Effect of Four-Week Wellness Program on Work Engagement Burnout and Sleep in a Healthcare Organization (WEBS)

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

117 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-05-08

Study Completion Date

2024-08-31

Brief Summary

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The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if having a 4-week heartfulness meditation program in a healthcare organization would

1. decrease burnout
2. improve sleep and work engagement.

Researchers will compare : intervention group : participating in 4 weeks of Heartfulness Meditation with control group: receiving no intervention

Responses to the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES), Bergen Insomnia Scale (BIS) and two burnout questions will be compared between the study groups at the beginning and end of the intervention period.

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Detailed Description

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The study is an 8-week single-center prospective, randomized, crossover study among healthcare workers in the WellSpan Health System. All participants were asked to answer two demographic questions and responses to the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES), and Bergen Insomnia Scale (BIS), two burnout questions were requested for a baseline. Participants were randomized to two groups. One of the groups would undergo the intervention first, which comprised receiving an orientation session regarding the study, attending at least once weekly didactic sessions on Zoom, and participating in morning and evening meditation for ten to fifteen minutes daily. The duration of the intervention period was four weeks. During this time, the control group would not be undergoing any intervention. After four weeks, both groups completed the original questionnaire again followed by a 2 week washout period. This was followed by a crossover, allowing the second group to undergo the intervention for four weeks. After four weeks, the final survey was sent to all participants again.

Conditions

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Sleep Burnout Work Engagement

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors

The demographic data that is collected from the participants will never be available for the PI/co-investigators to see. It will be secure in a password-protected file, and at the end of the study, the data will be de-identified prior to data analysis. Any information that will be collected from participants will be done so during the screening/intake process. If the participant decides to leave the study, the work email address along with all the information will be deleted from the file. Steps taken to make the subjects feel at ease with the process include informing them during intake about all the specific steps involved ahead of time, so they know what to expect. With regards to the didactic sessions, it will be conducted in Webinar mode, which will protect the names and privacy of the participants from one another. After that, participants will not know the other people who are participating. The repeat questionnaires that are sent to the participants will be directly

Study Groups

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Intervention Arm

Comprised of receiving an orientation session regarding the study, attending at least once weekly didactic sessions on Zoom and participating in morning and evening meditation for ten to fifteen minutes daily. A weekly, live online session for 4 weeks consists of 30 minutes of didactics, comprising of a 10 minute introductory talk on a module of meditation, followed by 20 minutes of guided meditation. Participants provided with materials such as guided audio clips to independently follow heartfulness practices (meditation, rejuvenation, and bed-time relaxation) for 20 minutes each day for 4 weeks: 10 minutes Heartfulness meditation in the morning and 10 minutes in the evening before sleeping

Email reminders were sent weekly containing audio recordings for guided meditation sessions. All study activities were virtual.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Heartfulness Meditation

Intervention Type OTHER

Receiving an orientation session regarding the study, attending once weekly didactic sessions on Zoom for Heartfulness Meditation, and participating in morning and evening meditation for ten to fifteen minutes daily either by themselves or along with the trainer.

Control arm

The control group would not be undergoing any intervention.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Heartfulness Meditation

Receiving an orientation session regarding the study, attending once weekly didactic sessions on Zoom for Heartfulness Meditation, and participating in morning and evening meditation for ten to fifteen minutes daily either by themselves or along with the trainer.

Intervention Type OTHER