Trial reportWorkplace health & safety2023
A Smartphone App to Reduce Burnout in the Emergency Department: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Supporting emergency departments workers well-being: a systematic review of the literature on interventions.Internal and emergency medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Compassion Satisfaction Interventions via Mobile Applications: A Systematic Review and a Meta-Analysis.Worldviews on evidence-based nursing · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions to reduce burnout in emergency medicine: a national inventory of the Canadian experience to support global implementation of wellness initiatives.Internal and emergency medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Digital resilience interventions for healthcare workers: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- An evidence-informed framework for workforce well-being and burnout prevention in emergency medicine.Internal and emergency medicine · 2026Review
- Mobile health for mental health: a pilot study on well-being, burnout, and stress among healthcare professionals.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Effects of Third-Wave Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Healthcare Professionals' Burnout: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundBurnout is a significant concern among health care professionals, particularly those working in the emergency department (ED). Given the negative personal and professional consequences that burnout can have on all health care professionals, multidisciplinary solutions are needed to address burnout. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility and potential impact of resilience training delivered through a smartphone application on burnout among health care professionals working at a tertiary-care pediatric ED.
methodsWe conducted a single-center pilot randomized controlled study enrolling multidisciplinary health care professionals working in our ED. Participants assigned to the intervention group received self-driven access to a smartphone application that provided a structured resilience curriculum for a period of 3 months. The participants completed psychometric assessments both prior to and following the invention period. Changes in psychometric measures of the intervention group were then compared with a waitlist-control group.
resultsFollowing the intervention period, a total of 20 participants were included in the final analysis. The change in participant scores on psychometric measures prior to and following the intervention period was calculated. A statistically significant mean decrease in burnout measure (emotional exhaustion subscale of Maslach-Burnout Inventory mean score -5.88, CONCLUSIONS/APPLICATION TO PRACTICE: Our study suggests that a resilience training program delivered using a smartphone application can be an effective intervention in reducing burnout and increasing mindfulness skills. Our study also demonstrated the potential feasibility of a randomized controlled study of burnout within a multidisciplinary group of health care professionals.
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