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Area of Science:

  • Sports and exercise psychology
  • Medical education
  • Team performance analysis

Background:

  • Stress responses, specifically challenge and threat appraisals, are crucial in high-stakes environments.
  • Understanding these responses in medical teams can optimize training and performance.
  • Medical simulation competitions offer a unique setting to study team dynamics under pressure.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between challenge/threat responses and performance in a medical simulation competition.
  • To explore the influence of team characteristics (training time, experience) on these responses.
  • To model how perceived demands and resources affect team performance.

Main Methods:

  • Cross-sectional study during the SIMCUP Italia 2018 national medical simulation competition.
  • 95 participants across 24 teams completed self-report measures on demands, resources, anxiety, confidence, and team identification.
  • Performance was assessed by referee scores; data analyzed using a linear mixed model.

Main Results:

  • Both demands and resources positively influenced performance, but a negative interaction was observed.
  • High resources buffered performance until demands became excessively high.
  • Cognitive and somatic anxiety correlated with higher demands; team training time correlated with higher resources.

Conclusions:

  • A model was developed to estimate performance based on perceived demands, resources, and their interaction.
  • Optimal team performance is associated with higher perceived resources and lower perceived demands.
  • This highlights the importance of resource management and demand appraisal in medical team training.