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Understanding Stress, Burnout, and Behavioral Patterns in Medical Residents Using Large-scale Longitudinal Wearable Recordings

Abstract

Medical residency training is often associated with physically intense and emotionally demanding tasks, requiring them to engage in extended working hours providing complex clinical care. Residents are hence susceptible to negative psychological effects, including stress and anxiety, that can lead to decreased well-being, affecting them achieving desired training outcomes. Understanding the daily behavioral patterns of residents can guide the researchers to identify the source of stress in residency training, offering unique opportunities to improve residency programs. In this study, we investigate the workplace behavioral patterns of 43 medical residents across different stages of their training, using longitudinal wearable recordings collected over a 3-week rotation. Specifically, we explore their ambulatory patterns, the computer access, and the interactions with mentors of residents. Our analysis reveals that …

Metadata

publication
arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.09028, 2024
year
2024
publication date
2024/7/15
authors
Tiantian Feng, Shrikanth Narayanan
link
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10782414/
resource_link
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.09028
conference
2024 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
pages
1-7
publisher
IEEE