Effect of a Professional Coaching Intervention on the Well-being and Distress of Physicians: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Burnout symptoms among physicians are common and have potentially serious ramifications for physicians and their patients. Randomized studies testing interventions to address burnout have been uncommon.

Objective

To explore the effect of individualized coaching on the well-being of physicians.

Design, setting, and participants

A pilot randomized clinical trial involving 88 practicing physicians in the departments of medicine, family medicine, and pediatrics who volunteered for coaching was conducted between October 9, 2017, and March 27, 2018, at Mayo Clinic sites in Arizona, Florida, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Statistical analysis was conducted from August 24, 2018, to March 25, 2019.

Interventions

A total of 6 coaching sessions facilitated by a prof

SUBMITTER: Dyrbye LN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6686971 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature