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NCT Number: NCT03403335

Mindfulness Practices for Healthcare Professional Trainees

A newly developed intervention, Mindfulness Based Practices for Health Care Professionals in Training: Clinical Applications, will be piloted to determine the feasibility and accessibility within this population. The purpose of the proposed study is to assess the change in perceived stress at work/school and psychological symptomology; i.e., depression, stress, emotion regulation, and dispositional mindfulness, from pre to post intervention in health care professional students and when compared to a matched control group.

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Key information

Conditions

Stress

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, Virginia, 23298, United States

About this study

The proposed study aims to investigate an 8-week intervention: Mindfulness Based Practices for Health Care Professionals in Training: Clinical Applications. During the intervention, participants will engage in didactic education, experiential mindfulness practices, including gentle yoga, and group dialogue. The aim of the study is to investigate the feasibility of this intervention in producing measurable differences between the participants and matched controls on their perception of their well-being and clinical work.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Students/faculty from any health care department at VCU

Exclusion criteria

  • Anyone who is not a student/faculty from a health care department at VCU

Treatment and study plan

Mindfulness Based Practices for Health Care Professionals in Training

Behavioral

Eight weekly sessions including didactic lecture, discussion, homework, gentle yoga, and meditation and mindfulness exercises

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in burnout

    Time frame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up

    Assessed using Maslach Burnout Inventory a 22 item screening tool with higher values indicating more burnout

  2. Change in depressive symptoms

    Time frame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up

    Assessed using Patient Health Questionnaire 9. 9-items with lower values indicating less depression

  3. Change in state anxiety

    Time frame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up

    Assessed using State Trait Anxiety Inventory -- a 20 item measure with some items reverse scored and higher scored indicating higher state anxiety

  4. Change in ruminative thinking

    Time frame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up

    Assessed using Rumination Response Scale -- a 10 item measure with higher scores indicating higher rumination

  5. Change in stress

    Time frame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up

    Assessed using Perceived Stress Scale -- a 14-item scale with higher scores indicating higher levels of stress

  6. Change in dispositional mindfulness

    Time frame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up

    Assessed using Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire -- a 39-item measure of 5 domains of mindfulness in daily life, with higher scores indicating higher levels of mindfulness

  7. Change in cognitive functioning

    Time frame: administered at baseline and post-intervention (8 weeks)

    Assessed using Trail Making Test A & B -- a brief task requiring respondents to connect numbered dots and then switch between number and letters, speed and accuracy are both recorded

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change in interprofessional attitudes measure

    Time frame: administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up

    Assessed using Interprofessional Team Training Assessment -- a 22-item measure and Student Perceptions of Physician-Pharmacist Interprofessional Clinical Education -- a 10-item measure; both with higher scores indicating more positive attitudes toward interprofessional training

  2. Follow-up Interview of Perceptions of Mindfulness and Interprofessional Education

    Time frame: assessed at 3-month post-intervention follow-up

    qualitative interview and exploration -- participants will spend approximately 30 minute by phone being interviewed on their experiences with the intervention especially in the context of healthcare and interprofessional education

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Virginia Commonwealth University

Other

Collaborators

  • American Psychological Association (APA)

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2018
Study completion
2019
First posted
Jan 18, 2018
Registry last updated
Jun 4, 2019

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