Clinical trial NCT05194410: The Effect of Community Building Through Virtual, Team-Based Exercise on Burnout
Official title: The MedMotion Trial on Community Building Through Virtual, Team-Based Exercise and Affects on Physician and Trainee Burnout: A Randomized, Controlled, Multi-Center Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Burnout, Professional
Burnout, Student
Community Building
Mentorship
Exercise
Keywords: Burnout, Professional
Burnout, Student
Community Building
Mentorship
Exercise
Lead sponsor: Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Massachusetts General Hospital
First posted: 2022-01-18
Enrollment: 422
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study is a randomized controlled trial that will look at whether virtual, team-based exercise improves burnout, sense of community, and mentorship connections among medical students, residents, fellows, and physicians.

Detailed description: Participants will be randomized to either a control group or an intervention group. The intervention group will be further randomized onto teams that will exercise for 3 months. All exercise (including walking, biking, lifting, yoga, and 40+ exercises) will be tracked via user's smartwatches (ie Apple, Garmin), smartphone fitness apps (ie MapMyRun), or manual upload, converted into Metabolic Equivalent of a Task (MET) minutes, and displayed on online leaderboards. Group activities will be encouraged by awarding raffle tickets for prizes to those who submit pictures with their teammates. Primary outcomes will be burnout, sense of community, and mentorship connections, with the hypothesis that getting everyone together for this team-based exercise will improve these metrics. After 3 months, both the control and intervention group will be enrolled in 3 months of the intervention to assess secondary outcomes: long-term burnout, sense of community, and mentorship connections, as well as adherence.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Harvard Medical Students (HMS)
* Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Residents, Fellows, or Attendings

Exclusion Criteria:

* Non HMS Students or MGH Residents, Fellows, or Attendings

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline Burnout at 3 months
timeFrame: 0 and 3 months
measure: Change from Baseline Burnout at 6 months
timeFrame: 0 and 6 months
measure: Change in Burnout from 3 to 6 months
timeFrame: 3 and 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Sense of Community at 3 months
timeFrame: 0 and 3 months
measure: Change from Baseline Sense of Community at 6 months
timeFrame: 0 and 6 months
measure: Change in Sense of Community from 3 to 6 months
timeFrame: 3 and 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Mentorship Connections at 3 months
timeFrame: 0 and 3 months
measure: Change from Baseline Mentorship Connections at 6 months
timeFrame: 0 and 6 months
measure: Change in Mentorship Connections from 3 to 6 months
timeFrame: 3 and 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Burnout (Mayo) at 3 months
timeFrame: 0 and 3 months
measure: Change from Baseline Burnout (Mayo) at 6 months
timeFrame: 0 and 6 months
measure: Change in Burnout (Mayo) from 3 to 6 months
timeFrame: 3 and 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Engagement in First Half of Study
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Engagement in Second Half of Study
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Change in Baseline Exercise at 3 months
timeFrame: 0 and 3 months
measure: Change in Baseline Exercise at 6 months
timeFrame: 0 and 6 months
measure: Change in Exercise from 3 to 6 months
timeFrame: 3 and 6 months
measure: Change in Baseline Comfortability at work at 3 months
timeFrame: 0 and 3 months
measure: Change in Baseline Comfortability at work at 6 months
timeFrame: 0 and 6 months
measure: Change in Comfortability at work from 3 to 6 months
timeFrame: 3 and 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: Harvard Medical School
state: Massachusetts
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: Massachusetts General Hospital
state: Massachusetts
Study officials:
affiliation: Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)
name: Logan Briggs, BA
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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