Burnout, Sleep, Work Engagement
Conditions
Keywords
heartfulness, meditation, work enagement, sleep, burnout
Brief summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if having a 4-week heartfulness meditation program in a healthcare organization would 1. decrease burnout 2. improve sleep and work engagement. Researchers will compare : intervention group : participating in 4 weeks of Heartfulness Meditation with control group: receiving no intervention Responses to the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES), Bergen Insomnia Scale (BIS) and two burnout questions will be compared between the study groups at the beginning and end of the intervention period.
Detailed description
The study is an 8-week single-center prospective, randomized, crossover study among healthcare workers in the WellSpan Health System. All participants were asked to answer two demographic questions and responses to the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES), and Bergen Insomnia Scale (BIS), two burnout questions were requested for a baseline. Participants were randomized to two groups. One of the groups would undergo the intervention first, which comprised receiving an orientation session regarding the study, attending at least once weekly didactic sessions on Zoom, and participating in morning and evening meditation for ten to fifteen minutes daily. The duration of the intervention period was four weeks. During this time, the control group would not be undergoing any intervention. After four weeks, both groups completed the original questionnaire again followed by a 2 week washout period. This was followed by a crossover, allowing the second group to undergo the intervention for four weeks. After four weeks, the final survey was sent to all participants again.
Interventions
Receiving an orientation session regarding the study, attending once weekly didactic sessions on Zoom for Heartfulness Meditation, and participating in morning and evening meditation for ten to fifteen minutes daily either by themselves or along with the trainer.
Sponsors
WellSpan Health
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
CROSSOVER
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Masking description
The demographic data that is collected from the participants will never be available for the PI/co-investigators to see. It will be secure in a password-protected file, and at the end of the study, the data will be de-identified prior to data analysis. Any information that will be collected from participants will be done so during the screening/intake process. If the participant decides to leave the study, the work email address along with all the information will be deleted from the file. Steps taken to make the subjects feel at ease with the process include informing them during intake about all the specific steps involved ahead of time, so they know what to expect. With regards to the didactic sessions, it will be conducted in Webinar mode, which will protect the names and privacy of the participants from one another. After that, participants will not know the other people who are participating. The repeat questionnaires that are sent to the participants will be directly
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Age above 18 and willing to participate * Able to understand the English language as the instructions were in English
Exclusion criteria
* Not able to understand English language
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sleep | From intervention to end of intervention at 4 weeks for each group | The Bergen Insomnia Scale (BIS) was measured prior to enrollment, at the four-week time point after the first half of the study, and at the end of the study period at 8 weeks for both the groups. The BIS contains six questions relating to sleep and tiredness, and it is scaled based on the number of days per week that participants are experiencing symptoms. 0 means no days during the course of a week, and 7 indicates every day of the week. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Work engagement | From intervention to end of intervention at 4 weeks for each group | THE UWES scale, designed to study work engagement using three scales: vigor, dedication, and absorption was measured prior to the beginning of the study, at the four-week time point after the first half of the study, and at the end of the study period at 8 weeks for both groups. The UWES questionnaire contains 9 questions, and participants are given a scale from 0 to 6, with 0 being never to 6 being always 10. |
| Burnout | From intervention to end of intervention at 4 weeks for each group | Two burnout questions were asked, 1. I feel burned out from my work 2. I have become more callous toward people since I took this job . The scale for answering these questions ranged from never to everyday. This was measured prior to the beginning of the study, at the four-week time point after the first half of the study, and at the end of the study period at 8 weeks for both groups. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed