Sustained resiliency building and burnout reduction for healthcare professionals via organizational sponsored mindfulness programming

Synchronous Mindfulness in Motion Online: Strong Results, Strong Attendance at a Critical Time for Health Care Professionals (HCPs) in the COVID Era

“…In addition, medical students' perceived stress levels significantly decreased while self-compassion levels significantly increased 4 months beyond intervention end (Moore et al, 2020). While other studies have shown immediate improvements following online mindfulness interventions, this study points to sustainable outcomes that can lead to a more mindful healthcare professional population (Klatt et al, 2021).…”

“…Analyses show that the decreases in perceived stress and burnout, as well as the increase in resilience, were still significantly improved between pre and follow-up time points, with the average follow-up time being 12.2 months. The results for work engagement were not significant, though still trended in the positive direction (Klatt et al, 2021).…”

“…Without a fidelity checking system, the internal validity of the results were at risk. Because internal validity was established, dissemination could be expanded in order to measure external validity to see if results are sustainable for over a year after the end of the 8-week program (Klatt et al, 2021). Analyses show that the decreases in perceived stress and burnout, as well as the increase in resilience, were still significantly improved between pre and follow-up time points, with the average follow-up time being 12.2 months.…”

“…Mindfulnessbased interventions successfully reduce burnout among HCPs, leading to downstream benefits affecting HCPs themselves, the patients they care for, and the health system who employs them (Luken and Sammons, 2016). Mindfulness in Motion (MIM), one such mindfulness-based intervention designed specifically for HCPs, has been studied in detail with strong results showing burnout reductions (Klatt et al, 2015(Klatt et al, , 2018(Klatt et al, , 2021Steinberg et al, 2017;Moffatt-Bruce et al, 2019;Klatt M. D. et al, 2020). Until now, this program, like most research surrounding mindfulness-based interventions for HCPs, has focused on inperson interventions, though other virtual mindfulness-based interventions have been studied and reported in the literature.…”

Mindfulness Is Associated With Lower Stress and Higher Work Engagement in a Large Sample of MOOC Participants

“…Work engagement is an important indicator of employee wellbeing and organizational performance (Seppälä et al, 2009;Xanthopoulou et al, 2009) but this construct has been infrequently studied in mindfulness intervention research (Malinowski and Lim, 2015;Bartlett et al, 2019). Recent evidence on the face-to-face delivery of MBIs such as MBSR indicate that it can be effective in increasing resilience (Klatt et al, 2021) and work engagement at the same time as reducing burnout (Lo et al, 2021) but it is currently unclear whether similar benefits can be derived from scalable and affordable brief online MBIs. Our findings that mindfulness training is clearly associated with higher engagement-and in particular, patterns of adaptive engagement-thus offer an additional contribution to the literature but further research and different methodology are required to establish whether this relationship is causal.…”