Mindfulness for Stress in Healthcare Professionals
This study is testing a mindfulness program called Building Emotional Strength Training (BEST) to see if it can help reduce stress in healthcare professionals. Many healthcare workers experience high levels of stress, which can lead to burnout and other health problems. The BEST program teaches techniques to develop loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity (calmness). Researchers will measure changes in perceived stress levels over six weeks to see how well the program works. This study is currently recruiting full-time physicians who are at least 18 years old, can attend the six-week program, are fluent in English, and have internet access.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study with a planned enrollment of 80 participants. It is a two-arm, parallel-group randomized controlled trial, meaning participants will be randomly assigned to either the BEST program or a waitlist group.
- What's involved
- You would attend a six-week intervention. Your perceived stress levels will be assessed at the beginning, mid-course (week 3), and at the end of the intervention (week 6).
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your stress levels will be measured at the end of the six-week intervention.
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A Mindfulness-Based Intervention to Reduce Stress Through the Cultivation of Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity in Healthcare Professionals
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Julienne E Bower, Ph.D. · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · University of California, Los Angeles, Psychology Department
Who to contact
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What this trial measures
- Mean Change from Baseline in Perceived Stress as Assessed by the Perceived Stress ScaleAt baseline, mid-course at week 3, and post-intervention at week 6.
Stress will be assessed using the ten-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS). The PSS evaluates how often individuals appraised situations in their lives as stressful during the past month (e.g., "In the last month, how often have you been angered because of things that were outside of your control?"). Respondents respond on a five-point Likert scale from 0 (never) to 4 (very often). All scores are summed to provide a total stress score. Scores range from 0 to 40, with higher scores indicating a higher level of perceived stress. The PSS has been widely used with healthcare professional populations and has been shown to be responsive to mindfulness-based interventions.