Clinical trial NCT05583435: Decreasing Physician Burnout With Professional Coaching
Official title: Decreasing Physician Burnout With Professional Coaching
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Burnout, Professional
Keywords: physician burnout
coaching
work engagement
Lead sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-10-17
Enrollment: 79
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The goal of this randomized control trial is to learn if professional coaching can help reduce physician burnout among physicians at UCLA. The main aims of the study are:

* To reduce burnout among physicians with professional coaching
* Improve work satisfaction and engagement, sense of self-efficacy and social support with professional coaching
* Determine the efficacy of one-on-one professional coaching and small group professional coaching combined with behavioral interventions/activities in reducing physician burnout and comparing these groups to one another and to a delayed-entry (control) group

Participants will be randomly assigned into one of three groups:

* Intervention Group 1: One-on-one coaching (N=30). Six one-on-one coaching sessions via Zoom with one of two private professional coaches every other week for 3-4 months.
* Intervention Group 2: Coach-facilitated group sessions and coach-guided activities/behavioral interventions (N=30). Six small-group coaching sessions via Zoom with one of two private professional coaches and three physician participants in each group, every other week for 3-4 months.
* Delayed-Entry Group 3 (N=30): No intervention during duration of study period. Note: once participation in the pilot study has been completed for Groups 1 and 2, physicians participating in Group 3 will be offered to participate in six one-on-one sessions with a private professional coach over a 3-4 month period.

Participants will complete several surveys that assess for burnout, work engagement and satisfaction, sense of social support and isolation, and areas of worklife) before the start, upon completion of the intervention and again at 6 months upon completion of the sessions for the delayed-entry group.

Each group also received coach-guided activities/behavioral interventions during coaching sessions. These activities will be sent by coaches to participates throughout the 3 month period and include, but are not limited to: Wheel of Life, visioning exercise, one page miracle: core values, purpose, and goals, buckets and mental models.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Actively practicing UCLA department of medicine physicians who had at least two years of employment at UCLA

Exclusion Criteria:

* Current or anticipated (in the next 6 months) participation in one-on-one or group coaching provided by a professional coach

Primary outcomes:
measure: Burnout
timeFrame: 90 days
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Areas of Worklife
timeFrame: 90 days
measure: Self-efficacy
timeFrame: 90 days
measure: Work Engagmement and Satisfaction
timeFrame: 90 days
measure: Social Support
timeFrame: 90 days
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Los Angeles
country: United States
facility: University of California, Los Angeles
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles
name: Joshua Khalili, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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