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Digital Intervention to Promote Medical Trainee Well-being (OptimalWork Pilot)
Sponsor: Washington University School of Medicine
Summary
This project aims to address stress, anxiety, burnout, and depression among medical trainees using a web-based intervention that teaches cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based skills to increase resilience. The intervention is a web application ("OptimalWork", optimalwork.com) that includes a "MasterClass" consisting of about 20 interactive modules to be completed over four weeks (five days/week, 15-25 minutes/day). These modules teach principles and skills of CBT in an interactive manner and give tailored recommendations for how to apply and develop these skills in one's work and personal life. Participants who enroll in the study will be randomly assigned to either the MasterClass intervention or an active control (podcast listening) condition, and the control group will be given access to the MasterClass after 8 weeks. Measurements of well-being at baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, and 16 weeks will be compared between the groups as the primary outcome. Participant engagement as measured by MasterClass module completion and qualitative feedback will also be collected to guide future efforts at large-scale implementation in medical trainees and healthcare workers.
Official title: A Randomized Controlled Pilot of a Web-based Intervention for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-based Training to Improve Mental Health in Medical Trainees
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
35
Start Date
2023-09-06
Completion Date
2024-12-31
Last Updated
2026-05-11
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
OptimalWork
An online intervention that teaches concepts of cognitive restructuring, mindfulness, and behavioral activation as they apply in one's daily life and work. Users are given personalized content recommendations based on their inventory results and instructed to complete 15-25 minutes of content per day, 5 days/week for 4 weeks. (optimalwork.com)
Podcast Listening
A curated series of podcasts on topics unrelated to cognitive behavioral therapy or mindfulness, modeled after a similar control from a study of a mindfulness based intervention (Basso et al. 2019). Users are instructed to complete one podcast per day on a digital platform (\~15 minutes/day), 5 days/week for 4 weeks.
Locations (1)
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
St Louis, Missouri, United States