Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Metro Nashville Public School Employees
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 37
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Feasibility - Recruitment
研究概览
简要总结
Stress, anxiety, and depression are common symptoms among public school teachers. Public school teachers are among the top professions reporting stress, anxiety, and depression. The causes are multifactorial and include work-related demands, challenges with students, limited resources, and compassion fatigue. Because of this, teachers are at risk of burnout and leaving or changing their profession. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on teachers due to disruptions in usual education delivery and ability to support students. Recent reports show poorer mental health and decreases in physical activity in teachers since the onset of the pandemic. Effective and implementable strategies are urgently needed to address poor mental health and to foster positive health characteristics in this population.
Mindfulness programs decrease feelings of stress, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion. Additionally, mindfulness can improve self-compassion, which may be an important mediating factor in a teacher population. Prior work has shown an inverse relationship between self-compassion and burnout. Currently, there are few studies investigating whether building self-compassion can reduce burnout in public school teachers. The investigators will explore therelationship between participation in a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course and changes in burnout, self-compassion, and other whole person health measures in an educator population. The overall objective of this open pilot study is to examine the feasibility and acceptability of an 8-week remote, group-based MBSR program delivered over Zoom for Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) personnel reporting elevated stress, anxiety, and/or depressive symptoms. Our pilot study results will contribute to the evidence on MBSR in a public-school employee population and inform strategies to optimize implementation of our remote MBSR program within the Vanderbilt Health at MNPS system.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Working certificated Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) employees who self-report stress, anxiety, and/or depressive symptoms
排除标准
- •Unable to commit to the weekly MBSR schedule
- •Have taken the MBSR course previously
- •Participants who do not have reliable home internet
结局指标
主要结局
Feasibility - Recruitment
时间窗: Baseline
Feasibility of recruitment will be assessed as the number of inviduals who are screened, eligible and enrolled in the study.
Feasibility- enrollment retention
时间窗: Baseline to 12 weeks after enrollment
Retention will be the number and proportion of indviduals who complete patient reported outcome data collection at 12-weeks.
Acceptability - Overall Helpfulness of the course
时间窗: Baseline to 8 weeks
Helpfulness of the course assessed by a one question survey with an 11-point Numeric Rating Scale ranging from 0 ("Not helpful") to 10 ("Most helpful"). Lower scores indicate less helpfulness.
Feasibility- class attendance
时间窗: Baseline to program completion (8 weeks)
Percentage of participants that attend each scheduled session and who complete the program.
次要结局
- Perceived stress as measured by a Perceived Stress Scale(Baseline, 8 weeks and 12 weeks)
- Anxiety as measured by the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Anxiety short form(Baseline, 8 weeks and 12 weeks)
- Depression as measured by the PROMIS Depression short form(Baseline, 8 and 12 weeks after enrollment.)
- Self-compassion as measured by the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS)(Baseline, 8 and 12 weeks after enrollment.)
- Educator burnout as measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educator's Survey(Baseline, 8 and 12 weeks after enrollment.)
- Physical health as measured by the 6-item Short Form Health Survey within the (SF-12)(Baseline, 8 and 12 weeks after enrollment.)
- Mental health as measured by the 6-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12)(Baseline, 8 and 12 weeks after enrollment.)
- Mindfulness as measured by the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire(Baseline, 8 and 12 weeks after enrollment.)
- Acceptability - Satisfaction(Baseline to 8 weeks)
研究者
Martha E. Shepherd
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Pediatrics
Vanderbilt University Medical Center