Publication date: Jul 12, 2025

Senior doctors play a key leadership role in the mental health and well-being of their staff, therefore promoting and protecting doctor well-being is important. To assess the acceptability and feasibility of an individual-focussed, six-session virtual coaching program and its potential effectiveness on self-reported levels of psychological distress, well-being, flourishing, and solution-focussed thinking in a cohort of Australian senior doctors. Program delivery occurred between 1 August 2020 and 8 January 2021. Baseline, post-intervention, and 3-month post-intervention data were collected. Changes from baseline in psychological distress measured using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS)-21, well-being, flourishing, and solution-focussed thinking were explored using repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA). Thirty-nine hospital-based senior doctors provided baseline data. Thirty-three (33/39, 85%) completed the intervention. Twenty-five program completers (25/33, 76%) provided survey data at all timepoints. Scores on the DASS-21 differed significantly over time (F(2, 48) = 13. 22, P 

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