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Mindfulness training for healthcare professional students: A waitlist controlled pilot study on psychological and work-relevant outcomes
- Source :
- Complementary Therapies in Medicine. 51:102405
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Objectives To fill gaps in the literature on the effects of mindfulness for healthcare professionals (HCPs), the current pragmatic trial investigated feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of Mindfulness for Interdisciplinary Healthcare Professional (MIHP) students on stress and work-relevant outcomes in the absence of offering school-based incentives. Design A partially randomized waitlist-controlled design (intention-to-treat sample: 22 in the mindfulness group, 26 in the control group) was employed. Intervention MIHP is an eight-week intervention that incorporates meditation training, yoga, and discussion on the application of mindfulness principles to stressors commonly faced by HCPs and students. Main outcome measures Domains of feasibility and acceptability; Maslach Burnout Inventory and other validated measures of psychological functioning; cognitive task performance on the Trail Making Test A & B; and the Work Productivity and Activity Impairment plus Classroom Impairment Questionnaire. Results Results supported the feasibility and acceptability of MIHP but found randomization to be unacceptable. Small to large effects were found for MIHP, relative to the control group, on outcomes of burnout, perceived stress, mindfulness, and activity impairment. No effect of MIHP was found on cognitive performance or work productivity outcomes. Conclusions Preferential group allocation improved retention relative to randomization in the absence of school-based incentives. Results suggest that MIHP is feasible and acceptable and may have benefit for improving mindfulness and reducing burnout, stress, and activity impairment. Cognitive performance, work absenteeism, and work impairment did not change following MIHP. Results support future investigations into the effects of participant compensation on MIHP’s dissemination and effectiveness.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Complementary and Manual Therapy
Mindfulness
Adolescent
Waiting Lists
Health Personnel
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education
Trail Making Test
Pilot Projects
Burnout
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Cognitive skill
Meditation
Students
Burnout, Professional
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Advanced and Specialized Nursing
business.industry
Yoga
Stressor
Cognition
Complementary and alternative medicine
Absenteeism
Female
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09652299
- Volume :
- 51
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Complementary Therapies in Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d58b535d0d8c72f6295d8ced7124c800