Burnout
Conditions
Keywords
burnout, working memory, working memory training, cognitive behavioral therapy, executive control
Brief summary
Burnout patients show deficient working memory functioning. Several studies showed a training can increase working memory capacity. In the current study we explored whether training working memory can reduce burnout and burnout related symptoms and increase working memory capacity.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALWorking memory training
BEHAVIORALPlacebo training
Sponsors
HSK
Erasmus Medical Center
Study design
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 67 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* undifferentiated somatoform disorder with a work related cause
Exclusion criteria
* age which exceeded the range of 18 to 67 years * a severe major depressive episode * substance dependence or abuse
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in Utrechtse Burnout Scale (UBOS) score on pre and post training and two months after training | Baseline, post (4 weeks after baseline), after last session of cognitive behavioral therapy and follow-up (2 months after post-test) | The Dutch translation of the Maslach Burnout Inventory - General Survey (Schaufeli, Leiter, Maslach, & Jackson, 1996), the Utrechtse Burnout Scale-A, measures the severity of burnout symptoms. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in Cognitive Failure Questionnaire (CFQ) score on pre and post training and two months after training | Baseline, post (4 weeks after baseline), after last session of cognitive behavioral therapy and follow-up (2 months after post-test) | The Cognitive Failure Questionnarie measures the frequency of participants' experienced cognitive failures regarding memory, action, perception and attention. |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90) score on pre and post training and two months after training | Baseline, post (4 weeks after baseline), after last session of cognitive behavioral therapy and follow-up (2 months after post-test) | The Dutch version of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (Derogatis, 1977) is a 90-item self-report questionnaire which measures psychosocial distress of the last week - including the day of testing - on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 0 (not at all) to 4 (extremely). |
| Change in Digit Span score on pre and post training and two months after training | Baseline, post (4 weeks after baseline), after last session of cognitive behavioral therapy and follow-up (2 months after post-test) | The Digit Span consists of two parts with 14 trials each: the forward Digit Span measures short term memory, whereas the backward version measures WM. |
| Change in Reading Span partial-credit unit score on pre and post training and two months after training | Baseline, post (4 weeks after baseline), after last session of cognitive behavioral therapy and follow-up (2 months after post-test) | The Reading Span assesses the processing and storage functions of WM (Shipstead et al., 2012). |
Countries
Netherlands
Contacts
Primary ContactSabine Wanmaker, MSc
Outcome results
None listed