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Table 3 Psycho-cognitive and subjective emotional excitation assessment

From: Evaluation of emotional excitation during standardized endotracheal intubation in simulated conditions

 

Overall

Senior

Junior

Neutral

Stress

p

Neutral

Stress

p

Neutral

Stress

p

Global mental workload

38.8 ± 18

63.5 ± 15.1

< 0.0001

38.5 ± 19.7

65 ± 16.6

0.002

39.2 ± 15.7

61.3 ± 12.9

0.015

 Mental workload

9.2 ± 8.3

8.5 ± 9.4

0.922

8.8 ± 9.4

7.6 ± 9.4

0.78

9.9 ± 6.6

9.8 ± 9.8

0.678

 Physical workload

3.1 ± 4.2

6.1 ± 5.5

0.023

3.3 ± 4.2

5.8 ± 5.6

0.133

2.7 ± 4.2

6.7 ± 5.7

0.069

 Temporal workload

11.2 ± 8.2

15.7 ± 7.5

0.005

10.2 ± 8.2

15.5 ± 7.8

0.036

12.8 ± 8.3

16 ± 7.4

0.038

 Performance

7.5 ± 6.7

11.8 ± 8.2

0.089

7.5 ± 7.6

14 ± 8

0.041

7.4 ± 5.1

8.3 ± 7.6

0.674

 Effort

5.5 ± 3.4

11.5 ± 7

0.0003

5.9 ± 3.9

10.8 ± 6.5

0.003

4.8 ± 2.4

12.6 ± 8

0.036

 Frustration

2.4 ± 4.6

10 ± 9.6

0.003

2.9 ± 5.5

11.4 ± 9.8

0.013

1.5 ± 2.3

7.9 ± 9.4

0.068

Stress measurement

 Likert scale

2.4 ± 1.7

5.3 ± 2.5

0.00002

2.3 ± 1.9

5 ± 2.8

0.009

2.6 ± 1.6

5.8 ± 2.2

0.007

 Stress mean

22.3 ± 18.2

45 ± 22.1

0.000036

20.2 ± 17.3

44.4 ± 22.3

0.001

25.8 ± 20

45.8 ± 22.9

0.009

 Stress max

38.7 ± 24.6

67.7 ± 26

0.000033

35.8 ± 25.8

66.8 ± 26.1

0.001

43.2 ± 23

69.3 ± 27.4

0.009

  1. In NASA-TLX assessment, each dimension could be analyzed as follows: mental workload: mental and perceptual activity required during task. Physical workload: physical (muscle) activity required. Temporal workload: time pressure felt during task. Performance: feeling of success. It is important to indicate that the performance scale is inversed. The higher the performance dimension, the lower the feeling of performance. Effort: global difficulty (physically and mentally) to accomplish the task. Frustration: level of irritation stress and frustration. The first three dimensions (mental workload, physical and temporal demands) are related to constraints imposed on the subject by the task; the subsequent three other dimensions are related to interactions of the subject with the task. Stress level was assessed according a Likert scale from 1 to 10, and by a video recording auto-evaluation scale from 1—minimum—to 100—maximum
  2. Significant p values are highlighted in italics