Mindfulness in Medical Training (MiMT)

University of Arizona

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Mindfulness, Burnout, Anxiety, Sleep

Treatments: Device: Headspace

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05605041

STUDY00000063

Details and patient eligibility

About

Headspace, a smartphone application that provides guided meditation, mindfulness and sleep exercises, will be used as the intervention in improving sleep, anxiety, depression and burnout in all participating individuals selected from the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson residents and fellows.

Full description

The intervention of of daily meditation with the Headspace application will be used to determine if this is a possible effective intervention for decreasing the feeling of burnout. It is being proposed that it could improve the subjects' well-being both in the short-term and long term. The primary outcomes will be burnout, anxiety, depression and sleep. This study will use the Maslach Burnout Inventory to assess baseline burnout, as well as at 30 and 90 days post-intervention period. Sleep and anxiety and depression will be assessed using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) scores at the same intervals.

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• University of Arizona resident or fellow

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Did Not Use Headspace

No Intervention group

Description:

Those that did not use headspace during the time the study is conducted

Did Use Headspace

Experimental group

Description:

Those that were randomized into the group and used Headspace at least once during the study period

Treatment:

Device: Headspace