Mindfulness in Medical Training (MiMT)

Mindfulness in Medical Training: Using Headspace to Improve Sleep, Anxiety, and Burnout Among Resident Physicians

Headspace, a smartphone application that provides guided meditation, mindfulness and sleep exercises, will be used as the intervention in improving sleep, anxiety, depression and burnout in all participating individuals selected from the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson residents and fellows.

Study Overview

• Status: Withdrawn
• Conditions: Mindfulness, Burnout, Anxiety, Sleep
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: Headspace

Detailed Description

The intervention of of daily meditation with the Headspace application will be used to determine if this is a possible effective intervention for decreasing the feeling of burnout. It is being proposed that it could improve the subjects' well-being both in the short-term and long term. The primary outcomes will be burnout, anxiety, depression and sleep. This study will use the Maslach Burnout Inventory to assess baseline burnout, as well as at 30 and 90 days post-intervention period. Sleep and anxiety and depression will be assessed using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) scores at the same intervals.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• University of Arizona resident or fellow

Exclusion Criteria:

• none

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Did Not Use Headspace; Those that did not use headspace during the time the study is conducted
Experimental: Did Use Headspace; Those that were randomized into the group and used Headspace at least once during the study period	Device: Headspace; Headspace is an app that allows users to practice mindfulness through guided meditation

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
The Effects on Burnout	The intervention group will be asked to fill out the Maslachs Burnout Inventory (MBI) survey prior to intervention starting, 30 days after start of intervention and then again at 90 days after start of intervention). the MBI is a measure of three independent constructs - emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment. Lower scores will indicate less of an impact on those constructs. Higher scores indicate a stronger impact on those constructs. A score for emotional exhaustion includes anything <27, a low score is 0-18. For Depersonalisation a high score is anything >10 and a low score is 0-5. For Personal accomplishment a high score is 0-33 and low score is anything >40	30-90 days
The Effects on Sleep	The intervention group will be asked to fill out the Epworth Sleepiness Scale survey prior to intervention starting, 30 days after start of intervention and then again at 90 days after start of intervention). The scores will be analyzed to determine impact on sleep. Lower scores indicate a normal range of sleepiness, higher scores (18-24) will be indicative of severe sleepiness. Lower scores of 0-10 will be indicative of a normal range of sleepiness in healthy adults.	30-90 days
The effects on Anxiety and Depression	The intervention group will be asked to fill out the GAD-7 (Generalized Anxiety Disorder) questionnaire prior to intervention starting, 30 days after start of intervention and then again at 90 days after start of intervention. The scores will be analyzed to determine impact on anxiety and depression. Lower versus higher scores will be proportional to how much anxiety and depression that person is facing. A score of 0-4 is indicative of minimal anxiety and a score of > 15 is indicative of severe anxiety.	30-90 days

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Arizona

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Estimated): December 1, 2022
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 1, 2022
• Study Completion (Estimated): February 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 1, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 1, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): November 4, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 3, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 30, 2025
• Last Verified: July 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Behavioral Symptoms; Stress, Psychological; Burnout, Psychological
• Other Study ID Numbers: STUDY00000063

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES

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