Mindfulness for Medical Students

Burnout, Professional Clinical Trial

Official title:

Mindfulness for Medical Students

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03614390
• Other study ID #: CUHK-mind
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 7, 2018
• Est. completion date: January 28, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: January 2019
• Source: Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Burnout is common among medical students. Previous studies had shown that mindfulness based interventions may improve burnout and quality of life in medical students. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is one of the most often used mindfulness based interventions.

Medical students in the Chinese University of Hong Kong are invited to a MBCT on voluntary basis. They will be asked to fill in questionnaire that measures burnout, depression/anxiety, quality of life, and mindfulness at beginning and end of the MBCT. The pre-group and post-group data will be compared and analysed

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 24
• Est. completion date: January 28, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: October 26, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Medical students studying in Chinese University of Hong Kong

Exclusion Criteria:

• The investigators did not set any exclusion criteria

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Burnout, Professional
• Mindfulness

Intervention

Behavioral:
• mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT)
a well described and structured intervention, which is published previously. The psychoeducation materials in the MBCT will be titrated to discuss about low mood and burnout

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Hong Kong	Lek Yuen Clinic	Hong Kong

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Hong Kong, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	The validated Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is a 22-item questionnaire that assesses three aspects of professional burnout syndrome which includes emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal accomplishment. It is widely used in research and has been widely used in studies about medical student well-being. In the scale, burnout is conceptualized as a continuous construct and participant is asked to rate their job related feelings using a 7-point Likert scale ranging from "never" to "everyday". A high degree of burnout is defined as a respondent who scores low on the Personal Accomplishment subscale but high in the Emotional Exhaustion and Depersonalization subscales of the instrument	8 weeks (before and after MBCT; after 8 weekly sessions)
Secondary	21-item Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21)	The 21-item DASS-21 questionnaire will be used to assess the presence of depression, anxiety and tension/stress with 7 items per subscale. Each item is ranked from 0 (did not apply to me at all) to 3 (applied to me very much, or most of the time). The total score is computed by adding scores of each item and multiplying them by a factor of 2. Therefore, the total possible score ranges from 0 to 126. The questionnaire exhibits adequate validity and internal consistency among clinical and non-clinical samples	8 weeks (before and after MBCT; after 8 weekly sessions)
Secondary	the World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment (WHOQOL-BREF)	The WHOQOL-BREF consisted of 26 items representing four underlying domains: environment, psychological, social relationship and physical health. Scores within each domain can be transformed to a scale of 0-100, with higher scores represent better quality of life. The scales was used in medical students' burnout research	8 weeks (before and after MBCT; after 8 weekly sessions)
Secondary	Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)	The FFMQ consisted of 39 items representing five underlying constructs: observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judging of inner experience and non-reactivity to inner experience. Each item is rated from 1 ("never or very rarely true) to 5 ("very often or always true"). Total Score can be obtained by summation of scores.The higher score represents a more mindful attitude in daily life.	8 weeks (before and after MBCT; after 8 weekly sessions)