Clinical trial NCT02963792: Burnout Preventions, Professionalism Heightening, and Enhancing Resiliency (BUPHER)
Official title: Values and Virtues in Medical Practice: Quasi-Experimental Intervention for Burnout Preventions, Professionalism Heightening, and Enhancing Resiliency (BUPHER) in a Hospital Surgical Division
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Professional-Patient Relations
Burnout, Professional
Keywords: Professionalism
Burnout prevention
Resiliency
Student education
Lead sponsor: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Sponsor class: OTHER_GOV
Collaborators: name: Association for Children at Risk
name: Tel Aviv University
First posted: 2016-11-15
Enrollment: 1000
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: Due to their difficult and stressful work surgeons are under continuous physical and mental stress exposing them to increased risk for burnout and lack of professionalism. The present intervention focuses on providing time and a safe space to debrief and explore personal and group experiences and dilemmas, as well as acquire coping skills related to burnout, communication and professionalism.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* All physicians (residents and experts) of the Surgical Division at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
* All medical students studying at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, and attending a surgery round at the Surgical Division at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
* Patients (and/or family members) in the Surgical Division at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center following their surgery.

Exclusion Criteria:

* The research will not include children and/or judgment-impaired patients;
* population not met by inclusion criteria;
* non-Hebrew speaking patients;
* ventilated patients;
* patients in surgical intensive care;
* patients medically defined as suffering from clouding of conscious or delirium;
* subjects who decided to stop their participation in the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Professionalism Culture Scale
timeFrame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
measure: Abbreviated Burnout Scale
timeFrame: Change (decrease) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Adapted Professionalism Mini-Evaluation Scale Exercise scale
timeFrame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
measure: Cynicism in Medicine Questionnaire (CMQ)
timeFrame: Change (decrease) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
measure: Moral & Cognitive Courage Scale
timeFrame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
measure: Jefferson Health Professionals Empathy Scale
timeFrame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
measure: The Areas of Work life Scale (AWS)
timeFrame: Change (increase in balance) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
measure: Professionals Self Care Practices questionnaire
timeFrame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
measure: Life satisfaction questionnaire
timeFrame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
measure: Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
timeFrame: Change (decrease) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
measure: Work-Life Balance
timeFrame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
measure: Resilient Coping Questionnaire (RCQ)
timeFrame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
measure: Specific Life Satisfaction Questionnaire
timeFrame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
measure: Brief Resilience Scale (BRS)
timeFrame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
measure: Patient Satisfaction questionnaire
timeFrame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
measure: Physician Transcendence Scale (PTS)
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Demographic information questions
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Life Events Scale
timeFrame: Baseline
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