NCT05949216

The Impact of Musical Engagement on Medical Resident Well-being

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 8 (actual)
• Sponsor: Conor Donnelly · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

It is common knowledge that music has a positive impact on human well-being. It is also well-known that medical residents are frequently stressed and burnt out. With these two thoughts in mind, the investigators want to explore how participating in a musical engagement program may positively impact medical resident well-being. The investigators hope to do this by hosting four informal musical engagement sessions with medical residents, which will involve playing instruments, improvising, and reading sheet music. To study the impact that this program has on participants, investigators will ask participants to complete a survey. The investigators hope to find that participants are positively impacted by participation in the study, in terms of factors like stress reduction and minimized burnout symptoms. Hopefully, the study results may inform residency program curriculum designers in the future may incorporate music into wellness programming.

Conditions

• Burnout
• Student Burnout
• Physical Disability
• Resident Doctor
• Music Therapy
• Music
• Stress
• Wellness, Psychological

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Musical engagement sessions	Musical engagement sessions will be 2 hours long and involve improvisation and sight-reading of sheet music. Participants will supply their own instrument of choice to play. There will be four sessions total.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-08-01
• Primary completion: 2023-09-30
• Completion: 2024-01-31
• First posted: 2023-07-17
• Last updated: 2025-05-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada