Protocol of randomized-controlled trial to examine the effectiveness of three different interventions to reduce healthcare provider burnout.

Protocol of randomized-controlled trial to examine the effectiveness of three different interventions to reduce healthcare provider burnout.

Publication date: Dec 23, 2024

Burnout is among the greatest challenges facing healthcare today. Healthcare providers have been found to experience burnout at significant rates, with COVID-19 exacerbating the challenge. Burnout in the healthcare setting has been associated with decreases in job satisfaction, productivity, professionalism, quality of care, and patient satisfaction, as well as increases in career choice regret, intent to leave, and patient safety incidents. In this context, there is a growing need to reduce provider burnout through targeted interventions, yet little is known about what types of interventions may be most effective. The present study aims to contribute to and extend prior literature by using rigorous randomized controlled trial (RCT) methodology with a parallel group design to examine the effectiveness of different interventions in decreasing mental distress, increasing self-efficacy and attenuating inefficiencies and dissatisfiers in the work environment to achieve sustainable improvement. ‘ The present study is an ongoing randomized controlled trial (RCT) that examines the effectiveness of three different types of interventions to reduce provider burnout: an intervention targeting emotional wellbeing and resilience, Electronic Health Record (EHR) skills training, and performance improvement training, relative to a no-treatment control group. This study aims to enroll a total of 400 healthcare providers in a large urban hospital system. Outcomes will be assessed at post-treatment and 6-month follow-up. Key outcomes include burnout, emotional health, intent to leave, EHR mastery, and confidence in performance improvement. Changes in outcome measurements from baseline to post-intervention across the intervention and control groups will be conducted using linear mixed-effects models (LMM). This study is novel in that it compares several interventions addressing both personal as well as system-level drivers of provider burnout that have been theorized to operate among healthcare providers. In addition, post-treatment and longer-term follow-up assessments will provide insight into the maintenance of effects. Another innovation is the inclusion of different types of patient-facing providers in the study population (doctors, nurses, and therapists). This study was registered at ClinicalTrials. gov (NCT05780892) on March 10th, 2023.

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Concepts Keywords
Burnout Adult
Clinicaltrials Burnout
Month Burnout, Professional
Nct05780892 COVID-19
Sustainable Electronic health records
Emotional resilience
Female
Health Personnel
Healthcare
Humans
Interventions
Job Satisfaction
Male
Middle Aged
Performance improvement
Randomized Controlled Trial
SARS-CoV-2
Self Efficacy

Semantics

Type Source Name
disease MESH burnout
drug DRUGBANK Nonoxynol-9
disease MESH COVID-19
disease IDO quality
disease IDO intervention
pathway REACTOME Reproduction
disease MESH emotional exhaustion
disease MESH depersonalization
disease MESH anxiety
disease MESH depression
disease MESH job demands
disease MESH infection
disease MESH causes
disease IDO process
drug DRUGBANK Trestolone
drug DRUGBANK Ranitidine
drug DRUGBANK Coenzyme M
drug DRUGBANK Ademetionine
drug DRUGBANK Etoperidone
drug DRUGBANK Tretamine
drug DRUGBANK Aspartame
disease IDO role
disease IDO site
disease MESH tic
disease MESH defects
drug DRUGBANK Spinosad
disease MESH suicidal ideation
disease IDO country
drug DRUGBANK Angelica archangelica root
disease MESH Emergency
disease MESH professional burnout
disease MESH mental disorders
disease MESH cognitive disorders

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