

Other

PVT has emerged as one of the most widely used tools to assess vigilant attention. Vigilance can be defined as sustained attention and tonic alertness. In sleep deprived individuals, vigilance is the component of cognition that is most consistently and dramatically affected. The PVT is a reaction-time test that allows the collection of a large amount of data in a relatively short period of time. These characteristics increase the sensitivity of the test to detect even small changes in vigilant attention, which can wax and wane within seconds.

Other names: PVT

Epworth Sleepiness Scale

Other

Epworth Sleepiness Scale a set of questions that assess excessive daytime sleepiness during professional activities and vacations.

This scale was designed to assess the efficiency of sleep apnea treatments. It is also used for the subjective sleepiness assessment based on the likelihood of falling asleep in different everyday life situations. This results in an overall score.

Other names: ESS

Karolinska sleeping scale

Other

The KSS is assumed to be an ordinal scale with a unitary structure. KSS scores may require standardization to control for differences between subjects. The changes observed in the EEG/EOG with drowsiness do not usually appear until KSS scores reach 7 and higher. Lower KSS scores (<5) may reflect differences in the subjective awareness of fatigue as much, or more than, levels of drowsiness.

Higher KSS scores (7+) may refer more specifically to the state of drowsiness because the subject may then have experienced involuntary dozing behavior, with "lapsing" episodes and brief loss of awareness of the here-and-now, followed by arousal and the return of awareness, including some awareness of recently having dozed off

Other names: KSS

Trail making test

Other

Most variants of this test, which was apparently introduced in 1938 by Partington (Partington & Leiter, 1949), have at least two conditions. In condition A the participant is to draw lines to connect circled numbers in a numerical sequence (i.e., 1-2-3, etc.) as rapidly as possible. In condition B the participant is to draw lines to connect circled numbers and letters in an alternating numeric and alphabetic sequence (i.e., 1-A-2-B, etc.) as rapidly as possible.

Other names: TMT

Primary outcomes

  1. The Psychomotor Vigilance Task test

    Time frame: 24 hours

    the participant presses a response button as soon as a visual stimulus appears on the screen. There is standard version of the PVT with duration of 10 min. The shorter version, PVT brief, with duration of 3 minutes have been used in the current study using PEBL 2 software computer program and reaction times (RTs) were displayed to the study participants in milliseconds.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Epworth Sleepiness Scale

    Time frame: at the beginning of the shift, at the end of 24 shift and at the end of the following working day

    the subjects are asked to rate on a scale from 0 to 3 their usual probability of dozing off in 8 different situations, with 0= "would never doze" and 3 = "a high chance of dozing". The total ESS score, ranging from 0 to 24, is the sum score of the eight times. Normal day time sleepiness is represented with scores from 0 to 10 detect, while increased levels of excessive daytime sleepiness are represented with scores of 11-24 represent.

  2. Karolinska sleeping scale

    Time frame: 24 hours

    self-assessed 9-point Likert scale for subjective assessment of the individual's level of drowsiness at a time. It has word descriptors to describe the scale points from 1= "very alert" to 9= "very sleepy, fighting sleep, an effort to keep awake".

  3. Trail making test

    Time frame: 24 hours

    The TMT is formed of two parts. In TMT-A, the subject is asked to draw lines sequentially connecting 25 encircled numbers distributed on a paper sheet. In TMT-B except, the subject is asked to alternate between numbers and letters (e.g., 1, A, 2, B, 3, C, etc.). Each part is represented by time in seconds that required to finish the task.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Cairo University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Effects of Partial Sleep Deprivation Following Night Shift on Cognitive Functions of Egyptians Anesthesiologists as a Representative of Developing Countries; Prospective Observational Study

Acronym: sleep

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Dec 24, 2018
Registry last updated
Dec 3, 2019

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