ArticleHawai'i journal of health & social welfare2024
The Impact of a Commensality Intervention on Physician Burnout.
Article in Hawai'i journal of health & social welfare, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Commensality as community rebuilding: A qualitative study of physician shared meals in a hospital setting.Journal of hospital medicine · 2026Article
- What do we really know about addressing burnout among healthcare workers? Maybe less than we think.Health affairs scholar · 2026Article
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Abstract
Commensality, the act of eating together, when organized around facilitated discussion is an evidence-based intervention that can promote engagement and reduce physician burnout. The purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptance, and impact of a commensality intervention for physicians. The Commensality Intervention was based on a Mayo Clinic model that consisted of 6, 2-hour dinner meetings at local restaurants over 6 months with facilitated discussion. Seven physicians participated, with controls matched by specialty and career stage. All completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory and Areas of Worklife Survey (MBI/AWS) at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months. Results were analyzed using Mann-Whitney tests for comparison of intervention group members to controls. At baseline, 4 of 7 in the intervention group and 3 of 7 controls met criteria for burnout. At 6 months, MBI improved in all dimensions: emotional exhaustion (EE) 24.3 to 17.2; depersonalization (DP) 7.1 to 5.1; personal accomplishment (PA) 40.0 to 43.3. Improvement in EE was significantly greater for intervention group members vs. controls (
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