The Effect of Relaxation Response on Provider Burnout

Burnout Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01786499
• Other study ID #: 3888-2
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 5, 2013
• Last updated: November 30, 2016
• Start date: June 2013

Study information

• Verified date: November 2016
• Source: Allina Health System
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Hypothesis: Relaxation Response training is an effective intervention in reducing the prevalence and severity of burnout and its components from baseline levels among physicians receiving the training intervention. The intervention is hypothesized to moderate the relationship between Areas of Worklife (AWS) and burnout by improving physician's ability to cope with the demands of their workplace. This increased coping ability is hypothesized to reduce burnout.

Physician practices are as unique as the individual practitioners and the environment in which they practice. Traditional instruction of relaxation or self-care techniques has required participants to travel to locations remote from the workplace. The time commitment required for this behavior is additive to the time required to learn the intervention and of itself may induce extra stress increasing the potential for burnout. This study proposes that bringing the intervention to the workplace will increase provider willingness to participate and diminish the stress introduced by deployment of the intervention. Since inpatient and outpatient medicine have different practice characteristics and demands on the time of the practitioners, this study will need to develop and test the logistics necessary to bring the training to the different physician populations.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. primary completion date: December 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Providers at designated clinic and hospital

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Burnout
• Perceived Stress
• Resilience

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Relaxation Response Training

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Allina Health	Minneapolis	Minnesota

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Allina Health System

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (2)

Benson H, Greenwood MM, Klemchuk H. The relaxation response: psychophysiologic aspects and clinical applications. Int J Psychiatry Med. 1975;6(1-2):87-98. — View Citation

Leiter, M. P., & Maslach, C. (2004). Areas of worklife: A structured approach to organizational predictors of job burnout. Research in Occupational Stress and Well being: Emotional and Physiological Processes and Positive Intervention Strategies, 3, 92-134.

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in burnout expression in study population	Measurement strategy: data collection at Baseline (prior to beginning of the Relaxation Response training), 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months, and 24 months after implementation.; Measurement instruments: survey that measures prevalence and severity of burnout (Maslach Burnout Inventory, MBI), the proximate drivers of burnout (Areas of Worklife Survey), an assessment of the perceived stress experienced by the practitioners (Perceived Stress Scale), and a measure of the personal resilience (Conor-Davidson Resilience Scale). Standard univariate statistics will be used to produce descriptive measures of the sample, Chronbach's alpha to assess internal reliability of survey measures, and confirmatory factor analysis will be employed to determine if the data fits the a priori theoretical model. A combination of the approaches above will help to assess the effectiveness of the Relaxation Response intervention on the prevalence, incidence, and trajectory of provider burnout.	Three months	No