Clinical trial NCT03403335: Mindfulness Practices for Healthcare Professional Trainees
Official title: Mindfulness Practices for Healthcare Professional Trainees
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Stress
Lead sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: American Psychological Association (APA)
First posted: 2018-01-18
Enrollment: 57
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: A newly developed intervention, Mindfulness Based Practices for Health Care Professionals in Training: Clinical Applications, will be piloted to determine the feasibility and accessibility within this population. The purpose of the proposed study is to assess the change in perceived stress at work/school and psychological symptomology; i.e., depression, stress, emotion regulation, and dispositional mindfulness, from pre to post intervention in health care professional students and when compared to a matched control group.

Detailed description: The proposed study aims to investigate an 8-week intervention: Mindfulness Based Practices for Health Care Professionals in Training: Clinical Applications. During the intervention, participants will engage in didactic education, experiential mindfulness practices, including gentle yoga, and group dialogue. The aim of the study is to investigate the feasibility of this intervention in producing measurable differences between the participants and matched controls on their perception of their well-being and clinical work.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Students/faculty from any health care department at VCU

Exclusion Criteria:

* Anyone who is not a student/faculty from a health care department at VCU

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in burnout
timeFrame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
measure: Change in depressive symptoms
timeFrame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
measure: Change in state anxiety
timeFrame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
measure: Change in ruminative thinking
timeFrame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
measure: Change in stress
timeFrame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
measure: Change in dispositional mindfulness
timeFrame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
measure: Change in cognitive functioning
timeFrame: administered at baseline and post-intervention (8 weeks)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in interprofessional attitudes measure
timeFrame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
measure: Follow-up Interview of Perceptions of Mindfulness and Interprofessional Education
timeFrame: assessed at 3-month post-intervention follow-up
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Richmond
country: United States
facility: Virginia Commonwealth University
state: Virginia
Study officials:
affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University
name: Bruce Rybarczyk, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Braun SE, Mladen SN, Luberto CM, Kinser PA. Maintenance of Effects and Correlates of Changes Following Mindfulness for Interdisciplinary Health Care Professional Students. Integr Med Rep. 2022 Sep 1;1(1):177-185. doi: 10.1089/imr.2021.0012. Epub 2022 Sep 7.