Mindfulness for Burnout Prevention in Primary Care Providers (Mind-Care)

Centro Mente Aberta de Mindfulness

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burnout, Professional

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness 2 weeks; Behavioral: Mindfulness 8 weeks

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02897284

CMAMindfulness

Details and patient eligibility

About

Burnout Syndrome is one of the major challenges for health systems worldwide. This study strives to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of an 8- versus 2-week mindfulness-based self-care program on burnout symptoms and psychological and biological variables.

Full description

The development of stepped-care interventions allows for the development of new strategies within mindfulness-based approaches, classically described as a weekly two-hour commitment which lasts eight weeks. Such approaches might reach larger and stratified groups, more suitable for usage in Brazilian health-system context. For such evaluations, the investigators will use a 3-arms randomized clinical trial design, with Sociodemographic and Labor variables, such as age, sex, number of offspring, adherence to the program, adherence to the mindfulness practices, Burnout Clinical Subtype Questionnaire -(BCSQ-36), Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI-GS), Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory adapted for Brazil (FMI-Br-13), Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-Br). DNA methylation will be measured by Methylase-reaction, and BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) will be quantified by ELISA-sandwich. The primary outcome will be the effectiveness of such programs on different clinical subtypes of Burnout symptoms (frenetic, under challenged and worn-out). The secondary outcome will be mindfulness levels, and adherence to the program and to the mindfulness practice, and on inflammation and epigenetic variables.

Enrollment: 400 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Active Primary Care Providers

Exclusion criteria

• Acute disease (physical or mental)
• Schizophrenia or other psychotic symptoms
• Concomitant use of medication causing attentional, cognitive or concentration impairments
• Having practiced mindfulness or other contemplative techniques in the previous 12 months of the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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400 participants in 3 patient groups

Mindfulness 8 weeks

Experimental group

Description:

Mindfulness-based intervention with 8 weekly sessions

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness 8 weeks

Mindfulness 2 weeks

Active Comparator group

Description:

Mindfulness-based intervention with 2 weekly sessions

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness 2 weeks

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

waiting list