Effect of Four-Week Wellness Program on Work Engagement Burnout and Sleep in a Healthcare Organization (WEBS)

WellSpan Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burnout; Work Engagement; Sleep

Treatments: Other: Heartfulness Meditation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06779526

[2126338-4]

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if having a 4-week heartfulness meditation program in a healthcare organization would

1. decrease burnout
2. improve sleep and work engagement.

Researchers will compare : intervention group : participating in 4 weeks of Heartfulness Meditation with control group: receiving no intervention

Responses to the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES), Bergen Insomnia Scale (BIS) and two burnout questions will be compared between the study groups at the beginning and end of the intervention period.

Full description

The study is an 8-week single-center prospective, randomized, crossover study among healthcare workers in the WellSpan Health System. All participants were asked to answer two demographic questions and responses to the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES), and Bergen Insomnia Scale (BIS), two burnout questions were requested for a baseline. Participants were randomized to two groups. One of the groups would undergo the intervention first, which comprised receiving an orientation session regarding the study, attending at least once weekly didactic sessions on Zoom, and participating in morning and evening meditation for ten to fifteen minutes daily. The duration of the intervention period was four weeks. During this time, the control group would not be undergoing any intervention. After four weeks, both groups completed the original questionnaire again followed by a 2 week washout period. This was followed by a crossover, allowing the second group to undergo the intervention for four weeks. After four weeks, the final survey was sent to all participants again.

Enrollment: 117 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age above 18 and willing to participate
• Able to understand the English language as the instructions were in English

Exclusion criteria

• Not able to understand English language

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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117 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Arm

Experimental group

Description:

Comprised of receiving an orientation session regarding the study, attending at least once weekly didactic sessions on Zoom and participating in morning and evening meditation for ten to fifteen minutes daily. A weekly, live online session for 4 weeks consists of 30 minutes of didactics, comprising of a 10 minute introductory talk on a module of meditation, followed by 20 minutes of guided meditation. Participants provided with materials such as guided audio clips to independently follow heartfulness practices (meditation, rejuvenation, and bed-time relaxation) for 20 minutes each day for 4 weeks: 10 minutes Heartfulness meditation in the morning and 10 minutes in the evening before sleeping Email reminders were sent weekly containing audio recordings for guided meditation sessions. All study activities were virtual.

Treatment:

Other: Heartfulness Meditation

Control arm

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group would not be undergoing any intervention.