Mindfulness in Medical Training

NCT ID: NCT05605041

Last Updated: 2025-08-03

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: WITHDRAWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-12-31
• Study Completion Date: 2023-02-28

Brief Summary

Headspace, a smartphone application that provides guided meditation, mindfulness and sleep exercises, will be used as the intervention in improving sleep, anxiety, depression and burnout in all participating individuals selected from the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson residents and fellows.

Detailed Description

The intervention of of daily meditation with the Headspace application will be used to determine if this is a possible effective intervention for decreasing the feeling of burnout. It is being proposed that it could improve the subjects' well-being both in the short-term and long term. The primary outcomes will be burnout, anxiety, depression and sleep. This study will use the Maslach Burnout Inventory to assess baseline burnout, as well as at 30 and 90 days post-intervention period. Sleep and anxiety and depression will be assessed using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) scores at the same intervals.

Conditions

Mindfulness, Burnout, Anxiety, Sleep

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Did Not Use Headspace

Those that did not use headspace during the time the study is conducted

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Did Use Headspace

Those that were randomized into the group and used Headspace at least once during the study period

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Headspace

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Headspace is an app that allows users to practice mindfulness through guided meditation

Interventions

Headspace

Headspace is an app that allows users to practice mindfulness through guided meditation

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• University of Arizona resident or fellow

Exclusion Criteria

• none

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Arizona

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Other Identifiers

STUDY00000063

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id