Smartwatch and Physician Well-Being

Smartwatch and Physician Well-being: Are Wearables Part of the Solution?

The prevalence of burnout and other forms of distress among physicians is alarmingly high. This clinical trial is being conducted to learn more about if wearing a Smartwatch and having access to its data improves physicians' sense of well-being and if data measured from Smartwatches contain a 'signal' that predicts well-being

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Professional Burnout
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: Smartwatch

Detailed Description

We will conduct a randomized controlled trail to evaluate if wearing a Smartwatch improves overall well-being among physicians, and if so, in which dimension of well-being (e.g., fatigue, stress, overall quality of life, burnout). Additionally, we will explore if data from Smartwatches can predict subsequent well-being among physicians.

Study Aims:

1. To determine if wearing a Smartwatch and having access to its physiological data (e.g., sleep, step count, activity, breathing reminders) improves well-being, and if so which well-being dimensions.
2. To determine whether continuous physiological measures (measured from Smartwatches) contain a 'signal' that predicts physician well-being, and if so in which dimensions.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 184
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Lotte Dyrbye, MD MHPE; Phone Number: 3037244982; Email: liselotte.dyrbye@cuanschutz.edu

Study Locations

• United States
  • Colorado
    • Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
      • Recruiting
      • Lotte Dyrbye
      • Contact: Lotte N Dyrbye, MD; Email: liselotte.dyrbye@cuanschutz.edu

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 20 years to 80 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Physician

Exclusion Criteria:

• non physicians

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Crossover Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Smart Watch, then no intervention; Physicians will be asked to wear a Smartwatch for 6 months, and then will be monitored for the following 6 months without wearing a Smartwatch. Physicians will complete surveys about their experiences	Device: Smartwatch; Wearing a smartwatch and having access to its data
Experimental: No intervention, then Smart Watch; Physicians will be monitored for the first 6 months without wearing a Smartwatch, and then will be asked to wear a Smartwatch for the following 6 months. Physicians will complete surveys about their experiences	Device: Smartwatch; Wearing a smartwatch and having access to its data

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Burnout	The Maslach Burnout Inventory measures emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and low sense of personal accomplishment. Possible scores range from 0-27 (emotional exhaustion subscale), 0-10 (depersonalization subscale), and 0-40 (personal accomplishment subscale). Higher scores on the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization subscales and lower scores on the personal accomplishment subscale indicates worse outcome.	Up to 12 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Physician Well-Being Index	The Physician Well-Being Index measures multiple dimensions of distress (burnout, fatigue, quality of life, stress) and satisfaction with work-life integration and meaning in work. The total score ranges from -2 to 9, with higher scores indicating a greater degree of distress, lower meaning in work, and less satisfaction with work-life integration.	Up to 12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver
• Collaborators: Mayo Clinic; Physicians Foundation
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Liselotte N Dyrbye, MD MHPE, University of Colorado School of Medicine

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 1, 2023
• Primary Completion (Estimated): May 1, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): May 1, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 14, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 14, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): July 18, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): December 6, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 4, 2023
• Last Verified: December 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Behavioral Symptoms; Stress, Psychological; Occupational Stress; Occupational Diseases; Burnout, Psychological; Burnout, Professional
• Other Study ID Numbers: 22-0799

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
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No