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Burnout, ProfessionalNCT05583435

Decreasing Physician Burnout With Professional Coaching

A study testing One-on-one professional coaching and Small-group professional coaching in people with Burnout, Professional, run by University of California, Los Angeles at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

The goal of this randomized control trial is to learn if professional coaching can help reduce physician burnout among physicians at UCLA. The main aims of the study are: To reduce burnout among physicians with professional coaching Improve work satisfaction and engagement, sense of self-efficacy and social support… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
Conditions the study is for
Burnout, Professional
What is being tested?
One-on-one professional coaching and Small-group professional coaching
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
79 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
2 Mar 2023to 13 Apr 2024
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

  • Actively practicing UCLA department of medicine physicians who had at least two years of employment at UCLA

Who cannot join

  • Current or anticipated (in the next 6 months) participation in one-on-one or group coaching provided by a professional coach

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site

  • University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, California, 90095

Other trials in United States

About this study

The goal of this randomized control trial is to learn if professional coaching can help reduce physician burnout among physicians at UCLA. The main aims of the study are:

  • To reduce burnout among physicians with professional coaching
  • Improve work satisfaction and engagement, sense of self-efficacy and social support with professional coaching
  • Determine the efficacy of one-on-one professional coaching and small group professional coaching combined with behavioral interventions/activities in reducing physician burnout and comparing these groups to one another and to a delayed-entry (control) group
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Participants will be randomly assigned into one of three groups:

  • Intervention Group 1: One-on-one coaching (N=30). Six one-on-one coaching sessions via Zoom with one of two private professional coaches every other week for 3-4 months.
  • Intervention Group 2: Coach-facilitated group sessions and coach-guided activities/behavioral interventions (N=30). Six small-group coaching sessions via Zoom with one of two private professional coaches and three physician participants in each group, every other week for 3-4 months.
  • Delayed-Entry Group 3 (N=30): No intervention during duration of study period. Note: once participation in the pilot study has been completed for Groups 1 and 2, physicians participating in Group 3 will be offered to participate in six one-on-one sessions with a private professional coach over a 3-4 month period.

Participants will complete several surveys that assess for burnout, work engagement and satisfaction, sense of social support and isolation, and areas of worklife) before the start, upon completion of the intervention and again at 6 months upon completion of the sessions for the delayed-entry group.

Each group also received coach-guided activities/behavioral interventions during coaching sessions. These activities will be sent by coaches to participates throughout the 3 month period and include, but are not limited to: Wheel of Life, visioning exercise, one page miracle: core values, purpose, and goals, buckets and mental models.

Being tested
One-on-one professional coaching, Small-group professional coaching
Keywords
physician burnout, coaching, work engagement
Medical subject headings
Burnout, Professional

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • One-on-one professional coachingBehavioural

    One-on-one professional coaching

  • Small-group professional coachingBehavioural

    Small-group professional coaching

Study groups in NCT05583435
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
One-on-one professional coachingExperimentalOne-on-one professional coaching (N=30). Six one-on-one coaching sessions via Zoom with one of two private professional coaches every other week for 3-4 months. The professional coaching method includes (but will not be limited to) the following themes: optimizing meaning and engagement in work, building social support and community, improving work efficiency, addressing workload and boundary setting, enhancing communication, and building leadership skills, pursuing hobbies and creation/innovation, and promoting self-compassion and self-care (with a focus on physical and mental health). Coach-guided activities/behavioral interventions are included with coaching sessions. These activities are reviewed with participants throughout the 3-4 month period and include, but are not limited to: Wheel of Life, visioning exercise, one page miracle: core values, purpose, and goals, buckets and mental models.
Receives: Behavioral: One-on-one professional coaching
Small-group professional coaching with coach-guided activities/behavioral internventionsExperimentalCoach-facilitated small group professional coaching sessions and coach-guided activities/behavioral interventions (N=30). Six small-group coaching sessions via Zoom with one of two private professional coaches and three physician participants in each group, every other week for 3-4 months. The professional coaching method is similar to those receiving 1:1 professional coaching. The primary difference in this intervention group is that coaching sessions will be group-based with 3 physician participants.
Receives: Behavioral: Small-group professional coaching
Delayed-entry group (placebo then one-on-one professional coaching)ExperimentalDelayed-Entry Group 3 (N=30). No intervention during the 90 day study period. Note: once participation in the pilot study has been completed for Groups 1 and 2, physicians participating in Group 3 will be offered to participate in six one-on-one sessions with a private professional coach over a 3 month period. The professional coaching method includes (but will not be limited to) the following themes: optimizing meaning and engagement in work, building social support and community, improving work efficiency, addressing workload and boundary setting, enhancing communication, and building leadership skills, pursuing hobbies and creation/innovation, and promoting self-compassion and self-care (with a focus on physical and mental health).
Receives: Behavioral: One-on-one professional coaching

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Burnout

    Physician burnout (as measured by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal accomplishment) evaluated with the Maslach Inventory Scale

    Measured: 90 days

Secondary outcomes (4)

  1. Areas of Worklife

    Workload, control, reward, community, fairness and values as measured by the Areas of Worklife Survey

    Measured: 90 days

  2. Self-efficacy

    Sense of self-efficacy as measured by New General Self-Efficacy Scale

    Measured: 90 days

  3. Work Engagmement and Satisfaction

    Measured by the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale

    Measured: 90 days

  4. Social Support

    Sense of social support and isolation as measured by the PROMIS Social Isolation Subscale and Social Provisions Scale

    Measured: 90 days

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted17 Oct 2022
  2. Study start2 Mar 2023
  3. Primary completion13 Apr 2024
  4. Study completion13 Apr 2024

Resources

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
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
79 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05583435
Sponsor's protocol ID
22-001542
Status last verified
Mar 2025
First submitted
13 Oct 2022
Last updated
27 Mar 2025
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Maslach C, Jackson SE, Leiter MP. Maslach Burnout Inventory. 4th ed. Menlo Park, CA: Mind Garden; 2016

  • Leiter MP, Maslach C. Six areas of worklife: a model of the organizational context of burnout. J Health Hum Serv Adm. 1999 Spring;21(4):472-89.

    PubMed 10621016

  • New General Self Efficacy Scale: Chen, G., Gully, S. M., & Eden, D. (2001). Validation of a new general self-efficacy scale. Organizational research methods, 4(1), 62-83

  • Utrecht Work Engagement Scale: Schaufeli W, Bakker A. UWES: Utrecht Work Engagement Scale: preliminary manual [version 1.1, December 2004]. https://www.wilmarschaufeli.nl/publications/Schaufeli/Test%20Manuals/Test_manual_UWES_English.pdf.

  • Hahn EA, DeWalt DA, Bode RK, Garcia SF, DeVellis RF, Correia H, Cella D; PROMIS Cooperative Group. New English and Spanish social health measures will facilitate evaluating health determinants. Health Psychol. 2014 May;33(5):490-9. doi: 10.1037/hea0000055. Epub 2014 Jan 20.

    PubMed 24447188

  • Social Provisions Scale: Cutrona CE, Russell DW. The provisions of social relationships and adaptation to stress. Advances in Personal Relationships. 1987;1:37-67.

  • Dyrbye LN, Varkey P, Boone SL, Satele DV, Sloan JA, Shanafelt TD. Physician satisfaction and burnout at different career stages. Mayo Clin Proc. 2013 Dec;88(12):1358-67. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2013.07.016.

    PubMed 24290109

  • Han S, Shanafelt TD, Sinsky CA, Awad KM, Dyrbye LN, Fiscus LC, Trockel M, Goh J. Estimating the Attributable Cost of Physician Burnout in the United States. Ann Intern Med. 2019 Jun 4;170(11):784-790. doi: 10.7326/M18-1422. Epub 2019 May 28.

    PubMed 31132791

  • Panagioti M, Panagopoulou E, Bower P, Lewith G, Kontopantelis E, Chew-Graham C, Dawson S, van Marwijk H, Geraghty K, Esmail A. Controlled Interventions to Reduce Burnout in Physicians: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Feb 1;177(2):195-205. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.7674.

    PubMed 27918798

  • Dyrbye LN, Shanafelt TD, Gill PR, Satele DV, West CP. Effect of a Professional Coaching Intervention on the Well-being and Distress of Physicians: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Oct 1;179(10):1406-1414. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.2425.

    PubMed 31380892

  • Khalili J, Miotto K, Wang T, Mafi JN, Kyababchyan E, Sanford J, Elashoff D, Brook J, Adebambo Y, Smith PI, Nguyen E, Yoo SM. Professional Coaching to Reduce Physician Burnout: A Randomized Clinical Trial. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 Jul 11. doi: 10.1007/s11606-025-09653-w. Online ahead of print.

    PubMed 40643743

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing One-on-one professional coaching and Small-group professional coaching in people with Burnout, Professional, run by University of California, Los Angeles 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 27 Mar 2025. 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?

Burnout (time frame: 90 days). 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 NCT05583435, which also lists 11 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 27 Mar 2025.

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