Evaluating an Intervention for Physician Burnout

Conditions

• Physician Burnout

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

18 Years - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Accepted

Interventions

• App-Delivered Mindfulness Training (MT). — OTHER
  The program is delivered via a smartphone-based platform, which includes 7 mindfulness-based modules of about 15 minutes of brief didactic and experience-based for two weeks
• Online Virtual Training — OTHER
  A sub-group of 25 participants, either from the both intervention or control group, the will receive a virtual online training delivered via zoom calls. It is a group session program which includes 4 mindfulness-based sessions of about 60 minutes of brief didactic and experience-based for four weeks.

Study Details

The goals of this randomized controlled trial are 1) to test the efficacy of an app-based program in reducing physician burnout vs. no app (control) in 100 physicians; 2) to explore the role of an online live training to augment outcomes and develop an ongoing and sustainable support community with a subsample of physicians.

Key Dates

Start date

Feb 12, 2025

Status verified

May 2025

Primary completion

Dec 31, 2025

Completion

Feb 27, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment

100 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Arms

• Experimental: Experimental: Early App-Delivered Mindfulness Training (MT).
  Participants will be asked to utilize the app designed to reduce burnout for 2 weeks
• Other: Later App-Delivered Mindfulness Training (MT).
  Participants will receive the intervention after the three-month follow-up, not before.
• Experimental: Experimental: Online Virtual Training
  A sub-group of participants will receive the virtual online training after three-month follow-up or directly after the app-based intervention.

Primary Outcome Measure

Level of cynicism [ Time Frame: It will be collected 3 times, at baseline, 2 weeks after (post-app), three months later (follow-up). For the sub-group that will attend the online virtual training intervention, it will be collected after 4 months (post online training intervention). ]

Central Contacts

• Lia Antico, PhD In Neuroscience
  +1-401-328-0763
  [email protected]
• Judson Brewer, PhD, MD
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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