NCT05051969

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Metro Nashville Public School Employees

Completed NA Last updated 8 February 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Remote Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program in Self-compassion in 37 participants. Completed in 5 January 2023.

Timeline

1 July 2022

Primary endpoint
5 January 2023

5 January 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	non randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	other
Enrollment	37
Start date	1 July 2022
Primary completion	5 January 2023
Estimated completion	5 January 2023
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Remote Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program

Conditions studied

• Self-compassion — all drugs for Self-compassion →
• Burnout — all drugs for Burnout →
• Stress — all drugs for Stress →
• Anxiety — all drugs for Anxiety →

Sponsor

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Self-compassion or Burnout. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Stress, anxiety, and depression are common symptoms among public school teachers. Public school teachers are among the top professions reporting stress, anxiety, and depression. The causes are multifactorial and include work-related demands, challenges with students, limited resources, and compassion fatigue. Because of this, teachers are at risk of burnout and leaving or changing their profession. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on teachers due to disruptions in usual education delivery and ability to support students. Recent reports show poorer mental health and decreases in physical activity in teachers since the onset of the pandemic. Effective and implementable strategies are urgently needed to address poor mental health and to foster positive health characteristics in this population.

Mindfulness programs decrease feelings of stress, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion. Additionally, mindfulness can improve self-compassion, which may be an important mediating factor in a teacher population. Prior work has shown an inverse relationship between self-compassion and burnout. Currently, there are few studies investigating whether building self-compassion can reduce burnout in public school teachers. The investigators will explore therelationship between participation in a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course and changes in burnout, self-compassion, and other whole person health measures in an educator population. The overall objective of this open pilot study is to examine the feasibility and acceptability of an 8-week remote, group-based MBSR program delivered over Zoom for Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) personnel reporting elevated stress, anxiety, and/or depressive symptoms. Our pilot study results will contribute to the evidence on MBSR in a public-school employee population and inform strategies to optimize implementation of our remote MBSR program within the Vanderbilt Health at MNPS system.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.