Burnout SyndromeNCT03141190
Mindful Mental Training for Surgeons to Enhance Resilience and Performance Under Stress
A study testing Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - modified and Active listening and reading in people with Burnout Syndrome and Surgery, run by University of California, San Francisco at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
Background: Burnout and overwhelming stress are growing issues among surgeons and are associated with mental illness, attrition and diminished patient care. Among surgical trainees, burnout and distress are alarmingly prevalent but high inherent mindfulness has been shown to decrease the risk of depression, suicidal… Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Burnout Syndrome, Surgery, Stress
- What is being tested?
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - modified and Active listening and reading
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 44 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- 1 Jun 2017to 30 Jun 2018
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- UCSF surgical interns entering training. Do not meet exclusion criteria.
Who cannot join
- Current personal mindfulness practice, medications with CNS effects, lifetime history of a mental disorder, acute or chronic immune or inflammatory disorders, pregnancy, breast-feeding or implanted MRI-incompatible metal.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
United States1 site
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, California, 94143
About this study
Official title: Mindfulness Training to Improve Mental Health, Stress and Performance In Physicians
Background:
Burnout and overwhelming stress are growing issues among surgeons and are associated with mental illness, attrition and diminished patient care. Among surgical trainees, burnout and distress are alarmingly prevalent but high inherent mindfulness has been shown to decrease the risk of depression, suicidal ideation, burnout and overwhelming stress by more than 75%. In other high-stress populations formal mindfulness training has been shown to improve mental health and buffer overwhelming stress and yet this approach has not been tried in surgery.
Read more
The aim of this study is to evaluate feasibility and acceptability of modified mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) training among PGY-1 surgery residents and to obtain initial evidence of efficacy in regard to well-being and performance.
Design: A pilot randomized clinical trial of modified MBSR versus an active control.
Setting: Residency training program, tertiary academic medical center.
Participants: PGY-1 surgery residents.
Intervention:
Weekly two-hour modified MBSR classes (compared to an active control) and 20 minutes of suggested daily home practice over an eight-week period.
Main Outcomes and Measures:
Primary outcome is feasibility, assessed along six domains (demand, implementation, practicality, acceptability, adaptation and integration), using focus groups, interviews, surveys, attendance, daily practice time and subjective self-report of experience.
Secondary outcomes include perceived stress, mindfulness and executive function (specifically working memory capacity), followed by psychosocial well-being (burnout, depression, resilience), performance (motor skills testing) and functional brain scans focused on areas associated with reappraisal as a surrogate for emotional control.
This study seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of mindfulness training in surgery PGY-1s while simultaneously providing preliminary quantitative data on the effects of mindfulness training in a randomized, controlled setting. Data will inform modifications to the MBSR curriculum that enhance feasibility and inform sample size calculations for subsequent, adequately-powered RCTs which will likely need to be multi-center trials.
Results could potentially impact formal medical training, the mental health of providers at every level, and the overall quality of patient care.
Read the detailed description
Mounting evidence shows that burnout, a critical metric for dissatisfaction and distress, is a growing problem within medicine. Burnout is a syndrome associated with worse physician performance, patient outcomes, and hospital economics.The quadruple aim of healthcare underscores that physician fulfillment is a critical part of any sustainable reform and appropriately frames physician burnout and fulfillment as issues that impact everyone, not just individual providers.
Burnout is believed to arise from a mismatch between expectations and reality, with more than half of practicing physicians and trainees reported to suffer from this problem. Among general surgery residents, the prevalence of burnout is estimated at 69% and dramatically increases the odds of both overwhelming stress and distress symptoms. The relationship between overwhelming stress and burnout is particularly concerning because extensive evidence links overwhelming stress to detrimental effects on learning, memory, decision-making, and performance.
A recent meta-analysis suggests that stress management/mindfulness interventions are particularly effective at addressing burnout on the individual level. Small cohort studies and controlled trials have shown mindfulness-based interventions to be effective at reducing stress and burnout in medical students, primary care physicians, internists, and other healthcare providers.
In general surgery trainees, inherent mindfulness tendencies (shown to increase following mindfulness training), decrease the risk of burnout, overwhelming stress, and distress symptoms by 75% or more. This suggests that mindfulness tendencies may already be used, albeit unconsciously, to cope within the high-stress culture of surgery. Indeed, isolated studies of performance strategies that involve emotional regulation, and focused attention (qualities shared with mindfulness training) have also demonstrated improvements in surgeons' technical performance and perceived stress.
Mindfulness meditation training involves the cultivation of moment-to-moment awareness of thoughts, emotions and sensations (also known as interoception), the development of non-reactivity in response to stimuli (also known as emotional regulation), and the enhancement of perspective-taking regarding oneself and others. The most scientifically studied form of mindfulness training is the secular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn in the 1970s. MBSR is formally trained through an eight-week codified curriculum and has been shown to decrease stress and burnout, protect executive function, and enhance performance in multiple high-stress populations.
In spite of such evidence, mindfulness training among surgeons has only occasionally been suggested or informally pursued, partly due to a disconnect between the indefatigable stoicism of surgery and mindfulness, which is often perceived as relaxation rather than a skill to enhance resilience. Moreover, the time pressures of surgical training make additional responsibilities and new curricula seem impossible.
In fact, the global effects of mindfulness training, as opposed to other interventions that target a single outcome, may prove to be its biggest asset. Individuals don't manifest the effects of overwhelming stress and burnout in identical ways, making an up-stream intervention with myriad downstream effects the most efficient method for intervening on large, diverse populations. Moreover, while other forms of skills training or mental health interventions require recurrent time away from work, mindfulness training involves an initial investment of time but then can be strengthened through practice in everyday settings - within the daily life, not separate from it.
To systematically examine the feasibility of formal mindfulness training during surgery internship at a tertiary academic center, we undertook the "Mindful Surgeon" pilot study. Our secondary goal is to gather preliminary evidence of efficacy, to guide future design of a scalable, adequately powered trial.
- Conditions
- Burnout Syndrome, Surgery, Stress
- Being tested
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - modified, Active listening and reading
- Keywords
- stress, surgery, mindfulness, feasibility
- Medical subject headings
- Burnout, Psychological
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - modifiedBehavioural
Also called MBSR
already described
Active listening and readingBehavioural
group reading, listening and discussion of articles pertaining to the development and experience of the surgical personality
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Mental Training for Surgeons | Experimental | Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR, as published elsewhere extensively) slightly modified by shortening the eight weekly classes to 2 hours each and the home practice requirement to 20 minutes. Taught by a veteran MBSR teacher with greater than 10,000 hours of personal practice and nearly 10 years of formal MBSR teaching experience. Receives: Behavioral: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - modified |
| The Mind of a Surgeon | Active comparator | 8 weekly classes of 2 hours each with group reading and discussion of selected articles and stories about the ethos and experience of becoming a surgeon. Designed and administered by a surgical faculty member with extensive experience in surgical education and scholarly work in the area of the 'surgical personality'. Receives: Behavioral: Active listening and reading |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Change in Stress
Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
Measured: baseline, 8wks (post-intervention),12-month follow-up
Secondary outcomes (1)
Change in Executive Function
Executive function as assessed via working memory capacity, cognitive control and executive composite components of the NIH EXAMINER battery.
Measured: baseline, 8wks (post-intervention),12-month follow-up
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted5 May 2017
- Study start1 Jun 2017
- Primary completion30 Jun 2018
- Study completion30 Jun 2018
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (25)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Burnout SyndromeStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by University of California, San FranciscoThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Model description
- Randomized, partially-blinded
- Masking
- Double blind
- Who is masked
- Participant, Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 44 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Carter Lebares, MD, Principal investigator, University of California, San Francisco
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03141190
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 16-19688
- Status last verified
- Mar 2022
- First submitted
- 1 May 2017
- Last updated
- 22 Mar 2022
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Publications
Shanafelt TD, Hasan O, Dyrbye LN, Sinsky C, Satele D, Sloan J, West CP. Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Balance in Physicians and the General US Working Population Between 2011 and 2014. Mayo Clin Proc. 2015 Dec;90(12):1600-13. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2015.08.023.
PubMed 26653297Shanafelt TD, Balch CM, Bechamps G, Russell T, Dyrbye L, Satele D, Collicott P, Novotny PJ, Sloan J, Freischlag J. Burnout and medical errors among American surgeons. Ann Surg. 2010 Jun;251(6):995-1000. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181bfdab3.
PubMed 19934755Scheepers RA, Boerebach BC, Arah OA, Heineman MJ, Lombarts KM. A Systematic Review of the Impact of Physicians' Occupational Well-Being on the Quality of Patient Care. Int J Behav Med. 2015 Dec;22(6):683-98. doi: 10.1007/s12529-015-9473-3.
PubMed 25733349Haas JS, Cook EF, Puopolo AL, Burstin HR, Cleary PD, Brennan TA. Is the professional satisfaction of general internists associated with patient satisfaction? J Gen Intern Med. 2000 Feb;15(2):122-8. doi: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2000.02219.x.
PubMed 10672116DiMatteo MR, Sherbourne CD, Hays RD, Ordway L, Kravitz RL, McGlynn EA, Kaplan S, Rogers WH. Physicians' characteristics influence patients' adherence to medical treatment: results from the Medical Outcomes Study. Health Psychol. 1993 Mar;12(2):93-102. doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.12.2.93.
PubMed 8500445Del Canale S, Louis DZ, Maio V, Wang X, Rossi G, Hojat M, Gonnella JS. The relationship between physician empathy and disease complications: an empirical study of primary care physicians and their diabetic patients in Parma, Italy. Acad Med. 2012 Sep;87(9):1243-9. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182628fbf.
PubMed 22836852Sinsky CA, Dyrbye LN, West CP, Satele D, Tutty M, Shanafelt TD. Professional Satisfaction and the Career Plans of US Physicians. Mayo Clin Proc. 2017 Nov;92(11):1625-1635. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2017.08.017. Epub 2017 Nov 1.
PubMed 29101932Dyrbye LN, Trockel M, Frank E, Olson K, Linzer M, Lemaire J, Swensen S, Shanafelt T, Sinsky CA. Development of a Research Agenda to Identify Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Physician Wellness and Reduce Burnout. Ann Intern Med. 2017 May 16;166(10):743-744. doi: 10.7326/M16-2956. Epub 2017 Apr 18. No abstract available.
PubMed 28418518Bodenheimer T, Sinsky C. From triple to quadruple aim: care of the patient requires care of the provider. Ann Fam Med. 2014 Nov-Dec;12(6):573-6. doi: 10.1370/afm.1713.
PubMed 25384822Campbell J, Prochazka AV, Yamashita T, Gopal R. Predictors of persistent burnout in internal medicine residents: a prospective cohort study. Acad Med. 2010 Oct;85(10):1630-4. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181f0c4e7.
PubMed 20881685Center C, Davis M, Detre T, Ford DE, Hansbrough W, Hendin H, Laszlo J, Litts DA, Mann J, Mansky PA, Michels R, Miles SH, Proujansky R, Reynolds CF 3rd, Silverman MM. Confronting depression and suicide in physicians: a consensus statement. JAMA. 2003 Jun 18;289(23):3161-6. doi: 10.1001/jama.289.23.3161.
PubMed 12813122Karlamangla AS, Singer BH, McEwen BS, Rowe JW, Seeman TE. Allostatic load as a predictor of functional decline. MacArthur studies of successful aging. J Clin Epidemiol. 2002 Jul;55(7):696-710. doi: 10.1016/s0895-4356(02)00399-2.
PubMed 12160918Arora S, Sevdalis N, Aggarwal R, Sirimanna P, Darzi A, Kneebone R. Stress impairs psychomotor performance in novice laparoscopic surgeons. Surg Endosc. 2010 Oct;24(10):2588-93. doi: 10.1007/s00464-010-1013-2. Epub 2010 Mar 31.
PubMed 20354878Wetzel CM, Kneebone RL, Woloshynowych M, Nestel D, Moorthy K, Kidd J, Darzi A. The effects of stress on surgical performance. Am J Surg. 2006 Jan;191(1):5-10. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2005.08.034.
PubMed 16399098Jha AP, Stanley EA, Kiyonaga A, Wong L, Gelfand L. Examining the protective effects of mindfulness training on working memory capacity and affective experience. Emotion. 2010 Feb;10(1):54-64. doi: 10.1037/a0018438.
PubMed 20141302
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 22 Mar 2022. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Mindfulness Training to Improve Mental Health, Stress and Performance In Physicians
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03141190
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 16-19688
- Conditions
- Burnout Syndrome, Surgery, Stress
- Keywords
- stress, surgery, mindfulness, feasibility
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 44 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- University of California, San FranciscoUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 1 Jun 2017 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 30 Jun 2018 (actual)
- Study completion
- 30 Jun 2018 (actual)
- First posted
- 5 May 2017 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Background:
Burnout and overwhelming stress are growing issues among surgeons and are associated with mental illness, attrition and diminished patient care. Among surgical trainees, burnout and distress are alarmingly prevalent but high inherent mindfulness has been shown to decrease the risk of depression, suicidal ideation, burnout and overwhelming stress by more than 75%. In other high-stress populations formal mindfulness training has been shown to improve mental health and buffer overwhelming stress and yet this approach has not been tried in surgery.
The aim of this study is to evaluate feasibility and acceptability of modified mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) training among PGY-1 surgery residents and to obtain initial evidence of efficacy in regard to well-being and performance.
Design: A pilot randomized clinical trial of modified MBSR versus an active control.
Setting: Residency training program, tertiary academic medical center.
Participants: PGY-1 surgery residents.
Intervention:
Weekly two-hour modified MBSR classes (compared to an active control) and 20 minutes of suggested daily home practice over an eight-week period.
Main Outcomes and Measures:
Primary outcome is feasibility, assessed along six domains (demand, implementation, practicality, acceptability, adaptation and integration), using focus groups, interviews, surveys, attendance, daily practice time and subjective self-report of experience.
Secondary outcomes include perceived stress, mindfulness and executive function (specifically working memory capacity), followed by psychosocial well-being (burnout, depression, resilience), performance (motor skills testing) and functional brain scans focused on areas associated with reappraisal as a surrogate for emotional control.
This study seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of mindfulness training in surgery PGY-1s while simultaneously providing preliminary quantitative data on the effects of mindfulness training in a randomized, controlled setting. Data will inform modifications to the MBSR curriculum that enhance feasibility and inform sample size calculations for subsequent, adequately-powered RCTs which will likely need to be multi-center trials.
Results could potentially impact formal medical training, the mental health of providers at every level, and the overall quality of patient care.
Detailed description
Mounting evidence shows that burnout, a critical metric for dissatisfaction and distress, is a growing problem within medicine. Burnout is a syndrome associated with worse physician performance, patient outcomes, and hospital economics.The quadruple aim of healthcare underscores that physician fulfillment is a critical part of any sustainable reform and appropriately frames physician burnout and fulfillment as issues that impact everyone, not just individual providers.
Burnout is believed to arise from a mismatch between expectations and reality, with more than half of practicing physicians and trainees reported to suffer from this problem. Among general surgery residents, the prevalence of burnout is estimated at 69% and dramatically increases the odds of both overwhelming stress and distress symptoms. The relationship between overwhelming stress and burnout is particularly concerning because extensive evidence links overwhelming stress to detrimental effects on learning, memory, decision-making, and performance.
A recent meta-analysis suggests that stress management/mindfulness interventions are particularly effective at addressing burnout on the individual level. Small cohort studies and controlled trials have shown mindfulness-based interventions to be effective at reducing stress and burnout in medical students, primary care physicians, internists, and other healthcare providers.
In general surgery trainees, inherent mindfulness tendencies (shown to increase following mindfulness training), decrease the risk of burnout, overwhelming stress, and distress symptoms by 75% or more. This suggests that mindfulness tendencies may already be used, albeit unconsciously, to cope within the high-stress culture of surgery. Indeed, isolated studies of performance strategies that involve emotional regulation, and focused attention (qualities shared with mindfulness training) have also demonstrated improvements in surgeons' technical performance and perceived stress.
Mindfulness meditation training involves the cultivation of moment-to-moment awareness of thoughts, emotions and sensations (also known as interoception), the development of non-reactivity in response to stimuli (also known as emotional regulation), and the enhancement of perspective-taking regarding oneself and others. The most scientifically studied form of mindfulness training is the secular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn in the 1970s. MBSR is formally trained through an eight-week codified curriculum and has been shown to decrease stress and burnout, protect executive function, and enhance performance in multiple high-stress populations.
In spite of such evidence, mindfulness training among surgeons has only occasionally been suggested or informally pursued, partly due to a disconnect between the indefatigable stoicism of surgery and mindfulness, which is often perceived as relaxation rather than a skill to enhance resilience. Moreover, the time pressures of surgical training make additional responsibilities and new curricula seem impossible.
In fact, the global effects of mindfulness training, as opposed to other interventions that target a single outcome, may prove to be its biggest asset. Individuals don't manifest the effects of overwhelming stress and burnout in identical ways, making an up-stream intervention with myriad downstream effects the most efficient method for intervening on large, diverse populations. Moreover, while other forms of skills training or mental health interventions require recurrent time away from work, mindfulness training involves an initial investment of time but then can be strengthened through practice in everyday settings - within the daily life, not separate from it.
To systematically examine the feasibility of formal mindfulness training during surgery internship at a tertiary academic center, we undertook the "Mindful Surgeon" pilot study. Our secondary goal is to gather preliminary evidence of efficacy, to guide future design of a scalable, adequately powered trial.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Double blind (participant, outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 2
- Model description
- Randomized, partially-blinded
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Mental Training for Surgeons | Experimental | Behavioral: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - modifiedMindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR, as published elsewhere extensively) slightly modified by shortening the eight weekly classes to 2 hours each and the home practice requirement to 20 minutes. Taught by a veteran MBSR teacher with greater than 10,000 hours of personal practice and nearly 10 years of formal MBSR teaching experience. |
| The Mind of a Surgeon | Active comparator | Behavioral: Active listening and reading8 weekly classes of 2 hours each with group reading and discussion of selected articles and stories about the ethos and experience of becoming a surgeon. Designed and administered by a surgical faculty member with extensive experience in surgical education and scholarly work in the area of the 'surgical personality'. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- UCSF surgical interns entering training. Do not meet exclusion criteria.
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Current personal mindfulness practice, medications with CNS effects, lifetime history of a mental disorder, acute or chronic immune or inflammatory disorders, pregnancy, breast-feeding or implanted MRI-incompatible metal.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - modifiedAlso: MBSRalready described | Behavioural | Mental Training for Surgeons |
| Active listening and readinggroup reading, listening and discussion of articles pertaining to the development and experience of the surgical personality | Behavioural | The Mind of a Surgeon |
Primary outcome
Change in Stress
Time frame: baseline, 8wks (post-intervention),12-month follow-up
Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
1 secondary outcome
Change in Executive Function
Time frame: baseline, 8wks (post-intervention),12-month follow-up
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 22 Mar 2022.
- Background: PubMed 26653297Shanafelt TD, Hasan O, Dyrbye LN, Sinsky C, Satele D, Sloan J, West CP. Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Balance in Physicians and the General US Working Population Between 2011 and 2014. Mayo Clin Proc. 2015 Dec;90(12):1600-13. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2015.08.023.
- Background: PubMed 19934755Shanafelt TD, Balch CM, Bechamps G, Russell T, Dyrbye L, Satele D, Collicott P, Novotny PJ, Sloan J, Freischlag J. Burnout and medical errors among American surgeons. Ann Surg. 2010 Jun;251(6):995-1000. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181bfdab3.
- Background: PubMed 25733349Scheepers RA, Boerebach BC, Arah OA, Heineman MJ, Lombarts KM. A Systematic Review of the Impact of Physicians' Occupational Well-Being on the Quality of Patient Care. Int J Behav Med. 2015 Dec;22(6):683-98. doi: 10.1007/s12529-015-9473-3.
- Background: PubMed 10672116Haas JS, Cook EF, Puopolo AL, Burstin HR, Cleary PD, Brennan TA. Is the professional satisfaction of general internists associated with patient satisfaction? J Gen Intern Med. 2000 Feb;15(2):122-8. doi: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2000.02219.x.
- Background: PubMed 8500445DiMatteo MR, Sherbourne CD, Hays RD, Ordway L, Kravitz RL, McGlynn EA, Kaplan S, Rogers WH. Physicians' characteristics influence patients' adherence to medical treatment: results from the Medical Outcomes Study. Health Psychol. 1993 Mar;12(2):93-102. doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.12.2.93.
- Background: PubMed 22836852Del Canale S, Louis DZ, Maio V, Wang X, Rossi G, Hojat M, Gonnella JS. The relationship between physician empathy and disease complications: an empirical study of primary care physicians and their diabetic patients in Parma, Italy. Acad Med. 2012 Sep;87(9):1243-9. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182628fbf.
- Background: PubMed 29101932Sinsky CA, Dyrbye LN, West CP, Satele D, Tutty M, Shanafelt TD. Professional Satisfaction and the Career Plans of US Physicians. Mayo Clin Proc. 2017 Nov;92(11):1625-1635. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2017.08.017. Epub 2017 Nov 1.
- Background: PubMed 28418518Dyrbye LN, Trockel M, Frank E, Olson K, Linzer M, Lemaire J, Swensen S, Shanafelt T, Sinsky CA. Development of a Research Agenda to Identify Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Physician Wellness and Reduce Burnout. Ann Intern Med. 2017 May 16;166(10):743-744. doi: 10.7326/M16-2956. Epub 2017 Apr 18. No abstract available.
- Background: PubMed 25384822Bodenheimer T, Sinsky C. From triple to quadruple aim: care of the patient requires care of the provider. Ann Fam Med. 2014 Nov-Dec;12(6):573-6. doi: 10.1370/afm.1713.
- Background: PubMed 20881685Campbell J, Prochazka AV, Yamashita T, Gopal R. Predictors of persistent burnout in internal medicine residents: a prospective cohort study. Acad Med. 2010 Oct;85(10):1630-4. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181f0c4e7.
- Background: PubMed 12813122Center C, Davis M, Detre T, Ford DE, Hansbrough W, Hendin H, Laszlo J, Litts DA, Mann J, Mansky PA, Michels R, Miles SH, Proujansky R, Reynolds CF 3rd, Silverman MM. Confronting depression and suicide in physicians: a consensus statement. JAMA. 2003 Jun 18;289(23):3161-6. doi: 10.1001/jama.289.23.3161.
- Background: PubMed 12160918Karlamangla AS, Singer BH, McEwen BS, Rowe JW, Seeman TE. Allostatic load as a predictor of functional decline. MacArthur studies of successful aging. J Clin Epidemiol. 2002 Jul;55(7):696-710. doi: 10.1016/s0895-4356(02)00399-2.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Carter Lebares, MD principal investigator
University of California, San Francisco
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - modified and Active listening and reading in people with Burnout Syndrome and Surgery, run by University of California, San Francisco at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 22 Mar 2022. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Change in Stress (time frame: baseline, 8wks (post-intervention),12-month follow-up). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT03141190, which also lists 25 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 22 Mar 2022.