Mindfulness for Medical Students
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Mindfulness
- Sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Enrollment
- 24
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 7 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Burnout is common among medical students. Previous studies had shown that mindfulness based interventions may improve burnout and quality of life in medical students. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is one of the most often used mindfulness based interventions.
Medical students in the Chinese University of Hong Kong are invited to a MBCT on voluntary basis. They will be asked to fill in questionnaire that measures burnout, depression/anxiety, quality of life, and mindfulness at beginning and end of the MBCT. The pre-group and post-group data will be compared and analysed
Investigators
Lee Kam Pui
Clinical assistant professor
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Medical students studying in Chinese University of Hong Kong
Exclusion Criteria
- •The investigators did not set any exclusion criteria
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)
Time Frame: 8 weeks (before and after MBCT; after 8 weekly sessions)
The validated Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is a 22-item questionnaire that assesses three aspects of professional burnout syndrome which includes emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal accomplishment. It is widely used in research and has been widely used in studies about medical student well-being. In the scale, burnout is conceptualized as a continuous construct and participant is asked to rate their job related feelings using a 7-point Likert scale ranging from "never" to "everyday". A high degree of burnout is defined as a respondent who scores low on the Personal Accomplishment subscale but high in the Emotional Exhaustion and Depersonalization subscales of the instrument
Secondary Outcomes
- Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)(8 weeks (before and after MBCT; after 8 weekly sessions))
- the World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment (WHOQOL-BREF)(8 weeks (before and after MBCT; after 8 weekly sessions))
- 21-item Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21)(8 weeks (before and after MBCT; after 8 weekly sessions))