Improvement Mental Health Among Physicians by a Mindfulness-training Mobile Application

Rambam Health Care Campus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stress

Treatments: Other: practiced mindfulness through the application for 6 weeks

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05699382

0150-20-RMB

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of our study was to evaluate the effect of a short, smartphone-based mindfulness application on stress, wellbeing and burnout among hospital physicians

Full description

Physicians working at a tertiary hospital were recruited and randomly divided into two groups, a study group (SG) in which participants practiced mindfulness through the application for 6 weeks and a control group (CG). Main Measures: All participants filled-out questionnaires assessing stress (Perceived Stress Scale-PSS), mental health (Mental Health Inventory-MHI) and burnout (Maslach Burnout Inventory-MBI) at baseline and 7 weeks later

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Physicians Working full-time at the Rambam Healthcare Campus.

Exclusion criteria

* Physicians that won't be able to participate in at least 50% of the practicing.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

a study group (SG) in which participants practiced mindfulness through the application for 6 weeks

Active Comparator group

Description:

a study group (SG) in which participants practiced mindfulness through the application for 6 weeks

Treatment:

Other: practiced mindfulness through the application for 6 weeks

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Waiting for the intervention