Abstract
With the increasing burden of professional burnout in physicians, attention is being paid to optimizing sleep health, starting in training. The multiple dimensions of physicians' sleep are not well described due to obstacles to easily and reliably measuring sleep. This pilot study tested the feasibility of using commercial wearable devices and completing manual sleep logs to describe sleep patterns of medical students and residents. Prospective pilot study of 50 resident physicians and medical students during a single year of training. Participants completed a manual sleep log while concurrently wearing the Fitbit Inspire device for 14-consecutive days over three clinical rotations of varying work schedules: light, medium, and heavy clinical rotations. Study completion was achieved in 24/50 (48%) participants. Overall correlation coefficients between the sleep log and Fitbit were statistically low; however, the discrepancies were acceptable, i.e., Fitbit underestimated time in bed and total sleep time by 4.3 and 2.7 minutes, respectively. Sleep onset time and waketime were within 8 minutes, with good agreement. Treatment of sleep episodes during the day led to variance in the data. Average missingness of collected data did not vary between medical students or residents or by rotation type. When comparing the light to heavy rotations, hours slept went from 7.7 (±0.64) to 6.7 (±0.88), quality-of-life and sleep health decreased and stress, burnout, and medical errors increased. Burnout was significantly associated with worse sleep health, hours worked, and quality-of-life. Prospective data collection of sleep patterns using both sleep logs and commercial wearable devices is burdensome for physicians-in-training. Using commercial wearable devices may increase study success as long as attention is paid to daytime sleep. In future studies investigating the sleep of physicians, the timing of data collection should account for rotation type.
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