Effect of Coaching on Mid-Career Physician Well-Being, Job Satisfaction, and Fulfillment

• Sponsor: Mayo Clinic (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT03207581
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 87
• Locations: 3
• Arms: 2
• Actual Duration (Months): 9.4
• Patients Per Site: 29
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 3.1

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

The study will assess the effect of individualized professional coaching for mid-career family medicine and general internal medicine physicians on burnout, job satisfaction, and professional fulfillment.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Burnout, Professional	Behavioral: Professional Coaching	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 87 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Other
• Official Title: RCT: Effect of Coaching on Mid-Career Physician Well-Being, Job Satisfaction, and Fulfillment
• Actual Study Start Date: Jul 18, 2017
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Apr 30, 2018
• Actual Study Completion Date: Apr 30, 2018

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Immediate Coaching Intervention Immediate Coaching Intervention arm will receive professional coaching	Behavioral: Professional Coaching; Professional, individualized coaching
Active Comparator: Control/Delayed Coaching Intervention Participants randomized to the Control/Delayed Coaching will receive no intervention for the first six months of the study, at which point they cross over and receive 6 professional coaching sessions	Behavioral: Professional Coaching; Professional, individualized coaching

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Change in Maslach Burnout Inventory score [6 month]

2. Change in Physician Job Satisfaction Scale score [6 month]

3. change in Empowerment at Work Scale score [6 month]

4. change in Utrecht Work Engagement score [6 months]

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. Change in Maslach Burnout Inventory score [12 month]

2. Change in Physician Job Satisfaction Scale score [12 months]

3. change in Empowerment at Work Scale score [12 months]

4. change in Utrecht Work Engagement score [12 months]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 25 Years and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria

1. General internal medicine and family physicians

2. In practice for 5-30 years

Exclusion Criteria:

1. physicians who specialize in areas other than general internal medicine and family medicine

2. physicians who have been in practice less than 5 years or more than 30 years

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Mayo Clinic in Arizona	Scottsdale	Arizona	United States	85259
2	Mayo Clinic in Florida	Jacksonville	Florida	United States	32224
3	Mayo Clinic in Rochester	Rochester	Minnesota	United States	55905

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Mayo Clinic

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Liselotte N Dyrbye, Mayo Clinic

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Liselotte (Lotte) N. Dyrbye, Professor of Medicine and Medical Education, Mayo Clinic
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03207581
• Other Study ID Numbers: 17-003910
• First Posted: Jul 5, 2017
• Last Update Posted: Dec 11, 2018
• Last Verified: Dec 1, 2018

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Burnout, Professional

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Dec 11, 2018