Mindfulness Training for Medical Personnel

University of Miami

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burnout, Professional; Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Self-Practice; Behavioral: Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI); Behavioral: Mindfulness Booster Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03514862

20180138

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this project, the investigators propose to evaluate the impact of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) Program on the well-being of University of Miami (UM) clinicians and faculty/staff. If successfully implemented and proven to be effective, this training program may be disseminated to other interested medical personnel.

Enrollment: 74 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Medical faculty, fellows, residents, and other allied healthcare providers at UM Miller School of Medicine and Jackson will be eligible for participation in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Those not falling into inclusion criteria.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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74 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will participate in 4 weeks of the Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) and then will be invited to continue to participate in 4 additional Mindfulness Booster Training.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness Booster Training

Behavioral: Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI)

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will participate in 4 weeks of the Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) and then continue to Self-Practice for 4 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness Booster Training

Behavioral: Self-Practice