An interventional study of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine in Stress, Job, Student Burnout and Stress, Physiological, sponsored by The Touro College and University System. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-11-14.
Sponsored by The Touro College and University System · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate stress biomarkers, subjective stress levels, and cognitive function in medical students. The main question[s] it aims to answer are:
Does regular osteopathic manipulative treatment affect stress in medical students? Does regular osteopathic manipulative treatment affect cognitive function in medical students?
Participants will be split into two groups, control and treatment, and undergo a designated protocol for six weeks. The treatment protocol will include weekly sessions of three OMT techniques: paraspinal inhibition, rib raising, and condylar decompression. Concurrently, participants' salivary cortisol levels will be collected weekly and analyzed using an Invitrogen ELISA Immunoassay Kit. Additionally, cognitive function will be assessed weekly via Lumosity, while stress levels are gauged using the College Student Stress Scale (CSSS) survey.
Researchers will compare one cohort of medical students who receive weekly OMT and another cohort of medical students who have weekly check-ins without OMT to see if OMT can affect changes in stress biomarkers, subjective stress scales, and cognitive function.
236 studies on the registry are indexed under Occupational Stress; 64 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 10 is below the median of 89 across 167 interventional studies indexed under Occupational Stress.
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Other: Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine
Individuals in the experimental cohort will undergo a systematic osteopathic manipulative treatment protocol encompassing paraspinal inhibition, rib raising, and condylar decompression techniques.
Weekly Cortisol Level
Salivary Cortisol as measured in an ELISA Immunoassay
Time frame: Weekly, over the course of 8 week study
College Student Subjective Stress Survey (CSSS) Numerical Score
Numerical Score collected from the College Student Subjective Stress Survey, a 10-item survey investigating occurrence of stressors over the course of a week, with each item being rated from 1 (Never) to 5 (Very Often). A lower score reflects lower perceived stress while a higher score reflects higher perceived stress.
Time frame: Weekly, over the course of 8 week study
LPI
Learning Performance Index Metric from Lumosity
Time frame: Weekly, over the course of 8 week study
Plan to share: No
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