Fostering Resilience in Physician Moms

Fostering Resilience: An Intervention for Women Physicians at Risk for Burnout

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02540473

Enrollment

Registered

2015-09-04

Start date

2015-02-28

Completion date

2016-12-31

Last updated

2017-08-30

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Conditions

Stress, Psychological

Keywords

Resilience

Brief summary

Physicians in general are at risk for burnout, and this risk is heightened among women, particularly mothers. In a randomized design, central hypotheses in this study are that mothers who attend our 12-week Relational Psychotherapy Mothers Group (RPMG) intervention will show significantly greater decreases in stress, depression, burnout, and associated risk biomarker indices, as compared to comparison controls (who would meet in unstructured gatherings, for an hour a week for 12 weeks). Additionally the investigators hypothesize that the gains would be maintained three months after the intervention is completed.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALManualized Therapy

Relational psychotherapy mothers

BEHAVIORALControl Group

one hour of free time to do with as they wish

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

FEMALE

Age

25 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion of Women and Minorities: * This study will be restricted to women physician mothers, who are the target of the manualized RPMG program. * The study will not use race or ethnicity as a basis for selecting subjects. Inclusion of Children: * This study does not include children.

Exclusion criteria

* Participation in this study is open to all Mayo physician mothers with a child under the age of 18 years. * As in past RPMG trials, the only

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
level of depression	Baseline to 3 months	Beck Depression Inventory

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
biomarker of stress	Baseline to 3 months	C-reactive protein
Professional functioning	Baseline to 3 months	The Maslach Burnout Inventory
perceived social support	Baseline to 3 months	Quality of Social Support Scale
Parenting stress	Baseline to 3 months	Parenting Stress Inventory

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026