Mindfulness Based Resilience Training

Summary

The investigators aim to evaluate the Mindfulness Based Resilience Training (MBRT) intervention for Mayo Clinic employees in order to provide evidence for improved ability to cope with stress and decreased work-related burnout and stress-related symptoms as a result of MBRT training. In addition, the investigators aim to compare the effects of MBRT + smartphone sleep feedback, a smartphone resilience intervention + smartphone sleep feedback, or waitlist control +smartphone sleep feedback in a randomized clinical trial in a sample of 75 Mayo Clinic employees.

Conditions

• Stress, Psychological

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

MBRT ClassRoom and Phone Application

2 hours/week for 6 week, in classroom intervention involving mindfulness based resilience training.focused on mindfulness and self-compassion training, including body awareness, breath awareness, mindful movement, awareness of thoughts, and awareness of emotion. Core concepts included: normalizing experience of stress and changing one's relationship with an experience; learning to be a compassionate observer of self in order to appreciate the moment; recognizing undue efforts to control something that has already happened; shifting attention to felt body sense and away from the narrative; and redirecting attention to a value as a way of evoking positive states that enhance the present moment experience. Participants also use the smartphone to track their sleep and subjective well-being.

BEHAVIORAL

Phone application only

Participants will track their sleep and subjective well-being and also choose one of the following weekly challenges, which is completed via smartphone interactions: * Joys of Life * Count your blessings * Think differenc, feel better * Exercising --\> Happier \+ Exercising --\> Sleep * Pre-Sleep routine * Eat that frog * Mindful Meditation

BEHAVIORAL

Questionnaires

At baseline, immediately after the last MBRT session (6 weeks) and again at 3 and 6 months, all participants will complete questionnaires, including: 1) WHO-5 Well-Being Index; 2) DASS-21; 3) VAS-Fatigue; 4) MBI-Human Services version; 5) Self-Compassion Scale; 6) Connor-Davidson 2-item resilience scale; 7) Compassion to others scale.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Arizona State University

  collaborator OTHER

• Mayo Clinic

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Cynthia Stonnington, MD · Mayo Clinic

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2015-04-30

Primary Completion

2016-03-31

Completion

2016-03-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations