Effect of Coaching on Surgeon Well-Being, Job Satisfaction, & Fulfillment

June 15, 2021 updated by: Liselotte (Lotte) N. Dyrbye, Mayo Clinic
Researchers are trying to determine if individualized professional coaching improves physicians' sense of well-being and job satisfaction.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

80

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
      • Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905
        • Mayo Clinic

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

  • ADULT
  • OLDER_ADULT
  • CHILD

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Surgeons at Mayo Clinic

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Retired surgeons at Mayo Clinic; physicians in other disciplines or organizations

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: OTHER
  • Allocation: RANDOMIZED
  • Interventional Model: CROSSOVER
  • Masking: NONE

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Immediate Coaching Intervention
Subjects will receive 6 professional coaching sessions
Behavioral: Professional Coaching
6 individualized professional coaching sessions via phone
EXPERIMENTAL: Delayed Coaching Intervention
Subjects will receive no coaching for the first six months of the study, at which point they cross over and receive 6 professional coaching sessions
Behavioral: Professional Coaching
6 individualized professional coaching sessions via phone

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Burnout
Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months
Change in self-reported Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Score using a scale of never, a few times a year or less, once a month or less, a few times a month, once a week, a few times a week, every day
Baseline, 6 months
Job Satisfaction
Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months
Change in self-reported Physician Job Satisfaction Scale score using a scale of 1=very strongly disagree to 5= very strongly agree
Baseline, 6 months
Professional Fulfillment
Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months
Change in the self-reported Empowerment at Work Scale score using a scale of 1=very strongly disagree to 7=very strongly agree
Baseline, 6 months

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Mayo Clinic

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Liselotte N Dyrbye, MD, Mayo Clinic

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.

Helpful Links

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)

January 15, 2020

Primary Completion (ACTUAL)

October 30, 2020

Study Completion (ACTUAL)

June 15, 2021

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

January 17, 2020

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 17, 2020

First Posted (ACTUAL)

January 22, 2020

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)

June 16, 2021

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 15, 2021

Last Verified

June 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 19-011708

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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.

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