Clinical trial NCT06145425: Testing an Evidence-Based Program for Clinician Burnout
Official title: Testing an Evidence-Based Program for Physician and Nurse Burnout
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Burnout
Keywords: Burnout
Mindfulness
Physicians
Nurses
Resident Physicians
Lead sponsor: Brown University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Peter G. Peterson Foundation
First posted: 2023-11-24
Enrollment: 106
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: 3 single groups: physicians, resident physicians and nurses
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The goal of this clinical trial is to pilot test an app-based mindfulness training program in reducing burnout in physicians and nurses.

Detailed description: The main question\[s\] it aims to answer are:

PRIMARY AIM: Determine if the app-based training reduces the level of cynicism (i.e., one of the two main dimensions of burnout).

SECONDARY AIM: Determine if the app-based training reduces the level of emotional exhaustion (i.e. one of the two main dimensions of burnout), anxiety, worry, depression and intolerance of uncertainty. Determine if the app-based training increases self-compassion, non-reactivity and non-judging about inner experiences.

Participants will be asked to:

* Use an app-based mindfulness training program
* Complete online surveys at baseline, immediately post-intervention and 1 month after the post-intervention as follow up

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Being a physician, resident physician or nurse
* Able to speak English because all study activities will be conducted in English.
* 18+ years
* direct patient care

Exclusion Criteria:

* If using psychotropic medication - not on a stable dosage at least 6 weeks

Primary outcomes:
measure: Changes in cynicism
timeFrame: collected at baseline, immediately post-intervention and one month later as follow up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The dimension of emotional exhaustion in the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI).
timeFrame: collected at baseline, immediately post-intervention and one month later as follow up
measure: Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-items (GAD-7).
timeFrame: collected at baseline, immediately post-intervention and one month later as follow up
measure: Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) non-reactivity scale.
timeFrame: collected at baseline, immediately post-intervention and one month later as follow up
measure: Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) non-judging scale.
timeFrame: collected at baseline, immediately post-intervention and one month later as follow up
measure: Patient Health Questionnaire 2-item scale (PHQ-2).
timeFrame: collected at baseline, immediately post-intervention and one month later as follow up
measure: Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ).
timeFrame: collected at baseline, immediately post-intervention and one month later as follow up
measure: Intolerance of Uncertainty 12-item scale (IUS-12).
timeFrame: collected at baseline, immediately post-intervention and one month later as follow up
measure: Self-Compassion Scale - Short Form (SCS-SF).
timeFrame: collected at baseline, immediately post-intervention and one month later as follow up
Other outcomes:
measure: Demographics.
timeFrame: collected at baseline
Locations:
city: Providence
country: United States
facility: Brown University
state: Rhode Island
Study officials:
affiliation: Brown University
name: Judson Brewer, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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