NCT03403335

Mindfulness Practices for Healthcare Professional Trainees

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 57 (actual)
• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A newly developed intervention, Mindfulness Based Practices for Health Care Professionals in Training: Clinical Applications, will be piloted to determine the feasibility and accessibility within this population. The purpose of the proposed study is to assess the change in perceived stress at work/school and psychological symptomology; i.e., depression, stress, emotion regulation, and dispositional mindfulness, from pre to post intervention in health care professional students and when compared to a matched control group.

Detailed description

The proposed study aims to investigate an 8-week intervention: Mindfulness Based Practices for Health Care Professionals in Training: Clinical Applications. During the intervention, participants will engage in didactic education, experiential mindfulness practices, including gentle yoga, and group dialogue. The aim of the study is to investigate the feasibility of this intervention in producing measurable differences between the participants and matched controls on their perception of their well-being and clinical work.

Conditions

• Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness Based Practices for Health Care Professionals in Training	Eight weekly sessions including didactic lecture, discussion, homework, gentle yoga, and meditation and mindfulness exercises

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-02-09
• Primary completion: 2018-12-31
• Completion: 2019-04-28
• First posted: 2018-01-18
• Last updated: 2019-06-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States