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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Stress
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Mindfulness Based Practices for Health Care Professionals in Training

Detailed Description

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.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 57
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Virginia
    • Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23298
      • Virginia Commonwealth University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: CROSSOVER
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
NO_INTERVENTION: Control Group
EXPERIMENTAL: Mindfulness Based Practices for Health Care Professionals	Behavioral: Mindfulness Based Practices for Health Care Professionals in Training; Eight weekly sessions including didactic lecture, discussion, homework, gentle yoga, and meditation and mindfulness exercises

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in burnout	Assessed using Maslach Burnout Inventory a 22 item screening tool with higher values indicating more burnout	administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
Change in depressive symptoms	Assessed using Patient Health Questionnaire 9. 9-items with lower values indicating less depression	administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
Change in state anxiety	Assessed using State Trait Anxiety Inventory -- a 20 item measure with some items reverse scored and higher scored indicating higher state anxiety	administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
Change in ruminative thinking	Assessed using Rumination Response Scale -- a 10 item measure with higher scores indicating higher rumination	administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
Change in stress	Assessed using Perceived Stress Scale -- a 14-item scale with higher scores indicating higher levels of stress	administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
Change in dispositional mindfulness	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	administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
Change in cognitive functioning	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	administered at baseline and post-intervention (8 weeks)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in interprofessional attitudes measure	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	administered at baseline, post-intervention (8 weeks), and 3 month post-intervention follow-up
Follow-up Interview of Perceptions of Mindfulness and Interprofessional Education	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	assessed at 3-month post-intervention follow-up

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University
• Collaborators: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Bruce Rybarczyk, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Braun SE, Mladen SN, Luberto CM, Kinser PA. Maintenance of Effects and Correlates of Changes Following Mindfulness for Interdisciplinary Health Care Professional Students. Integr Med Rep. 2022 Sep 1;1(1):177-185. doi: 10.1089/imr.2021.0012. Epub 2022 Sep 7.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): February 9, 2018
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): December 31, 2018
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): April 28, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 11, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 11, 2018
• First Posted (ACTUAL): January 18, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): June 4, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 31, 2019
• Last Verified: May 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: HM20012397

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No