Resident Observed Burnout After Daily Supplementation With Coffee (ROBSTA)

NYU Langone Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burnout, Professional

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Daily Supplementation with Coffee

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03355144

17-01011

Details and patient eligibility

About

Coffee drinking is frequently reported as a negative outcome in studies on burnout, but the effect of an increased coffee intake on resident burnout has not been reported in the literature. This study is a prospective, interventional cohort study enrolling up to 50 residents from the Internal Medicine Residency Program to look at the relationship between coffee and resident burnout.

Full description

Resident burnout is increasingly being recognized as detrimental to both physician well being and patient care. It has been linked to an increased rate of medical errors and a reduced quality of patient care. In addition, there have been multiple high-profile physician suicides in the past years. This has resulted in a renewed focus on physician mental health and workload.

Enrollment: 39 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• A resident in the NYU Internal Medicine residency program

Exclusion criteria

• Allergy or intolerance to coffee or caffeine
• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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39 participants in 1 patient group

Internal Medicine residents at NYU

Experimental group

Description:

effect of supplying Internal Medicine residents at NYU with free coffee on self reported features of psychological health, energy and burnout

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Daily Supplementation with Coffee