Impact of a Wellness Leadership Intervention on the Empathy, Burnout, and Resting Heart Rate of Medical Faculty.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the efficacy of a wellness leadership intervention for improving the empathy, burnout, and physiological stress of medical faculty leaders.

Participants and methods

Participants were 49 medical faculty leaders (80% physicians, 20% basic scientists; 67% female). The 6-week course was evaluated with a 15-week longitudinal waitlist-control quasi-experiment from September 1, 2021, through December 20, 2021 (during the COVID-19 pandemic). We analyzed 3 pretest-posttest-posttest and 6 weekly survey measurements of affective empathy and burnout, and mean=85 (SD=31) aggregated daily resting heart rates per participant, using 2-level hierarchical linear modeling.

Results

The course found a preventive effect for leaders' burnout escalation. As the control

SUBMITTER: Gilin DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10708962 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature