Mindfulness Practices for Healthcare Professional Trainees
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Stress
- Sponsor
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Enrollment
- 57
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in burnout
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 6 years ago
Overview
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.
Investigators
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
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in burnout
Time Frame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
Assessed using Maslach Burnout Inventory a 22 item screening tool with higher values indicating more burnout
Change in depressive symptoms
Time Frame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
Assessed using Patient Health Questionnaire 9. 9-items with lower values indicating less depression
Change in state anxiety
Time Frame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
Assessed using State Trait Anxiety Inventory -- a 20 item measure with some items reverse scored and higher scored indicating higher state anxiety
Change in ruminative thinking
Time Frame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
Assessed using Rumination Response Scale -- a 10 item measure with higher scores indicating higher rumination
Change in stress
Time Frame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
Assessed using Perceived Stress Scale -- a 14-item scale with higher scores indicating higher levels of stress
Change in dispositional mindfulness
Time Frame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
Assessed using Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire -- a 39-item measure of 5 domains of mindfulness in daily life, with higher scores indicating higher levels of mindfulness
Change in cognitive functioning
Time Frame: administered at baseline and post-intervention (8 weeks)
Assessed using Trail Making Test A \& B -- a brief task requiring respondents to connect numbered dots and then switch between number and letters, speed and accuracy are both recorded
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in interprofessional attitudes measure(administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up)
- Follow-up Interview of Perceptions of Mindfulness and Interprofessional Education(assessed at 3-month post-intervention follow-up)