Fostering Resilience in Physician Moms

August 28, 2017 updated by: Cynthia M. Stonnington, M.D., Mayo Clinic

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

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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

44

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
    • Arizona
      • Scottsdale, Arizona, United States, 85259
        • Mayo Clinic in Arizona

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

25 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

Female

Description

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.

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: Prevention
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Group therapy
12 week manualized group therapy (one hour per week)
Behavioral: Manualized Therapy
Relational psychotherapy mothers
Other: Control Group
Participants get one hour of time away from patient care/duties to do as they wish.
Behavioral: Control Group
one hour of free time to do with as they wish

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
level of depression
Time Frame: Baseline to 3 months
Beck Depression Inventory
Baseline to 3 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
biomarker of stress
Time Frame: Baseline to 3 months
C-reactive protein
Baseline to 3 months
biomarker of stress
Time Frame: Baseline to 3 months
nerve-growth factor
Baseline to 3 months
Professional functioning
Time Frame: Baseline to 3 months
The Maslach Burnout Inventory
Baseline to 3 months
perceived social support
Time Frame: Baseline to 3 months
Quality of Social Support Scale
Baseline to 3 months
Parenting stress
Time Frame: Baseline to 3 months
Parenting Stress Inventory
Baseline to 3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Mayo Clinic

Collaborators

Arizona State University

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

February 1, 2015

Primary Completion (Actual)

July 1, 2016

Study Completion (Actual)

December 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 28, 2015

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 3, 2015

First Posted (Estimate)

September 4, 2015

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

August 30, 2017

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 28, 2017

Last Verified

August 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 14-009196

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

Clinical Trials on Stress, Psychological

Clinical Trials on Manualized Therapy

Search Similar Trials

Sponsors and Collaborators

Medical Conditions

Drug Interventions

CROs by country

CROs in New Zealand

Conditions

Rare Diseases

Drug Interventions

Dietary Supplements

Sponsor/Collaborators

Locations

Subscribe