Mindfulness for Medical Students

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burnout, Professional; Mindfulness

Treatments: Behavioral: mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03614390

CUHK-mind

Details and patient eligibility

About

Burnout is common among medical students. Previous studies had shown that mindfulness based interventions may improve burnout and quality of life in medical students. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is one of the most often used mindfulness based interventions.

Medical students in the Chinese University of Hong Kong are invited to a MBCT on voluntary basis. They will be asked to fill in questionnaire that measures burnout, depression/anxiety, quality of life, and mindfulness at beginning and end of the MBCT. The pre-group and post-group data will be compared and analysed

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Medical students studying in Chinese University of Hong Kong

Exclusion criteria

• The investigators did not set any exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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24 participants in 1 patient group

MBCT group

Other group

Description:

There is only 1 arm in the study. The MBCT will be conducted according to the treatment manual. The program consists of eight weekly sessions. In between sessions, participants are advised to practice mindfulness meditations for 40-50 minutes every day. The teachers of the program will teach on voluntary basis. The teachers must have attended the 1-year foundation course to teach mindfulness (available in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong), regular mindfulness practice and must have at least yearly mindfulness retreat. This is in accordance to the good practice guidelines developed in the UK for mindfulness teachers

Treatment:

Behavioral: mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT)