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Evaluation of a Daily Brief Exercise Intervention on Resident Physician Personal Resiliency and Burnout

NCT03489720 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 46

Last updated 2020-04-14

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Summary

This study seeks to evaluate the prevalence and characterize predictors of physician burnout in the anesthesia residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The study also seeks to evaluate the effect of an exercise intervention on burnout and personal resiliency (i.e., less individual stress given the same workload).

Conditions

  • Burnout, Professional
  • Burnout Syndrome

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Prescribed Exercise Program

Brief cardiovascular exercise training (\>70% of maximum heart rate) for 15 minutes a day, 5 days a week for 8 weeks. The exercise intervention will be a 15-minute per day of vigorous exercise that as monitored by a Fitbit Charge 2. Examples of possible 15-minute exercise regimens to be used include: * Walking quickly or running up and down stairs * Plyometric exercises such as jumping jacks, high knees, squats, lunges, speed skaters, froggers, etc * Walking up an incline on a treadmill * Jogging or running on a treadmill or elliptical * Stationary cycling or rowing

BEHAVIORAL

Usual Exercise Program

Usual exercise activity for 8 weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Uma Shastri, MD, PhD · Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-06-01
Primary Completion
2018-12-26
Completion
2018-12-26

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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