Due to their difficult and stressful work surgeons are under continuous physical and mental stress exposing them to increased risk for burnout and lack of professionalism. The present intervention focuses on providing time and a safe space to debrief and explore personal and group experiences and dilemmas, as well as acquire coping skills related to burnout, communication and professionalism.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
1,000
Professionalism Culture Scale
12 item scale developed by the American Board of Internal Medicine, by (DeLisa, Foye, Jain, Kirshblum, \& Christodoulou, 2001
Time frame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
Abbreviated Burnout Scale
Nine item scale focused on 3 burnout factors (Iverson, Olekalns \& Erwin, 1998)
Time frame: Change (decrease) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
Adapted Professionalism Mini-Evaluation Scale Exercise scale
originally included 24 items developed by Cruess, McIlroy, Cruess, Ginsburg, and Steinert (2006). Translated and adapted by the research team, and now include 31 items.
Time frame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
Cynicism in Medicine Questionnaire (CMQ)
14 item questionnaire developed by Teserman, Morton, Loo, Worthle \& Lamberton, 1996
Time frame: Change (decrease) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
Moral & Cognitive Courage Scale
A newly developed questionnaire focused on self efficacy to intervene when a physician acts immorally and actual experience with acting in such cases.
Time frame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
Jefferson Health Professionals Empathy Scale
20 items questionnaire developed by Hojat, Mangione, Nasca, Cohen, Gonnella, Erdmann \& Magee, 2001
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Time frame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
The Areas of Work life Scale (AWS)
29 items questionnaire developed by Leiter \& Maslach, 2004 to measure 6 factors related to work load, control, appreciation, community, fairness and values
Time frame: Change (increase in balance) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
Professionals Self Care Practices questionnaire
43 items comprised from two questionnaires focused on different aspects of self care (Teng, Yen \& Fetzer \& Shananfelt et al., 2005). the combination of these two questionnaires was assessed by Karnieli-Miller \& Michael.
Time frame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
Life satisfaction questionnaire
3 item questionnaire focused on general life satisfaction.
Time frame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
10 item scale focused on perceived stress in the clinics (4 items validated in Ben-Zur \& Michael) and 6 items developed by the research team to assess concern and fear from medical mistakes and hierarchy.
Time frame: Change (decrease) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
Work-Life Balance
6 item questionnaire developed by Greenhaus \& Powell, 2006)
Time frame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
Resilient Coping Questionnaire (RCQ)
24 items questionnaire developed by Wolmer, Hamiel \& Laor (2105)
Time frame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
Specific Life Satisfaction Questionnaire
12 items questionnaire developed by Karnieli-Miller \& Michael to measure satisfaction with different life domains (e.g., relationships, financial etc).
Time frame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
Brief Resilience Scale (BRS)
6 item questionnaire developed by Smith et al., 2008
Time frame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
Patient Satisfaction questionnaire
23 items questionnaire focused on patient-physician communication skills and satisfaction from care.
Time frame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)
Physician Transcendence Scale (PTS)
A 16 items newly developed questionnaire focused on the physicians' transcendence. Laor, Wolmer \& Hamiel
Time frame: Baseline
Demographic information questions
questions concerning gender, age, seniority, specialty, country of birth,
Time frame: Baseline
Life Events Scale
Assessing life events the individual experienced, such as divorce, a death of a loved one, etc.
Time frame: Baseline