Relationship between psychological characteristics, personality traits, and training on performance in a neonatal resuscitation scenario

Autor(en)

Vito Giordano, K. Bibl, A. Felnhofer, O. Kothgassner, P. Steinbauer, F. Eibensteiner, P. Gröpel, F. Scharnowski, M. Wagner, A. Berger, M. Olischar, D. Steyrl

Abstrakt

Background: In life-threatening emergency events, prompt decision-making and accurate reactions are essential for saving a human's life. Some of these skills can be improved by regular simulation trainings. However, besides these factors, individual characteristics may play a significant role in the patients' outcome after a resuscitation event. This study aimed to differentiate personality characteristics of team members who take responsibility for their actions, contextualizing the effect of training on resuscitation performance. Methods: Six hundred and two third-year medical students were asked to answer psychological and personality questionnaires. Fifty-five of them performed in a neonatal simulation resuscitation scenario. To assess participants' performances in the NLS scenario, we used a scenario-based designed NLS checklist. A machine learning design was utilized to better understand the interaction of psychological characteristics and training. The first model aimed to understand how to differentiate between people who take responsibility for their actions vs. those who do not. In a second model, the goal was to understand the relevance of training by contextualizing the effect of training to other important psychological and personality characteristics like locus of control, anxiety, emotion regulation, openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Results: No statistically significant differences were found for psychological characteristics between the training group and the no training group. However, as expected, differences were noted in favor of the training group for performance and within gender for psychological characteristics. When correcting for all these information in a model, anxiety and gender were the most important factors associated with taking responsibility for an action, while training was the only relevant factor in explaining performance during a neonatal resuscitation scenario. Conclusion: Training had a significantly stronger effect on performance in medical students in a neonatal resuscitation scenario than individual characteristics such as demographics, personality, and trait anxiety.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Klinische und Gesundheitspsychologie, Institut für Sport- und Bewegungswissenschaft, Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden

Externe Organisation(en)

Medizinische Universität Wien

Journal

Frontiers in Pediatrics

Band

10

ISSN

2296-2360

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.1000544

Publikationsdatum

11-2022

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

302035 Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde, 501004 Differentielle Psychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/371dd62f-1eb6-4499-aa07-2ef2b8afbddf