Mindfulness Practices for Healthcare Professional Trainees

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Stress
• Interventions: Behavioral: Mindfulness Based Practices for Health Care Professionals in Training

• Registration Number: NCT03403335
• Lead Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University

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.

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2018-01-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-01-11
• Study First Posted: 2018-01-18
• Study Start: 2018-02-09
• Primary Completion: 2018-12-31
• Study Completion: 2019-04-28
• Status Verified: 2019-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-05-31
• Last Update Posted: 2019-06-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 57

Inclusion Criteria

• Students/faculty from any health care department at VCU

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Exclusion Criteria

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

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Mindfulness Based Practices for Health Care Professionals	Mindfulness Based Practices for Health Care Professionals in Training	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in stress	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 burnout	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	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	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	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 dispositional mindfulness	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	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 Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in interprofessional attitudes measure	administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up	Assessed using Interprofessional Team Training Assessment -- a 22-item measure and Student Perceptions of Physician-Pharmacist Interprofessional Clinical Education -- a 10-item measure; both with higher scores indicating more positive attitudes toward interprofessional training
Follow-up Interview of Perceptions of Mindfulness and Interprofessional Education	assessed at 3-month post-intervention follow-up	qualitative interview and exploration -- participants will spend approximately 30 minute by phone being interviewed on their experiences with the intervention especially in the context of healthcare and interprofessional education

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Virginia Commonwealth University; 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States