Clinical trial NCT05390879: Influence of Meditation on Stress and Rumination Following Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
Official title: Influence of Meditation on Stress and Rumination Following Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Stress, Psychological
Stress, Physiological
Rumination
Exam Stress
Keywords: Stress
Performance and ruminations
Coping
Rumination
Meditation
Exam
health-student
Lead sponsor: Claude Bernard University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-05-25
Enrollment: 480
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: 2 parallels groups
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Stress and rumination are linked with the development of many mental disorders. The ECOSTRESS study has shown that poor OSCE performance has a positive effect on the occurence of state-rumination among 4th year medicine students in the context of mock exams.

The goal of IMSR study is to assess the effectiveness of a post-OSCE meditation intervention to decrease psychological stress and rumination.

Detailed description: This randomized, controlled and monocentric study will be conducted during the OSCE tests contributing towards the final exam grades for 4th year medicine students at the Claude Bernard Lyon 1 university.

Before the test (OSCE), all the students will receive information about the study and formalize their consent.

The students' OSCE performance will be evaluated by an independent examiner as part of the students' exams. Upon finishing the OSCE, the students will be divided into two groups: one subjected to post-OSCE meditation and the other one subjected to a control intervention (neutral content video).

Before both interventions, all the students will be submitted to short questionnaires regarding their feelings.

During the 6-min intervention they will be get equipped with an ear pulse sensor.

Following both interventions, all the students will be submitted to short questionnaires regarding their stress and rumination levels.

The main objective is to assess the effectiveness of meditation intervention to diminish post-OSCE rumination level. The second objective is to have a deeper understanding of the cause of rumination following the OSCE..

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adult person
* Registered as medical student at the university
* Participating at OSCE examination
* Have signed an informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria:

* None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in rumination
timeFrame: Between before and after the intervention measured just 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after interventions (during one hour after inclusion)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Physiological stress
timeFrame: During the 6 minutes long intervention (during one hour after inclusion)
measure: Change in psychological stress level
timeFrame: Between before and after the intervention measured just 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after interventions (during one hour after inclusion)
measure: Change in characterisation of stress
timeFrame: Between before and after the intervention measured just 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after interventions (during one hour after inclusion)
measure: Change in self confidence
timeFrame: Between before and after the intervention measured just 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after interventions (during one hour after inclusion)
measure: Rumination
timeFrame: One time : After intervention (during one hour after inclusion)
measure: Feelings about the intervention
timeFrame: One time : After intervention (during one hour after inclusion)
measure: Change in Activation-Deactivation Adjective Check List (Thayer)
timeFrame: Between before and after the intervention measured just 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after interventions (during one hour after inclusion)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Lyon
country: France
facility: Marc lilot
Study officials:
affiliation: Claude Bernard University
name: Gilles Rode, MD, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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