Fostering Resilience in Physician Moms

• Sponsor: Mayo Clinic (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT02540473
• Collaborator: Arizona State University (Other)
• Enrollment: 44
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Actual Duration (Months): 22
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 2

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Physicians in general are at risk for burnout, and this risk is heightened among women, particularly mothers. In a randomized design, central hypotheses in this study are that mothers who attend our 12-week Relational Psychotherapy Mothers Group (RPMG) intervention will show significantly greater decreases in stress, depression, burnout, and associated risk biomarker indices, as compared to comparison controls (who would meet in unstructured gatherings, for an hour a week for 12 weeks). Additionally the investigators hypothesize that the gains would be maintained three months after the intervention is completed.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Stress, Psychological	Behavioral: Manualized Therapy; Behavioral: Control Group	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 44 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Official Title: Fostering Resilience: An Intervention for Women Physicians at Risk for Burnout
• Actual Study Start Date: Feb 1, 2015
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Jul 1, 2016
• Actual Study Completion Date: Dec 1, 2016

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Group therapy 12 week manualized group therapy (one hour per week)	Behavioral: Manualized Therapy; Relational psychotherapy mothers
Other: Control Group Participants get one hour of time away from patient care/duties to do as they wish.	Behavioral: Control Group; one hour of free time to do with as they wish

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. level of depression [Baseline to 3 months]

   Beck Depression Inventory

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. biomarker of stress [Baseline to 3 months]

   C-reactive protein

2. biomarker of stress [Baseline to 3 months]

   nerve-growth factor

3. Professional functioning [Baseline to 3 months]

   The Maslach Burnout Inventory

4. perceived social support [Baseline to 3 months]

   Quality of Social Support Scale

5. Parenting stress [Baseline to 3 months]

   Parenting Stress Inventory

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

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

Inclusion of Women and Minorities:

• This study will be restricted to women physician mothers, who are the target of the manualized RPMG program.

• The study will not use race or ethnicity as a basis for selecting subjects.

Inclusion of Children:

• This study does not include children.

Exclusion criteria

• Participation in this study is open to all Mayo physician mothers with a child under the age of 18 years.

• As in past RPMG trials, the only exclusion criteria are if mothers were to indicate active suicidality, or meet criteria for psychoses, during initial assessments or during participation in this study.

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Mayo Clinic in Arizona	Scottsdale	Arizona	United States	85259

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Mayo Clinic
• Arizona State University

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Cynthia Stonnington, MD, Mayo Clinic

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Cynthia M. Stonnington, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02540473
• Other Study ID Numbers: 14-009196
• First Posted: Sep 4, 2015
• Last Update Posted: Aug 30, 2017
• Last Verified: Aug 1, 2017

• Keywords provided by Cynthia M. Stonnington, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic: Resilience
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Stress, Psychological

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Aug 30, 2017