Resident Well-being and Performance

NCT ID: NCT06149156

Last Updated: 2025-05-01

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

508 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-02-21

Study Completion Date

2024-12-01

Brief Summary

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This project aims to investigate the effectiveness of a meditation intervention utilizing a smart phone-based meditation app on resident burnout, well-being, and performance self-efficacy in a randomized clinical trial. 500 participants will be enrolled for a 4 week intervention.

Detailed Description

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Burnout is an increasingly prevalent challenge in the medical field and especially prominent in residency. Burnout negatively affects learning and decision-making, physician performance, and patient outcomes. Studies have shown that mindfulness-based interventions are effective at reducing burnout and strengthening well-being in physicians. Furthermore, mobile health mindfulness-based interventions have similar benefits to in-person interventions while offering the advantages of increased scalability, lack of physical constraint, and lower costs. This project will use a novel mobile health MBI and measure resident burnout, well-being, and self-efficacy in performance.

Conditions

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Burnout, Psychological

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Healthy Minds Program (HMP) intervention

Participants will receive access to the 4-week HMP Foundations module. The HMP app is a meditation-based smartphone app designed to promote and protect psychological well-being through sustainable skills training. The program is grounded in constituents of psychological well-being identified in empirical literature. HMP provides core content, with instruction administered through a curriculum of guided practices. HMP is based on research on eudaimonic well-being (e.g., environmental mastery, purpose) and brain-based skills that underlie these qualities (e.g., regulation of attention, mental flexibility). The full HMP has guided audio practices that address 4 constituents of well-being: awareness, connection, insight, and purpose. At post-treatment, participants will be given access to additional HMP content to support their continued practice.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Healthy Minds Program App

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The four-week intervention comprises two introductory lessons and guided meditations followed by one week of content for each pillar of well-being. Each week includes two brief lessons (5-7 minutes) with education on the scientific research behind the practices, as well as examples of how to strengthen the skills of each pillar in daily life, along with three guided meditations for which the participant can select the practice length (5-30 minutes).

Waitlist Control

Participants will receive a list of well-being resources. They will be given access to HMP at the end of the study.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Well-being Resources

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

List of well-being resources that comprises of online video links and books

Interventions

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Healthy Minds Program App

The four-week intervention comprises two introductory lessons and guided meditations followed by one week of content for each pillar of well-being. Each week includes two brief lessons (5-7 minutes) with education on the scientific research behind the practices, as well as examples of how to strengthen the skills of each pillar in daily life, along with three guided meditations for which the participant can select the practice length (5-30 minutes).

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Well-being Resources

List of well-being resources that comprises of online video links and books

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Resident in a high burnout rate specialty: family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, emergency medicine, general surgery, or surgical sub-specialty (plastic surgery, urology, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, vascular surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, otolaryngology, ophthalmology)

Exclusion Criteria

* Participants who have previously used the HMP (a version of HMP has been freely available to the public since 2020)
* Participants who have been practicing meditation daily or almost daily for the prior six months
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Wisconsin, Madison

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Simon Goldberg

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Locations

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University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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2023-1432

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

A171600

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

IRB Approval 2/9/2024

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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