Occupational Distress in Doctors: The Effect of an Induction Programme

NCT ID: NCT02838290

Last Updated: 2017-01-31

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

232 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-07-31

Study Completion Date

2016-11-30

Brief Summary

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Background: Over 39% of approximately 3,000 doctors (The British Medical Association quarterly survey, 2015) admitted to frequently feeling drained, exhausted, overloaded, tired, low and lacking energy. Such occupational distress may link to psychological and physical difficulties in doctors and have negative outcomes for organization and patients. The aim of the current study is to investigate the impact of an induction programme on occupational distress of doctors.

Methods/design: Doctors will be invited to take part in an online research. Participants will be randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. Participants in the experimental groups will complete one of the induction topics (about stress at work). Before and after an induction programme participants will be asked to fill in an online survey about their current occupational distress and organizational well-being.

Discussion: The investigators expect that doctors' psychological, physiological and organizational well-being will improve after an induction programme which should serve as a resource for better doctor's own health understanding.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Burnout, Professional Anxiety Grief Adaptation, Psychological Eating Behavior Alcohol Drinking Drug Use

Keywords

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Burnout Psychiatric morbidity Anxiety Grief Alcohol and drug use

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Induction

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Induction

Intervention Type OTHER

Participants will be randomly assigned (computer generated straight away after clicking the link to the research) to one of 4 experimental conditions: stress at work, dealing with a patient's death, managing stress at work or all topics together. Each module includes brief reflection parts and quizzes. Participants will be asked to fill in an online survey just before the induction and a week after. The survey is about current occupational distress and organizational factors.

Control group

Group Type OTHER

Control group

Intervention Type OTHER

Participants in the control group will be asked to fill in an online survey, but will not have any task at time-1. However, participants in the control group will be invited to complete induction programme after time-2 (a week time after time-1) in ensure the same expectations in both, experimental and control, groups.

Interventions

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Induction

Participants will be randomly assigned (computer generated straight away after clicking the link to the research) to one of 4 experimental conditions: stress at work, dealing with a patient's death, managing stress at work or all topics together. Each module includes brief reflection parts and quizzes. Participants will be asked to fill in an online survey just before the induction and a week after. The survey is about current occupational distress and organizational factors.

Intervention Type OTHER

Control group

Participants in the control group will be asked to fill in an online survey, but will not have any task at time-1. However, participants in the control group will be invited to complete induction programme after time-2 (a week time after time-1) in ensure the same expectations in both, experimental and control, groups.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Medical doctors across all specialties and professional grades who have a regular contact with patients and works in the United Kingdom.
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Birkbeck, University of London

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Asta Medisauskaite

Doctoral Researcher

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

References

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Medisauskaite A, Kamau C. Does occupational distress raise the risk of alcohol use, binge-eating, ill health and sleep problems among medical doctors? A UK cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 2019 May 15;9(5):e027362. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027362.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 31092661 (View on PubMed)

Medisauskaite A, Kamau C. Reducing burnout and anxiety among doctors: Randomized controlled trial. Psychiatry Res. 2019 Apr;274:383-390. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2019.02.075. Epub 2019 Mar 1.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 30852432 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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01N/A

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id