Clinical trial NCT04125615: Resident Physician Burnout and Well-being
Official title: Resident Physician Burnout and Well-being: One Intervention and Its Impact
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Stress
Lead sponsor: University of Minnesota
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-10-14
Enrollment: 19
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Pilot study shows that two hours of weekly protected non-clinical time is associated with decreased burnout and increased well-being in otolaryngology residents

Detailed description: Burnout amongst physicians is high with resulting concern over quality of care. With burnout beginning early in training, much-needed data is lacking on interventions to decrease burnout and improve well-being amongst resident physicians. The primary objective was to design and evaluate the impact of a departmental-level burnout intervention for otolaryngology residents. The secondary objective was to describe how residents utilized and perceived the study intervention.

All current residents in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Minnesota were solicited for participation. Inclusion criteria included all residents willing to complete the study protocol. Exclusion criteria included the principal investigator. All 19 eligible residents consented to participate. All participants were assigned two hours of weekly, protected non-clinical time alternating with a control period of no intervention at 6 week intervals.

Burnout was measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and Mini-Z Questionnaire (Mini-Z). Well-being was measured by the Resident and Fellow Well-Being Index (WBI) and a quality-of-life (QOL) single-item self-assessment (SA). In addition to baseline demographic survey, participants completed the aforementioned surveys at approximately 6-week intervals from October 2017 to July 2018.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

- all resident physicians (PGY1 - PGY5) in the Department of Otolaryngology that were willing to complete the study protocol

Exclusion Criteria:

- principal investigator(s) were excluded from participation

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Emotional Exhaustion (EE) Subscale
timeFrame: baseline, end of intervention (32 weeks)
measure: Change in Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Depersonalization (DP) Subscale
timeFrame: baseline, end of intervention (32 weeks)
measure: Change in Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Personal Achievement (PA) Subscale
timeFrame: baseline, end of intervention (32 weeks)
measure: Change in Mini-Z Questionnaire (Mini-Z) Question 3
timeFrame: baseline, end of intervention (32 weeks)
measure: Change in Resident and Fellow Well-Being Index (WBI)
timeFrame: baseline, end of intervention (32 weeks)
measure: Change in Quality-of-Life (QOL) Single-Item Self-Assessment (SA)
timeFrame: baseline, end of intervention (32 weeks)
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Minneapolis
country: United States
facility: University of Minnesota
state: Minnesota
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Minenesota
name: Kristin Stevens, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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