The Effect of Mindfulness Meditation

Gulhane Training and Research Hospital

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Compassion Fatigue; Psychological Well-Being; Burnout

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness Meditation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06282913

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Details and patient eligibility

About

Cancer is a disease that causes the most deaths worldwide and is challenging for patients and caregivers both physically and psychosocially. Physicians and nurses working in oncology clinics perform a demanding profession providing compassionate care and treatment to patients struggling with life-threatening diseases. The emotional cost of caring for patients diagnosed with cancer can lead to compassion fatigue, burnout, and decreased psychological well-being among healthcare professionals. For this reason, this research is planned as a randomized controlled study to examine the effect of Mindfulness meditation practice on compassion fatigue, burnout, and psychological well-being in physicians and nurses working in oncology units.

Enrollment: 64 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Actively working in oncology clinics
• At least 1 year of working experience in an oncology clinic
• Not having a physical/mental/psychological disorder that would prevent participation in the research.
• Oncology nurses with a high school, undergraduate, associate or graduate degree in nursing
• Physicians and nurses who volunteer to participate in the research will be included in the research sample.

Exclusion criteria

• Physicians and nurses who have been diagnosed with a psychological disease in the last two years and are continuing their medical treatment • Physicians and nurses who did not agree to participate in the research

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness Meditation Group

Experimental group

Description:

During the first meeting, before the planned training, data will be collected face to face using the personal information form, Compassion Fatigue Brief Scale, Maslach Burnout Scale, Psychological Well-Being Scale. Physicians and nurses in the intervention group were given group counseling sessions by the researcher, in groups of 10-15 people, for 20 minutes once a week for 8 weeks. An online meditation practice will be provided for a long time. At the end of the mindfulness meditation application (in the 8th week) and four weeks after the end of the application (in the 12th week) for follow-up purposes, data will be collected through an online survey for physicians and nurses using Compassion Fatigue Brief Scale, Maslach Burnout Scale, Psychological Well-Being Scale.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness Meditation

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

During the first meeting, data will be collected face to face using the personal information form, MY-KÖ, MTÖ and PİÖÖ. In the 8th and 12th weeks of the research, the data will be re-administered to the physicians and nurses in the control group via an online survey using Compassion Fatigue Brief Scale, Maslach Burnout Scale, Psychological Well-Being Scale. After the implementation process of the research is completed, mindfulness meditation application will be applied online once to the physicians and nurses in the control group.