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Does a Phone-based Meditation Application Improve Mental Wellness in Emergency Medicine Personnel?

NCT03811990 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2019-01-24

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Summary

Emergency medicine is notorious for its high rate of burnout and mental health issues. The emergency department (ED) is a high paced work environment dealing with life and death issues. Employees in the ED work shift times that are not conducive to a natural circadian rhythm. All of these factors lead to high rates of burnout and overall dissatisfaction with their career choice. These are known downsides of a career in emergency medicine, but little effort is put into addressing this issue in everyday EDs.

Cell phones offer an easy and convenient means to participate in meditation. There are multiple evidence-based meditation apps available to cell phone users free of charge. Meditation has been shown to decrease burnout, rates of depression, and rates of anxiety. We hypothesize that weekly use of a meditation-based cell phone application will improve the mental health of emergency department employees as measured on various wellness inventories.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cleveland Clinic Stress Free Now Meditations For Healers

Phone-based meditation application

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Texas at Austin

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Keith Lambert, MD · University of Texas at Austin

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-12-19
Primary Completion
2019-08-01
Completion
2020-06-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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