Emergency Medicine (EM) requires 24/7 staff coverage resulting in healthcare workers' circadian rhythm disruptions that impair clinical and cognitive performance, physical recovery, and contribute to burnout. Multiple well-being surveys continue to highlight EM's challenges with sleep impairment due to the nature of the specialty. Despite evidence that lifestyle strategies effectively optimize performance and recovery, EM residents have variable lifestyle choices to prepare for overnight shifts. This prospective randomized controlled trial will examine whether a pre-shift personalized fatigue-mitigation lifestyle coaching (PFMLC) for EM residents on overnight shifts minimizes the effects of circadian rhythm disruptions on performance and recovery compared to those who receive one-time passive information on lifestyle practices. All participants will receive lifestyle strategy materials on fatigue mitigation to improve performance. Residents' self-reported and biometric data will inform PFMLC in the active arm. Performance and recovery from night shifts will be assessed by changes in sleep, heart rate variability, readiness/recovery, alertness, cognitive performance, and mental health using Fitbit and validated measures.
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Mean of the change in 3 overnight percentage changes (from pre-shift) in mean reaction time
Timeframe: Two time points (beginning and middle of night shifts) on each night for a total of 3 nights]
Mean of the change in 3 overnight percentage changes (from pre-shift) in number of lapses in PVT
Timeframe: Two time points (beginning and middle of night shifts) on each night for a total of 3 nights]
Mean of the change in 3 overnight percentage changes (from pre-shift) in aggregrate PVT score
Timeframe: Two time points (beginning and middle of night shifts) on each night for a total of 3 nights]
Mean of the change in 3 overnight percentage changes (from pre-shift) in Stanford Sleepiness Scale
Timeframe: Two time points (beginning and middle of night shifts) on each night for a total of 3 nights]
Mean of the change 3 overnight percentage changes (from pre-shift) in Noordsy-Dahle Subjective Experience Scale (NDSE) Modified version of Noordsy-Dahle Subjective Experience Scale (NDSE) for healthy adults includes 8 sub-domains:
Timeframe: Two time points (beginning and middle of night shifts) on each night for a total of 3 nights]