Art Therapy to Promote Wellbeing and Self-care in Resident Physicians. (ATMIR)

Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Work-Related Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Art therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05654376

IIBSP-ART-2022-21

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates if an art therapy intervention could lower resident physician's work-related stress and if it could promote their self-care.

Full description

The objective of this study is to determine if an art therapy intervention could promote the well-being of resident physicians of an university tertiary hospital, as specialized physicians trainees exposed to the risk of burnout.

Using a cycle of 6 bimonthly sessions of group art therapy, the intervention stimulates the creative activity of the participants through various art materials and techniques. Next, they are invited to share their reflexions about the artworks produced, with the group and in presence of the art therapist.

The study mainly evaluates the work-related stress and the self-care grade of the participants, before the intervention, just after it and after a follow-up period.

Enrollment: 43 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 23+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• belonging to the resident physicians collective of the Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital.

Exclusion criteria

• being with a diagnostic of major depression
• receiving psychotherapy o similar

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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43 participants in 1 patient group

Group art therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Cycle of 6 2-hours bimonthly group art therapy sessions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Art therapy