Unwinding Physician Anxiety

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burnout, Professional; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: App-based mindfulness training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04137081

H00014985

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test an app-based mindfulness training program to see if it can reduce anxiety and burnout in physicians.

Full description

In this study, 50 clinicians will be provided access to the Unwinding Anxiety program. The intervention period will last 3 months and changes in anxiety and burnout along with program engagement will be assessed at baseline, 1 month, and 3 months.

Enrollment: 57 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Currently employed as a physician

• Direct patient interaction

• Owns a smartphone

• Endorsed anxiety based on answering yes to following questions:

  1. Do you feel nervous, anxious, or on edge?
  2. Do you feel you worry too much about different things?

• Endorsed willingness to use smartphone app for 10+ minutes/day for 30 days

• Endorsed willingness to complete online surveys

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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57 participants in 1 patient group

App-based mindfulness training

Experimental group

Description:

The Unwinding Anxiety program is delivered via a smartphone-based platform, which includes a progression through 30+ daily modules of brief didactic and experience-based mindfulness training (videos and animations), app-triggered check-ins to encourage engagement, and user-initiated guided mindfulness exercises to help disrupt worry cycles in the moment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: App-based mindfulness training