Mindfulness Rounds Initiative - A Short Mindfulness-Based Program for A Busy Workplace

NCT ID: NCT04282733

Last Updated: 2024-02-01

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: TERMINATED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 34 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-03-18
• Study Completion Date: 2021-05-12

Brief Summary

An 8 week course of mindfulness education and practices will be presented to all staff, patients, and visitors voluntarily attending the thrice weekly presentations. The goal is to reduce staff stress, improve communication, enhance patient satisfaction, and improve quality of care.

Detailed Description

"Mindfulness Rounds" Care-giver well-being is recognized as an important goal in decreasing burnout, increasing job satisfaction, and may have implications in improving quality of care and patient satisfaction. Mindfulness training is a well-studied tool used to enhance care-giver well-being. The impact of a Mindfulness training experience for caregivers, support staff, and patients and their families working together in a hospital unit on patient satisfaction has not been well studied, if at all. The researchers propose instituting a pilot program of Mindfulness Rounds on a given hospital unit and assessing the effect on employee well-being, patient satisfaction, and quality of care.

Introduction:

The physical and mental health of healthcare practitioners (HCPs) has become an area of attention and research in recent years as HCP burnout and suicide are now openly discussed concerns in medicine. Well-being education is now a required curricula component by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Mindfulness is a technique and philosophical concept which has received significant attention in the medical literature as a tool for increasing HCP well-being.

Mindfulness describes the idea of maintaining a conscious presence in the present, of avoiding obsessing about the past or the future, and of continuously being aware of, and grateful for, the things we have in life as opposed to the things we don't. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is one particular system, developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn over 30 years ago, which has been built into a well-structured certified training program for teaching mindfulness. Numerous studies have used MBSR or similar techniques to advance HCP psychologic well-being, and while some have investigated a variety of HCP training techniques to improve the patient experience, few have sought to explore a relationship between the impact of mindfulness training for HCP on patient satisfaction, quality of care outcomes, and HCP overall health. To the investigators' knowledge, no one has sought to bring mindfulness education to an entire hospital unit - physicians, nurses, support staff, as well as patients and their families wherever possible - with the goal of improving both HCP and the overall patient experience.

The researchers propose instituting a pilot program of Mindfulness Rounds on a given hospital unit and assessing the effect on employee well-being, patient satisfaction, and quality of care.

Conditions

Healthcare Practitioner Stress; Patient Satisfaction

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Mindfulness Rounds

Participants will be exposed to thrice weekly Mindfulness Rounds education on the Unit; participation in the actual sessions is voluntary.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Mindfulness Rounds

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Throughout the 8-week study period, a different mindfulness practice will be introduced weekly in 3 separate 15-minute live sessions. Posters describing the particular "practice of the week" will be placed around the Unit as visual reminders to encourage actual practice.

Control

No intervention will take place on this Unit

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Mindfulness Rounds

Throughout the 8-week study period, a different mindfulness practice will be introduced weekly in 3 separate 15-minute live sessions. Posters describing the particular "practice of the week" will be placed around the Unit as visual reminders to encourage actual practice.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Employees on the Units

Exclusion Criteria

• none

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Jeffrey Zahn

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Jeffrey Zahn, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Locations

Mount Sinai Hospital

New York, New York, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

GCO 19-1849

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id