Clinical trial NCT04462484: Online Self-care Training Program (MAGO Study)
Official title: Study Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Self-Care Training Programme to Reduce Burnout and Promote Work Engagement in Clinical Psychologists: MAGO Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Occupational Burnout
Keywords: burnout
self-care
online program
telepsychology
Lead sponsor: University of Padova
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University of Chile
First posted: 2020-07-08
Enrollment: 74
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: MAGO is a parallel, two-armed randomized controlled trial with three assessment points (baseline, post-intervention, and six-month follow-up). Participants will be randomized for the program or a no-treatment group.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study aims to determine the efficacy of MAGO (Online Self-care Training Program for Psychologists), a person-directed, individual, occupational intervention via videoconference in six sessions on a weekly basis. By promoting self-care behaviors, it is expected to reduce burnout levels and to increase work engagement in clinical psychologists working in Chile.

Detailed description: Clinical psychologists are susceptible to develop burnout as a result of facing consistently emotionally taxing job demands and a high requirement for empathy. Implementing self-care behaviors can help to prevent negative consequences of work stress and the promotion of positive outcomes such as optimal professional functioning and enhanced well-being in psychologists.

The intervention is a person-directed, individual, primary occupational intervention. It will be carried out via videoconference in six weekly sessions of 45 minutes. MAGO is a program derived from Self-care Assessment for Psychology (SCAP). From a preventive perspective on self-care, items represent strategies or behaviors that may be integrated into one's professional and personal life on a more ongoing and proactive basis to promote well-functioning.

Chile has presented a slow but progressive development of e-mental health research, and Internet-based interventions are at an early stage of development in this country. Using videoconference and web-delivered questionnaires are crucial in reaching psychologists considering problems such as long distances of transportation and a tiny budget for mental health. Nevertheless, Chile scores 52 in the Global Connectivity Index, while digital technologies are highly utilized across all social strata.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Chilean psychologists
* Currently working in the public sector in Chile
* Available to attend to six online sessions
* Willing to voluntarily participate

Exclusion Criteria:

* Subjects participating in psychotherapy as clients
* High scores for depression or anxiety

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline occupational burnout
timeFrame: 8 weeks and 6 months.
measure: Change from baseline work engagement
timeFrame: 8 weeks and 6 months.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline self-care behaviors
timeFrame: 8 weeks and 6 months.
measure: Change from baseline general health
timeFrame: 8 weeks and 6 months.
measure: Change from baseline perceived social support
timeFrame: Baseline, 8 weeks, 6 months.
measure: Change from baseline depression symptoms
timeFrame: 8 weeks and 6 months.
measure: Change from baseline anxiety symptoms
timeFrame: 8 weeks and 6 months.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Santiago de Chile
country: Chile
facility: Universidad de Chile
state: RM
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Padova
name: Sabrina Cipolletta, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: University of Padova
name: Caterina Novara, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References:
citation: Dorociak KE, Rupert PA, Bryant FB, Zahniser E. Development of the Professional Self-Care Scale. J Couns Psychol. 2017 Apr;64(3):325-334. doi: 10.1037/cou0000206. Epub 2017 Mar 9.