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Status unknownNCT02963792BUPHERUpdated Nov 15, 2016

Burnout Preventions, Professionalism Heightening, and Enhancing Resiliency (BUPHER)

An interventional study of Preventing Professionals burnout in Professional-Patient Relations and Burnout, Professional, sponsored by michal roll. Status unknown. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-11-15.

Sponsored by michal roll · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Nov 2016), so the status shown — last known as Not yet recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
1,000
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

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.

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Conditions studied

  • Professional-Patient Relations
  • Burnout, Professional

Keywords

  • Professionalism
  • Burnout prevention
  • Resiliency
  • Student education
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In context

Burnout, Professional

214 studies on the registry are indexed under Burnout, Professional; 33 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 1,000 is above the median of 80 across 158 interventional studies indexed under Burnout, Professional.

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Lead sponsor

michal roll is the lead sponsor of 7 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

  • All physicians (residents and experts) of the Surgical Division at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
  • All medical students studying at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, and attending a surgery round at the Surgical Division at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
  • Patients (and/or family members) in the Surgical Division at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center following their surgery.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • The research will not include children and/or judgment-impaired patients;
  • population not met by inclusion criteria;
  • non-Hebrew speaking patients;
  • ventilated patients;
  • patients in surgical intensive care;
  • patients medically defined as suffering from clouding of conscious or delirium;
  • subjects who decided to stop their participation in the study.
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Health services research
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
1,000 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Structured group intervention

    Experimental: Structured group intervention a 'structured' intervention, leaning mostly on tools designed to prevent burnout and promote resilience, including predetermined exercises and topics as discussion goals in each meeting. Fidelity will be checked and monitored at the end of each meeting, when facilitators fill out a form that summarizes the content, topics and coping skills acquired in each session.

    Other: Preventing Professionals burnout

  • Experimental
    Semi-Structured group intervention

    Experimental: Semi-Structured group intervention a 'semi-structured' intervention, based on tools for developing an emotional discourse, building a supporting team and self reflection. The 'semi-structured' intervention offers predetermined contents that are discussed through the stories and needs presented by group members. Fidelity will be checked and monitored at the end of each meeting, when facilitators fill out a form that summarizes the content, topics and coping skills acquired in each session.

    Other: Preventing Professionals burnout

Interventions

  • OtherPreventing Professionals burnout

    Also known as: Enhancing professional professional conduct

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. 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)

  2. 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)

Secondary outcomes

  1. 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)

  2. 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)

  3. 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)

  4. Jefferson Health Professionals Empathy Scale

    20 items questionnaire developed by Hojat, Mangione, Nasca, Cohen, Gonnella, Erdmann \& Magee, 2001

    Time frame: Change (increase) from baseline to short and long term measurements (after one year, 3 years, respectively)

  5. 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)

  6. 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)

  7. 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)

  8. 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)

  9. 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)

  10. 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)

  11. 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)

  12. 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)

  13. 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)

  14. Physician Transcendence Scale (PTS)

    A 16 items newly developed questionnaire focused on the physicians' transcendence. Laor, Wolmer \& Hamiel

    Time frame: Baseline

  15. Demographic information questions

    questions concerning gender, age, seniority, specialty, country of birth,

    Time frame: Baseline

  16. Life Events Scale

    Assessing life events the individual experienced, such as divorce, a death of a loved one, etc.

    Time frame: Baseline

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — The participants data will be shared with the research team from the Department of Medical Education, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University and Cohen-Harris Resilience Center

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Nov 15, 2016, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02963792
Lead sponsor
michal roll
Collaborators
Association for Children at Risk, Tel Aviv University
Responsible party
michal roll (Principal of the department of surgery and the unit of surgical oncology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Nov 15, 2016
Start date
Nov 2016
Primary completion
Sep 2019 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 2020 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 15, 2016

Study contacts

Orit Karnieli-Miller, PhD
Contact
oritkm@gmail.com
+972502060619
Nathaniel Laor, MD; PhD
Contact
nlaor@me.com
+972546441354

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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