Compassion-Centered Spiritual Health for Faculty and Staff
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Abstract
Description
Previous research indicates that Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT) improves empathic accuracy, enhances well-being, and attenuates the pro-inflammatory response to psychosocial stress. CBCT is a secularized compassion meditation program adapted from the Tibetan Buddhist mind training (lojong) tradition, and it may be an ideal addendum to the spiritual caregiving provided by Emory University hospital chaplains and chaplain residents to approximately 100,000 patients, staff, and faculty members each year.
With this in mind, The Emory University Spiritual Health department now incorporates CBCT into their training curriculum using a phased approach that began in Fall 2017. The Spiritual Health department also developed an adapted program based on CBCT principles that chaplains can then deliver to patients and staff, called Compassion-Centered Spiritual Health (CCSH). Spiritual Health proposes to pilot a systematic implementation of CCSH Interventions for Teams (CCSH-TI) to clinical research teams at the Winship Cancer Institute.
This is a randomized trial of CCSH Interventions for Teams versus a wait list control condition. CRC teams will be randomized to receive CCSH-TI during a first cohort or to a wait-list group that will receive CCSH-TI during the second cohort. CRCs (n = 93) will be randomized by team to receive CCSH Interventions for Teams either in the fall or in the spring. Participating CRCs will complete self-report measures at 4 timepoints throughout the year: (1) Prior to randomization, (2) immediately upon completion of CCSH Interventions for Teams for cohort 1 (3) prior to CCSH Interventions for Teams for cohort 2, and (4) immediately upon completion of CCSH Interventions for Teams for cohort 2.
Dates
Last Verified: | 04/30/2020 |
First Submitted: | 08/15/2019 |
Estimated Enrollment Submitted: | 08/15/2019 |
First Posted: | 08/18/2019 |
Last Update Submitted: | 05/11/2020 |
Last Update Posted: | 05/13/2020 |
Actual Study Start Date: | 08/22/2019 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | 02/06/2020 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | 02/06/2020 |
Condition or disease
Intervention/treatment
Behavioral: CCSH Intervention for Teams
Phase
Arm Groups
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: CCSH Interventions for Teams in Cohort 1 Participants in the first cohort will receive the CCSH Interventions for Teams during the fall session (first intervention period). | |
Experimental: CCSH Interventions for Teams in Cohort 2 Participants in the second cohort will receive the CCSH Interventions for Teams during the spring session (second intervention period). |
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study | 18 Years To 18 Years |
Sexes Eligible for Study | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers | Yes |
Criteria | Inclusion Criteria: - Emory staff, clinical research coordinators Exclusion Criteria: - None |
Outcome
Primary Outcome Measures
1. Change in Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) Score [Baseline, Week 5, Week 24, Week 29]
2. Staff Retention [Up to Week 29]
3. Staff Absenteeism [Up to Week 29]
Secondary Outcome Measures
1. Change in Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) Short Form Score [Baseline, Week 5, Week 24, Week 29]
2. Change in Revised University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale (R-UCLA) Score [Baseline, Week 5, Week 24, Week 29]
3. Change in Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Sleep Disturbance Short Form Score [Baseline, Week 5, Week 24, Week 29]
4. Change in Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale 25 (CD-RISC-25) Score [Baseline, Week 5, Week 24, Week 29]
5. Change in Nursing Incivility Scale (General, Nurse, and Patient subscales) [Baseline, Week 5, Week 24, Week 29]
6. Interest in the CCSH Intervention Scale [Baseline or Week 24]
7. Experiences with the CCSH Intervention Scale [Week 5 or Week 29]