NCT03811990

Does a Phone-based Meditation Application Improve Mental Wellness in Emergency Medicine Personnel?

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Texas at Austin · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Emergency medicine is notorious for its high rate of burnout and mental health issues. The emergency department (ED) is a high paced work environment dealing with life and death issues. Employees in the ED work shift times that are not conducive to a natural circadian rhythm. All of these factors lead to high rates of burnout and overall dissatisfaction with their career choice. These are known downsides of a career in emergency medicine, but little effort is put into addressing this issue in everyday EDs. Cell phones offer an easy and convenient means to participate in meditation. There are multiple evidence-based meditation apps available to cell phone users free of charge. Meditation has been shown to decrease burnout, rates of depression, and rates of anxiety. We hypothesize that weekly use of a meditation-based cell phone application will improve the mental health of emergency department employees as measured on various wellness inventories.

Conditions

• Burnout, Professional
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cleveland Clinic Stress Free Now Meditations For Healers	Phone-based meditation application

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-12-19
• Primary completion: 2019-08-01
• Completion: 2020-06-01
• First posted: 2019-01-22
• Last updated: 2019-01-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States