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Eval Health Prof. 2015;38(3):423-8.

Notes From the Field: Changes in the Attentional Capacity and Emotional State of Physicians After Working at Busy Outpatient Clinics.

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제1저자 이연주 · 교신저자 임재준

소속 (3)
  1. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea.
  2. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
  3. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea yimjj@snu.ac.kr.

Abstract

To examine changes in the performance of physicians after working in busy outpatient clinics, we conducted a prospective study, involving full-time clinicians who held morning and afternoon outpatient clinics on the same day. The participants completed three measures of attention, the psychomotor vigilance task, two-back test, and trail-making test, and a measure of emotion, the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI), before and after the two clinic sessions. The physicians saw a mean of 91.3 patients in the two outpatient clinics on the day of testing. Overall, performance in the attention test did not deteriorate after the two successive outpatient sessions. However, we observed an increased STAXI score in 24 (54.3%) participants and saw a significant overall increase in STAXI scores. Our results indicate that busy outpatient sessions may increase physicians' anger although their attentional capacity appears to be maintained.

© The Author(s) 2015.

Keywords

attentionemotional changeoutpatient clinicphysicianworkload

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그 밖의 정보
출판 형태
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
저널
Evaluation & the health professions · eISSN 1552-3918
전자 출판
2015-05-29
MeSH
Adult · Ambulatory Care Facilities* · Attention* · Clinical Competence* · Emotions* · Female · Humans · Male · Physicians / psychology · Prospective Studies · Psychometrics / methods · Psychomotor Performance* · Workload*