Clinical trial NCT02783027: The SleepTrackTXT2 Randomized Trial With Air-medical Personnel
Official title: Real-time Fatigue Mitigation With Air-medical Personnel: The SleepTrackTXT2 Randomized Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Poor Quality Sleep
Fatigue
Lead sponsor: University of Pittsburgh
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-05-26
Enrollment: 83
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 100
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The overarching goal of this proposal is to address the MedEvac foundation priority of educational techniques and technologies and improve Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) safety by determining if overall sleep quality and intra-shift fatigue of HEMS clinicians can be improved with real-time assessment and intervention.

Aim 1: To determine the short-term impact of an enhanced SleepTrackTXT intervention on HEMS clinician fatigue reported in real-time during and at the end of shift work.

Aim 2: To determine the long-term impact of the SleepTrackTXT intervention on sleep quality and sleep health indicators including hours of sleep and recovery between shift work.

Detailed description: The investigators will examine short term impact by examining self-reported fatigue captured at the start, during, and end of scheduled shifts.

The investigators will determine longer-term impact on sleep quality by comparing scores on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) taken at baseline and then again at 4 months.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 18 years of age and older
* working clinically at a study site
* currently working in shifts
* has a smart phone and
* willing to take part in a research study that requires the sending and receiving of multiple text messages daily over 4-months

Exclusion Criteria:

* does not meet inclusion criteria

Primary outcomes:
measure: Sleep Quality
timeFrame: 4 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Fatigue During Shiftwork
timeFrame: Every 4 hours up to 12 hours within work shifts
measure: Sleepiness During Shiftwork
timeFrame: Every 4 hours up to 12 hours within a work shift
measure: Difficulty With Concentration During Shiftwork
timeFrame: Every 4 hours up to 12 hours at end of work shift
measure: Inter-Shift Recovery
timeFrame: 4 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Pittsburgh
country: United States
facility: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center / STAT MedEvac
state: Pennsylvania
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
name: Daniel Patterson, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Patterson PD, Moore CG, Guyette FX, Doman JM, Sequeira D, Werman HA, Swanson D, Hostler D, Lynch J, Russo L, Hines L, Swecker K, Runyon MS, Buysse DJ. Fatigue mitigation with SleepTrackTXT2 in air medical emergency care systems: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2017 Jun 5;18(1):254. doi: 10.1186/s13063-017-1999-z.
citation: Patterson PD, Moore CG, Guyette FX, Doman JM, Weaver MD, Sequeira DJ, Werman HA, Swanson D, Hostler D, Lynch J, Russo L, Hines L, Swecker K, Kroemer AJ, Runyon MS, Buysse DJ. Real-Time Fatigue Mitigation with Air-Medical Personnel: The SleepTrackTXT2 Randomized Trial. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2019 Jul-Aug;23(4):465-478. doi: 10.1080/10903127.2018.1532476. Epub 2018 Oct 29.