NCT04936893

Effects of Mindfulness Practice on Healthcare Workers

Effects of Mindfulness Practice on Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease) Pandemic

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yale-NUS College · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to examine the effects of mindfulness practice administered using a mobile app on psychological health among health care workers in Singapore.

Detailed description

Research has shown that health workers are particularly at risk of experiencing heightened risks of burnout and psychological symptoms when dealing with a health pandemic, including the current COVID-19 pandemic (Lai et al., 2020; Tan et al., 2020; Wu et al., 2009). The increased risk reflects an urgent need to develop feasible psychological interventions to mitigate burnout and psychological symptoms among health workers. The present study aims to examine the effects of a brief mindfulness intervention delivered using a mobile application (HeadSpace) on psychological functioning in the context of coping with the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of health workers in Singapore. A total of 80 health workers will be recruited and randomly assigned to using a mindfulness practice app or a cognitive games app daily over a period of 21 days. They will be assessed at baseline, post-intervention, and at one-month follow-up on depressive symptoms, anxiety, stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, post-traumatic stress symptoms, trait mindfulness, self-compassion, sleep quality, working memory, and fear of COVID-19 infection. Results of the study will have implications on developing cost-effective interventions to mitigate psychological symptoms among health workers in the context of heightened pandemic-related stress.

Conditions

• Psychological Burnout

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness Practice	10-15 mins of daily mindfulness practice using HeadSpace, for 3 weeks
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive training	10-15 mins of cognitive games using Lumosity, for 3 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-05-19
• Primary completion: 2021-03-31
• Completion: 2021-07-31
• First posted: 2021-06-23
• Last updated: 2023-01-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Singapore