The Effect of Relaxation Response on Provider Burnout

November 30, 2016 updated by: Allina Health System

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.

Study Overview

Status

Withdrawn

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Minnesota
      • Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55407
        • Allina Health

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Providers at designated clinic and hospital

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Other: Relaxation Response Training
Behavioral: Relaxation Response Training

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in burnout expression in study population
Time Frame: Three months

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

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Allina Health System

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

June 1, 2013

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

December 1, 2013

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

February 5, 2013

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 6, 2013

First Posted (Estimate)

February 8, 2013

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

December 1, 2016

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 30, 2016

Last Verified

November 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 3888-2

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