Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) for Family Medicine Residents at Eglin AFB

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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This research seeks to identify if the practice of the SMART program mindfulness decreases stress and increase resilience in family medicine residents.

Detailed Description
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This research seeks to identify if the practice of the SMART program mindfulness decreases stress and increase resilience in family medicine residents.

Official Title
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Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) for Family Medicine Residents at Eglin AFB

Conditions
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Stress, Quality of Life

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: SMART


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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**Patients must be able to get care at Eglin Air Force Base (a military installation) in order to participate in this study** Inclusion Criteria: Male and female active duty military family medicine residents Age 18 or older Amenable to participation in training and filling out questionnaires Exclusion Criteria: Unwilling to participate

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: SMART<br> | Behavioral: SMART<br>* SMART program mindfulness training program<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Change in Mindful Attention Awareness Scale | Dispositional mindfulness, i.e. open or receptive awareness of and attention to what is taking place in the present. To score the scale, compute a mean of the 15 questions. Higher scores reflect higher levels of dispositional mindfulness. | baseline, 12 weeks, 12 months | 
| Change in Perceived Stress Scale | The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is a measure of the degree to which situations in one's life are appraised as stressful. Items were designed to tap how unpredictable, uncontrollable, and overloaded respondents find their lives. The scale also includes a number of direct queries about current levels of experienced stress. The PSS was designed for use in community samples with at least a junior high school education. The items are easy to understand, and the response alternatives are simple to grasp. Moreover, the questions are of a general nature and hence are relatively free of content specific to any subpopulation group. The questions in the PSS ask about feelings and thoughts during the last month. In each case, respondents are asked how often they felt a certain way. High scores indicate higher perceived stress. | baseline, 12 weeks, 12 months | 
| Change in Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale 10 (CD-RISC-10) | Measure of stress coping ability. 10 questions with the option of 0 through 4, where 0 is not true at all and 4 is true nearly all the time. Scores are added up to obtain CD-RISC score. | baseline, 12 weeks, 12 months |