Burnout Preventions, Professionalism Heightening, and Enhancing Resiliency (BUPHER)

michal roll

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Burnout, Professional; Professional-Patient Relations

Treatments: Other: Preventing Professionals burnout

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02963792

TASMC-16-GL-0426-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Due to their difficult and stressful work surgeons are under continuous physical and mental stress exposing them to increased risk for burnout and lack of professionalism. The present intervention focuses on providing time and a safe space to debrief and explore personal and group experiences and dilemmas, as well as acquire coping skills related to burnout, communication and professionalism.

Enrollment: 1,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All physicians (residents and experts) of the Surgical Division at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
• All medical students studying at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, and attending a surgery round at the Surgical Division at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
• Patients (and/or family members) in the Surgical Division at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center following their surgery.

Exclusion criteria

• The research will not include children and/or judgment-impaired patients;
• population not met by inclusion criteria;
• non-Hebrew speaking patients;
• ventilated patients;
• patients in surgical intensive care;
• patients medically defined as suffering from clouding of conscious or delirium;
• subjects who decided to stop their participation in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Structured group intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Experimental: Structured group intervention a 'structured' intervention, leaning mostly on tools designed to prevent burnout and promote resilience, including predetermined exercises and topics as discussion goals in each meeting. Fidelity will be checked and monitored at the end of each meeting, when facilitators fill out a form that summarizes the content, topics and coping skills acquired in each session.

Treatment:

Other: Preventing Professionals burnout

Semi-Structured group intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Experimental: Semi-Structured group intervention a 'semi-structured' intervention, based on tools for developing an emotional discourse, building a supporting team and self reflection. The 'semi-structured' intervention offers predetermined contents that are discussed through the stories and needs presented by group members. Fidelity will be checked and monitored at the end of each meeting, when facilitators fill out a form that summarizes the content, topics and coping skills acquired in each session.

Treatment:

Other: Preventing Professionals burnout