Creative Arts Program to Reduce Burnout in Healthcare Professionals

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

195

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

March 1, 2020

Primary Completion Date

December 31, 2024

Study Completion Date

April 30, 2025

Conditions
Burn-Out SyndromePost-Traumatic Stress DisorderDepression, Anxiety
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Visual Arts

"Subjects meet for 90 minutes, once weekly, over 12 weeks for guided drawing/sketching sessions. The 12 sessions will follow a standard sequence that addresses three primary themes: creating safety, inviting vulnerability, and integrating into a transformative community.~Surveys, activity diary cards will be completed at baseline, weekly and at intervention completion to assess satisfaction, stress, and well-being. Qualitative focus groups will occur after the intervention to assess acceptability of intervention, outcomes assessments, program development and implementation."

BEHAVIORAL

Music

"Subjects meet for 90 minutes, once weekly, over 12 weeks, for guided music-listening exercises (such as lyric analysis, patient-chosen, music for relaxation and/or visualization) and active music making. The 12 sessions follow a standard sequence, addressing three primary themes: creating safety, inviting vulnerability, and integrating into a transformative community.~Surveys, activity diary cards are completed at baseline, weekly and at completion to assess satisfaction, stress, and well-being. Qualitative focus groups, after the intervention, assess acceptability of intervention, outcomes, program development and implementation."

BEHAVIORAL

Dance/Movement

"Subjects will meet once weekly, and begin with a movement check-in, a gentle physical warm-up, and then either a structured or improvisational movement process. for a total of 12 weeks. Each session will last 90 minutes. The 12 sessions will follow a standard sequence that addresses three primary themes: creating safety, inviting vulnerability, and integrating into a transformative community.~Surveys, activity diary cards will be completed at baseline, weekly and at intervention completion to assess satisfaction, stress, and well-being. Qualitative focus groups will occur after the intervention to assess acceptability of intervention, outcomes assessments, program development and implementation."

BEHAVIORAL

Writing/Poetry

"Subjects will meet once weekly, for writing workshops to encourage participants to tell the stories they need to tell, using integral elements of good writing, for a total of 12 weeks. Each session will last 90 minutes. The 12 sessions will follow a standard sequence that addresses three primary themes: creating safety, inviting vulnerability, and integrating into a transformative community.~Surveys, activity diary cards will be completed at baseline, weekly and at intervention completion to assess satisfaction, stress, and well-being. Qualitative focus groups will occur after the intervention to assess acceptability of intervention, outcomes assessments, program development and implementation."

BEHAVIORAL

Control

Control Group will only complete surveys at baseline and 12 weeks later.

Trial Locations (1)

80045

RECRUITING

University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Endowment for the Arts, United States

FED

lead

University of Colorado, Denver

OTHER