NCT05605041

Mindfulness in Medical Training

Mindfulness in Medical Training: Using Headspace to Improve Sleep, Anxiety, and Burnout Among Resident Physicians

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Arizona · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Headspace, a smartphone application that provides guided meditation, mindfulness and sleep exercises, will be used as the intervention in improving sleep, anxiety, depression and burnout in all participating individuals selected from the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson residents and fellows.

Detailed description

The intervention of of daily meditation with the Headspace application will be used to determine if this is a possible effective intervention for decreasing the feeling of burnout. It is being proposed that it could improve the subjects' well-being both in the short-term and long term. The primary outcomes will be burnout, anxiety, depression and sleep. This study will use the Maslach Burnout Inventory to assess baseline burnout, as well as at 30 and 90 days post-intervention period. Sleep and anxiety and depression will be assessed using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) scores at the same intervals.

Conditions

• Mindfulness, Burnout, Anxiety, Sleep

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Headspace	Headspace is an app that allows users to practice mindfulness through guided meditation

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-12-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-01
• Completion: 2023-02-01
• First posted: 2022-11-04
• Last updated: 2025-08-03