Effect of Physician Peer Coaching on Burnout in Hospital-Based Physicians: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial

Geisinger Health

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Burn Out

Treatments: Behavioral: Delayed Physician Led Professional Coaching; Behavioral: Physician Led Professional Coaching

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05251675

2022-0144

Details and patient eligibility

About

The prevalence of burnout symptoms among physicians is high, especially for acute care physicians. Physician burn out is a long-term stress reaction marked by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a lack of sense of personal accomplishment. The healthcare environment, due to its demanding pace and emotional intensity, puts physicians at high risk for burnout.

Full description

Physician-Led Professional Coaching is a one-on-one intervention between a physician coach and an individual physician that is systematic, collaborative, future-focused, goal-oriented and is meant to help coaches attain valued professional or personal development. The trial will be conducted with 25 participants in an intervention cohort and 25 participants in a control. The intervention cohort will receive 6 individual coaching sessions over 6 months. Coaching sessions will use the CHEER acronym for conducting the coaching sessions: Celebrate, Hear, Executive coaching, Engage, and Recharge. The control group will be eligible for coaching sessions after the completing of the interventional arm. Physicians randomized to the control arm will be offered the same individualized coaching sessions as those that were in the intervention group. Te Maslach Burnout Inventory survey will be used to measure burnout and will be collected at baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months. The physician coach will be blinded to all survey data as it is being collected.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 89 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Geisinger Physician
• Practicing medicine at least 6 months in the Geisinger system

Exclusion criteria

• Currently seeking professional coaching sessions
• Planning to leave the Geisinger system within 1 year

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Coaching Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

This arm will receive physician led coaching during the first 6 months of the study.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Physician Led Professional Coaching

Non-Coached Group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

This arm will not receive physician led coaching until after the Coaching Group is finished with their coaching.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Delayed Physician Led Professional Coaching