NCT04462484

Online Self-care Training Program (MAGO Study)

Study Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Self-Care Training Programme to Reduce Burnout and Promote Work Engagement in Clinical Psychologists: MAGO Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 74 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Padova · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to determine the efficacy of MAGO (Online Self-care Training Program for Psychologists), a person-directed, individual, occupational intervention via videoconference in six sessions on a weekly basis. By promoting self-care behaviors, it is expected to reduce burnout levels and to increase work engagement in clinical psychologists working in Chile.

Detailed description

Clinical psychologists are susceptible to develop burnout as a result of facing consistently emotionally taxing job demands and a high requirement for empathy. Implementing self-care behaviors can help to prevent negative consequences of work stress and the promotion of positive outcomes such as optimal professional functioning and enhanced well-being in psychologists. The intervention is a person-directed, individual, primary occupational intervention. It will be carried out via videoconference in six weekly sessions of 45 minutes. MAGO is a program derived from Self-care Assessment for Psychology (SCAP). From a preventive perspective on self-care, items represent strategies or behaviors that may be integrated into one's professional and personal life on a more ongoing and proactive basis to promote well-functioning. Chile has presented a slow but progressive development of e-mental health research, and Internet-based interventions are at an early stage of development in this country. Using videoconference and web-delivered questionnaires are crucial in reaching psychologists considering problems such as long distances of transportation and a tiny budget for mental health. Nevertheless, Chile scores 52 in the Global Connectivity Index, while digital technologies are highly utilized across all social strata.

Conditions

• Occupational Burnout

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	videoconference	The intervention is a person-directed, individual, primary occupational intervention. It will be carried out via videoconference in six sessions of 45 minutes (on a weekly basis). Through guided dialogue, individual difficulties and opportunities of each subject will be examined in order to gain self-awareness of personal characteristics (strengths, limitations, maximum workload capacity) in their particular set of job demands and resources. Participants are encouraged to adopt the set of self-care strategies in each dimension, adapting them to their specific context. Activities will be carried out in Spanish by the researcher.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-07-14
• Primary completion: 2022-02-13
• Completion: 2022-02-13
• First posted: 2020-07-08
• Last updated: 2022-05-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Chile