Mindfulness Rounds Initiative - A Short Mindfulness-Based Program for A Busy Workplace
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
An 8 week course of mindfulness education and practices will be presented to all staff, patients, and visitors voluntarily attending the thrice weekly presentations. The goal is to reduce staff stress, improve communication, enhance patient satisfaction, and improve quality of care.
Condition or Disease | Intervention/Treatment | Phase |
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Detailed Description
"Mindfulness Rounds" Care-giver well-being is recognized as an important goal in decreasing burnout, increasing job satisfaction, and may have implications in improving quality of care and patient satisfaction. Mindfulness training is a well-studied tool used to enhance care-giver well-being. The impact of a Mindfulness training experience for caregivers, support staff, and patients and their families working together in a hospital unit on patient satisfaction has not been well studied, if at all. The researchers propose instituting a pilot program of Mindfulness Rounds on a given hospital unit and assessing the effect on employee well-being, patient satisfaction, and quality of care.
Introduction:
The physical and mental health of healthcare practitioners (HCPs) has become an area of attention and research in recent years as HCP burnout and suicide are now openly discussed concerns in medicine. Well-being education is now a required curricula component by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Mindfulness is a technique and philosophical concept which has received significant attention in the medical literature as a tool for increasing HCP well-being.
Mindfulness describes the idea of maintaining a conscious presence in the present, of avoiding obsessing about the past or the future, and of continuously being aware of, and grateful for, the things we have in life as opposed to the things we don't. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is one particular system, developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn over 30 years ago, which has been built into a well-structured certified training program for teaching mindfulness. Numerous studies have used MBSR or similar techniques to advance HCP psychologic well-being, and while some have investigated a variety of HCP training techniques to improve the patient experience, few have sought to explore a relationship between the impact of mindfulness training for HCP on patient satisfaction, quality of care outcomes, and HCP overall health. To the investigators' knowledge, no one has sought to bring mindfulness education to an entire hospital unit - physicians, nurses, support staff, as well as patients and their families wherever possible - with the goal of improving both HCP and the overall patient experience.
The researchers propose instituting a pilot program of Mindfulness Rounds on a given hospital unit and assessing the effect on employee well-being, patient satisfaction, and quality of care.
Study Design
Arms and Interventions
Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
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Experimental: Mindfulness Rounds Participants will be exposed to thrice weekly Mindfulness Rounds education on the Unit; participation in the actual sessions is voluntary. |
Behavioral: Mindfulness Rounds
Throughout the 8-week study period, a different mindfulness practice will be introduced weekly in 3 separate 15-minute live sessions. Posters describing the particular "practice of the week" will be placed around the Unit as visual reminders to encourage actual practice.
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No Intervention: Control No intervention will take place on this Unit |
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- Change in Pain scores [1-3 months pre-intervention, 1-3 months post-intervention]
Patient pain scores are routinely collected by Nursing and entered into the electronic medical record (EMR). Full pain scale from 0-10, higher score indicates more pain.
Secondary Outcome Measures
- Discharge time [1-3 months pre-intervention, 1-3 months post-intervention]
Duration from discharge order to discharge time.
- Change in Narcotic usage [1-3 months pre-intervention, 1-3 months post-intervention]
Aggregate total narcotics administered/patient hours on unit.
- Change in Patient Satisfaction survey [1-3 months pre-intervention, 1-3 months post-intervention]
Pres-Ganey survey to assess patient satisfaction. Pres-Ganey Survey: 24 item instrument, each item scored: very poor (score = 0), poor (25), fair (50), good (75) and very good (100). Full scale from 0 - 100, higher score indicates more satisfaction.
- Change in Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) survey [Within 1 month prior to intervention, within one month post the intervention.]
This is a validated survey tool to assess an individual's perceived stress. Full scale range from 0 to 40, higher score indicates higher perceived stress.
- Change in number of Staff sick days [1-3 months pre-intervention, 1-3 months post-intervention]
Number of total staff sick days.
- Change in number of staff injuries [1-3 months pre-intervention, 1-3 months post-intervention]
Number of total staff injuries
- Change in number of workers compensation claims [1-3 months pre-intervention, 1-3 months post-intervention]
Number of total workers compensation claims
- Change in number of discharges before noon [1-3 months pre-intervention, 1-3 months post-intervention]
Number of discharges before noon as a hospital metric tracked for efficiency.
- Change in Staff handwashing rates [1-3 months pre-intervention, 1-3 months post-intervention]
Routinely tracked by anonymous observers
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Employees on the Units
Exclusion Criteria:
- none
Contacts and Locations
Locations
Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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1 | Mount Sinai Hospital | New York | New York | United States | 10029 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Jeffrey Zahn, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
Publications
None provided.- GCO 19-1849