NCT02838290

Occupational Distress in Doctors: The Effect of an Induction Programme

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 232 (actual)
• Sponsor: Birkbeck, University of London · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Background: Over 39% of approximately 3,000 doctors (The British Medical Association quarterly survey, 2015) admitted to frequently feeling drained, exhausted, overloaded, tired, low and lacking energy. Such occupational distress may link to psychological and physical difficulties in doctors and have negative outcomes for organization and patients. The aim of the current study is to investigate the impact of an induction programme on occupational distress of doctors. Methods/design: Doctors will be invited to take part in an online research. Participants will be randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. Participants in the experimental groups will complete one of the induction topics (about stress at work). Before and after an induction programme participants will be asked to fill in an online survey about their current occupational distress and organizational well-being. Discussion: The investigators expect that doctors' psychological, physiological and organizational well-being will improve after an induction programme which should serve as a resource for better doctor's own health understanding.

Conditions

• Burnout, Professional
• Anxiety
• Grief
• Adaptation, Psychological
• Eating Behavior
• Alcohol Drinking
• Drug Use

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Induction	Participants will be randomly assigned (computer generated straight away after clicking the link to the research) to one of 4 experimental conditions: stress at work, dealing with a patient's death, managing stress at work or all topics together. Each module includes brief reflection parts and quizzes. Participants will be asked to fill in an online survey just before the induction and a week after. The survey is about current occupational distress and organizational factors.
OTHER	Control group	Participants in the control group will be asked to fill in an online survey, but will not have any task at time-1. However, participants in the control group will be invited to complete induction programme after time-2 (a week time after time-1) in ensure the same expectations in both, experimental and control, groups.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-07-01
• Primary completion: 2016-11-01
• Completion: 2016-11-01
• First posted: 2016-07-20
• Last updated: 2017-01-31