Zapata Isain, Farrell Joseph, Morrell Svetlana, Ryznar Rebecca, Hoang Tuan N, LaPorta Anthony J
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Parker, CO, 80134, USA.
Department of Military Medicine, Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Parker, CO, 80134, USA.
Compr Psychoneuroendocrinol. 2021 Feb 3;5:100031. doi: 10.1016/j.cpnec.2021.100031. eCollection 2021 Feb.
Lifetime exposure to stress leads to risk of suffering from cumulative detrimental physiological and psychological ailments. Due to the nature of healthcare and exposure to trauma, medical professionals are particularly susceptible to the negative impacts of high stress environments. emotional intelligence plays a role in ameliorating the risk of being negatively impacted by these stressors. As such, there is special interest to develop and implement training interventions for medical personnel that would allow them to improve emotional intelligence potential with the goal of enabling them to handle stress better and mitigate burnout. A hyper-realistic surgical simulation training session, replicating the intensity of a Mass-Casualty Event scenario, was implemented to allow medical professionals to experience this in real time. Overall, the training led to increased emotional intelligence, correlating with decreased hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and sympathetic nervous system stress biomarkers, cortisol and α-amylase. This novel training provides, at least, short-term improvements in emotional intelligence that is reflected with a physiological response. These results guide the ongoing effort to develop therapeutic tools to improve long term stress management, mitigate burnout and reduce post-traumatic stress risk after an exposure to a Mass-Casualty event scenario.
终生暴露于压力之下会导致罹患累积性有害生理和心理疾病的风险。由于医疗保健的性质以及接触创伤的缘故，医学专业人员特别容易受到高压力环境的负面影响。情商在减轻这些压力源产生负面影响的风险方面发挥着作用。因此，人们对为医务人员开发和实施培训干预措施有着特别的兴趣，这些措施将使他们能够提高情商潜力，目的是使他们能够更好地应对压力并减轻职业倦怠。实施了一次超逼真的外科模拟培训课程，模拟大规模伤亡事件场景的强度，以便医学专业人员能实时体验这种情况。总体而言，该培训提高了情商，这与下丘脑 - 垂体 - 肾上腺轴和交感神经系统压力生物标志物皮质醇和α - 淀粉酶的降低相关。这种新颖的培训至少在短期内提高了情商，这通过生理反应得以体现。这些结果为正在进行的开发治疗工具的努力提供了指导，以改善长期压力管理、减轻职业倦怠并降低接触大规模伤亡事件场景后的创伤后应激风险。
