Fostering Resilience in Physician Moms

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Physicians in general are at risk for burnout, and this risk is heightened among women, particularly mothers. In a randomized design, central hypotheses in this study are that mothers who attend our 12-week Relational Psychotherapy Mothers Group (RPMG) intervention will show significantly greater decreases in stress, depression, burnout, and associated risk biomarker indices, as compared to comparison controls (who would meet in unstructured gatherings, for an hour a week for 12 weeks). Additionally the investigators hypothesize that the gains would be maintained three months after the intervention is completed.

Official Title
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Fostering Resilience: An Intervention for Women Physicians at Risk for Burnout

Conditions
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Stress, Psychological

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Manualized Therapy
* Behavioral: Control Group


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion of Women and Minorities: This study will be restricted to women physician mothers, who are the target of the manualized RPMG program. The study will not use race or ethnicity as a basis for selecting subjects. Inclusion of Children: This study does not include children. Exclusion criteria Participation in this study is open to all Mayo physician mothers with a child under the age of 18 years. As in past RPMG trials, the only exclusion criteria are if mothers were to indicate active suicidality, or meet criteria for psychoses, during initial assessments or during participation in this study.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 25 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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Female

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Prevention
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Group therapy<br>12 week manualized group therapy (one hour per week) | Behavioral: Manualized Therapy<br>* Relational psychotherapy mothers<br>|
| Other: Control Group<br>Participants get one hour of time away from patient care/duties to do as they wish. | Behavioral: Control Group<br>* one hour of free time to do with as they wish<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| level of depression | Beck Depression Inventory | Baseline to 3 months | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| biomarker of stress | C-reactive protein | Baseline to 3 months | 
| biomarker of stress | nerve-growth factor | Baseline to 3 months | 
| Professional functioning | The Maslach Burnout Inventory | Baseline to 3 months | 
| perceived social support | Quality of Social Support Scale | Baseline to 3 months | 
| Parenting stress | Parenting Stress Inventory | Baseline to 3 months | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Resilience