Clinical trial NCT06734767: The Effect of an MBSR Course on Medical Trainee and Medical Academic Faculty Stress and Burnout
Official title: The Effect of an MBSR Course on Medical Trainee and Medical Academic Faculty Stress and Burnout
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
Phase: NA
Conditions: Burnout
Keywords: Burnout
MBSR
mindfulness
physician well-being
Lead sponsor: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-12-16
Enrollment: 200
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Medical practitioners who choose to register for a free mindfulness course are evaluated for improvements in their ability to manage stress and mitigate burnout.
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: The study team is seeking to evaluate the efficacy of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course at reducing stress and burnout. This will be done through the collection of brief anonymous online surveys (the Perceived Stress Scale and the Mini Z) before the MBSR course and at 2 weeks, 6 months, and 12 months following the end of the course. Participation is completely voluntary and will not affect anyone's ability to take this course, and the course instructors will have no knowledge of who has or has not participated in the study.

Detailed description: The study is a pre- and post- survey design with the 8-week MBSR course as the intervention. MBSR is an evidence-based curriculum with a greater than 40-year history, that has been taught at Mount Sinai since 2018. Study participants will be those who have voluntarily signed up to take the course in response to an email describing the course that was sent by the office of the Mount Sinai Graduate Medical Education (GME). The study participants will be separated into two groups: faculty and trainees, and the study will span approximately two weeks prior to the start of the course (9/13/2023) (the "pre-" period) and six months after the completion of the course 5/31/2024) (the "post-" period). The course will be delivered by Zoom, but the participants will be joining from all Mount Sinai locations. The MBSR course itself involves didactics (i.e., stress physiology, review of mindfulness research, mindful communication practices), group discussions based on individual experiences with the mindful practices taught in the course, and the teaching of meditation practices including sitting and moving meditation practices. Home practices are offered as guidance each week but are not required. There is no planned control group at this time.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

- A physician in The Mount Sinai Hospital System

Exclusion Criteria:

- none

Primary outcomes:
measure: Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
timeFrame: Baseline and at 2 weeks, 6 months, and 12 months following the end of the course (course is 8 weeks)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The "Mini Z" survey
timeFrame: Baseline and at 2 weeks, 6 months, and 12 months following the end of the course (course is 8 weeks)
measure: Burnout questions
timeFrame: Baseline and at 2 weeks, 6 months, and 12 months following the end of the course (course is 8 weeks)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New York
country: United States
facility: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
name: Jeffrey Zahn, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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