Intervention Trial to Increase Meaning in Work and Reduce Burnout

Burnout, Professional Clinical Trial

Official title:

Intervention Trial Designed to Promote Collegiality and Mutual Support at Work as a Way to Increase Meaning in Work and Reduce Burnout

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04466423
• Other study ID #: 13-004834
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 1, 2013
• Est. completion date: October 1, 2014

Study information

• Verified date: July 2020
• Source: Mayo Clinic
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Collegiality is a one of the great virtues of physician-hood. Mutual support from colleagues to help deal with the challenges of being a physician has long helped physicians manage the stress related to practicing medicine and helped physicians derive meaning from their work. Unfortunately, increased productivity expectations and other changes to the practice of medicine over the last several decades have decreased the time physicians have to interact with colleagues and eroded the fabric of collegiality. Recent studies suggest burnout affects nearly half of U.S. physicians at any given point in time and has substantial personal and professional consequences. The steps organizations can take to promote collegiality are unknown. The goal of the present study is to evaluate the ability of an organizational intervention to encourage collegiality, shared experience, connectedness, and mutual support. This study builds on two prior intervention studies directed by the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine Program on Physician Well-Being, the first focusing on a small group facilitated well-being curriculum and the second focusing on individual electronic tasks to prompt positive reflection and gratitude.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 125
• Est. completion date: October 1, 2014
• Est. primary completion date: October 1, 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Senior Associate Consultants and Consultants in the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine will be eligible for this study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• None beyond inclusion criteria.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Burnout, Professional
• Burnout, Psychological

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Small group meetings (COMPASS: COlleagues Meeting to Promote And Sustain Satisfaction)
The first 15 minutes of each session will be semi-structured discussion involving i) check in and ii) dialogue about the assigned question. Group leaders will be provided 3-4 discussion questions for each session. The group (or the leader) can choose the one they are most interested in and will then spend 10-15 minutes discussing the question together. Questions will touch on key themes for discussion (see the attached topics list) and are derived from our previous intervention studies. The remainder of the time can be used for socializing and building relationships with colleagues.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Mayo Clinic

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Burnout	Maslach Burnout Inventory results	12 month outcomes
Secondary	Depressive symptoms	PRIME-MD	12 month outcomes
Secondary	Quality of life	LASA QOL	12 month outcomes
Secondary	Job satisfaction	PJSS	12 month outcomes
Secondary	Meaning at work	EWS	12 month outcomes
Secondary	Social support	Social Provisions Scale	12 month outcomes
Secondary	Social isolation	PROMIS Social Isolation	12 month outcomes
Secondary	Job turnover	Single item asking about 2-year plans to leave current practice	12 month outcomes

External Links

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