Clinical trial NCT01574924: Personality Change During Medical Residency
Official title: Personality Change During Medical Residency Across Different Medical Specialties
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Personality
Coping Skills
Keywords: Personality change
Perfectionism
Coping
Medical Specialty
Medical Residency
Lead sponsor: University of Coimbra
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2012-04-10
Enrollment: 600
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 23
Maximum age (years): 45
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: All portuguese medical (first year) residents will be invited to participate in the study (target population).

Targeted enrollment stategies will be used to recruit participants (individual invitation emails). Also, the study will be disclosed in some social networks. The research team has created a proper email account (personalidade.internato@gmail.com) to answer any questions and to change email with the participants of the study.

To those who accepted and consent to participate (study population), it will be send the online link to create a confidential account and access (and to give answers to the questionnaires).

Brief summary: The Ethics Committee of Hospital and University Center of Coimbra (Portugal) complies, reports and is supervisioned by the Portuguese Ethics Committee.

The Ethics Committee of Hospital and University Center of Coimbra is an multidisciplinary organ of Ethics experts that give support to the board of hospital directors, the health personnel and patients, regarding bioethical issues emerging from clinical assistance activities (addressed to patient's health being, education and clinical research).


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Medical residents with ages between 23 and 45 years old, attending the first year of medical specialty in Portugal in the following specialties\*: General Surgery, Neurosurgery; Orthopedics; Intern Medicine, Gastroenterology; Cardiology; Rheumatology; Endocrinology; Oncology; Intensive Medicine; Pediatric; Radiology; Clinical Pathology; Neurology and Psychiatry.
* Acceptance and commitment to participate in the study.
* Signature of study' informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Attendance, during the study, in an international formative stage with a duration superior to 12 months.
* Previous attendance of other medical specialty for more than one year.
* Present or past history of major psychiatry disorders (illicit drug abuse with dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Personality
timeFrame: First assessment: 1st month of medical specialty. Second (final) assessment: 1st month after medical specialty final exam [4, 5, 6 (or more) years after the 1st evaluation, according to the time taken to complete medical residency].
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Perfectionism
timeFrame: First assessment: 1st month of medical specialty. Second (final) assessment: 1st month after medical specialty final exam [4, 5, 6 (or more) years after the 1st evaluation, according to the time taken to complete medical residency].
measure: Problem Solving Inventory (Vaz Serra et al)
timeFrame: First assessment: 1st month of medical specialty. Second (final) assessment: 1st month after medical specialty final exam [4, 5, 6 (or more) years after the 1st evaluation, according to the time taken to complete medical residency].
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Coimbra
country: Portugal
facility: Department of Psychiatry at Hospitalar and Universitary Center of Coimbra, EPE
Study officials:
affiliation: Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE
name: Fernanda Miguel, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE
name: Fernanda Miguel, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE
name: Eva Mendes, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE
name: Susana Renca, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE
name: Joana Andrade, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE
name: Sandra Pereira, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE
name: Catarina Pereira, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE
name: Helena Rita, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE
name: Joaquim Cerejeira, MD. Ph D
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE
name: Ana Cabral, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE
name: Salomé Caldeira, Clinical Psychologist
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Institute of Medical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra
name: Maria Soares, Ph D
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Institute of Medical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra
name: Telma Pereira, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Institute of Medical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra; Department of Psychiatry at Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, EPE
name: António Macedo, MD. PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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