Fostering Resilience in Physician Moms

Stress, Psychological Clinical Trial

Official title:

Fostering Resilience: An Intervention for Women Physicians at Risk for Burnout

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02540473
• Other study ID #: 14-009196
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 28, 2015
• Last updated: August 28, 2017
• Start date: February 2015
• Est. completion date: December 2016

Study information

• Verified date: August 2017
• Source: Mayo Clinic
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Physicians in general are at risk for burnout, and this risk is heightened among women, particularly mothers. In a randomized design, central hypotheses in this study are that mothers who attend our 12-week Relational Psychotherapy Mothers Group (RPMG) intervention will show significantly greater decreases in stress, depression, burnout, and associated risk biomarker indices, as compared to comparison controls (who would meet in unstructured gatherings, for an hour a week for 12 weeks). Additionally the investigators hypothesize that the gains would be maintained three months after the intervention is completed.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 44
• Est. completion date: December 2016
• Est. primary completion date: July 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 25 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion of Women and Minorities:

• This study will be restricted to women physician mothers, who are the target of the manualized RPMG program.

• The study will not use race or ethnicity as a basis for selecting subjects.

Inclusion of Children:

• This study does not include children.

Exclusion criteria

• Participation in this study is open to all Mayo physician mothers with a child under the age of 18 years.

• As in past RPMG trials, the only exclusion criteria are if mothers were to indicate active suicidality, or meet criteria for psychoses, during initial assessments or during participation in this study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Stress, Psychological

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Manualized Therapy
Relational psychotherapy mothers
• Control Group
one hour of free time to do with as they wish

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Mayo Clinic in Arizona	Scottsdale	Arizona

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Mayo Clinic	Arizona State University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	level of depression	Beck Depression Inventory	Baseline to 3 months
Secondary	biomarker of stress	C-reactive protein	Baseline to 3 months
Secondary	biomarker of stress	nerve-growth factor	Baseline to 3 months
Secondary	Professional functioning	The Maslach Burnout Inventory	Baseline to 3 months
Secondary	perceived social support	Quality of Social Support Scale	Baseline to 3 months
Secondary	Parenting stress	Parenting Stress Inventory	Baseline to 3 months