Mindfulness Training for Staff (MTS)

NCT ID: NCT01082497

Last Updated: 2012-04-12

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: EARLY_PHASE1
• Total Enrollment: 53 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2009-05-31
• Study Completion Date: 2011-01-31

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a mindfulness based 8-week course for stress reduction, known as MBSR course, given to all staff at an inpatient psychiatric ward influences the level of stress and burnout and the psychosocial atmosphere at the ward.

The design is an intervention trial with repeated measures and control group.The focus is the interaction between unit and individuals.

All staff at both wards were invited to participate. The intervention consists of 8 weekly group meetings where the participants learn different ways of practicing mindfulness and do home practice between the meetings. The control intervention is 8 weekly workshops in affect-consciousness.

Data are collected through self-reporting questionnaires on mindfulness, work- and health-related topics at six different points. The patients at both wards answers one questionnaire about ward atmosphere at the same points.

Data wil be analyzed on SPSS statistic programme.

Detailed Description

MBSR for staff in inpatient psychiatric units

The challenges for staff working at an inpatient unit for psychotic people are many, and still more where the patients also have addiction problems. The patients are seriously ill and in need of extensive support and treatment. It is needed for the staff to be continuously aware and present, stand all kind of situations and hold out (contain) a lot of critique and threatening from the patients. Often they are too exhausted to take care of themselves and their own stress. The risk for burnout is high. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a mindfulness based 8-week course for stress reduction, known as MBSR course, given to all staff at an inpatient psychiatric ward influences the psychosocial atmosphere at the ward.

The design of the study is an intervention trial with repeated measures and control group. The intervention consists of 8 weekly group meetings where the participants learn different ways of practicing mindfulness; sitting, walking, yoga exercises,and body scan.They are asked to practice between the group-meetings and get a workbook and cds as support.

This is a prospective intervention study with control group and repeated measures over one year follow up. The focus is the interaction between unit and individuals.

To more closely study the specific effect of mindfulness practice the control group receive an active intervention which has similarities to mindfulness practice: workshops in affect - consciousness of same amount as the MBSR-course.

All staff at the research unit and the control unit were invited to participate, each group has a number of 25 - 30 individuals. Data are collected through self-reporting questionnaires at six different points. The patients answers one questionnaire at the same points.

The inventories chosen are:

Demographics Quality of life Subjective health complains Five Facets Mindfulness Questioner (Baer) Maslach Burnout Inventory Work satisfaction Total Work load - short form Ward-atmosphere scale (also for the patients) Sick leave and number of registered harm /injury- episodes will be taken on 3 -4 points.

Hopefully this study will show that when the staff practice mindfulness this will bring about a more relaxed and accepting atmosphere followed by lesser exhaustion and anxiety. Consequences should be that mindfulness practise becomes more ordinary in psychiatric hospital wards.

Conditions

Stress

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Mindfulness

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Mindfulness training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

A course in mindfulness based stress reduction with 8 weekly group meetings and home practice between the meetings. Each meetings last for 90 minutes. Participants get workbook and cds to support home practice.

Education

8 - weekly workshops on affect consciousness for all staff

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Mindfulness training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

A course in mindfulness based stress reduction with 8 weekly group meetings and home practice between the meetings. Each meetings last for 90 minutes. Participants get workbook and cds to support home practice.

Interventions

Mindfulness training

A course in mindfulness based stress reduction with 8 weekly group meetings and home practice between the meetings. Each meetings last for 90 minutes. Participants get workbook and cds to support home practice.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

MBSR

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• all staff working at the ward 50 % or more, not attending to leave during the first year.

Exclusion Criteria

• Staff working less than 50%, planned to leave before one year.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 70 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University Hospital of North Norway

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Tordis Sorensen Hoifodt, dr med. phd

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

University Hospital of North Norway

Locations

University Hospital of North-Norway

Tromsø, Troms, Norway

Countries

Norway

Other Identifiers

P REK NORD-134/2008

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id