Reboot coaching programme: a mixed-methods evaluation assessing resilience, confidence, burnout and depression in medical students.
Medical education
burnout
depression
medical students
resilience
Journal
Scottish medical journal
ISSN: 0036-9330
Titre abrégé: Scott Med J
Pays: Scotland
ID NLM: 2983335R
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 Dec 2023
05 Dec 2023
Historique:
medline:
5
12
2023
pubmed:
5
12
2023
entrez:
5
12
2023
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Poor mental health in medical students is a global concern. Effective interventions are required, which are tailored towards the training-related stressors medical students experience. The Reboot coaching programme is an online, tailored intervention based on cognitive-behavioural principles. To evaluate whether the Reboot coaching programme tailored for medical students was feasible and associated with improvements in mental health outcome indicators. Medical students participated in two group online workshops and a one-to-one coaching call with a Reboot-trained licensed psychological therapist. Participants provided data at: baseline (T1), post-workshops (T2), post-coaching call (T3) and 4-month follow-up (T4). Outcome measures included resilience, confidence, burnout and depression. Feedback was provided regarding the workshops at T2. 115 participants (93/80.9% women; Existing interventions have produced mixed results regarding their effectiveness in improving medical students' mental health. Reboot is a feasible intervention in this group which is associated with improvements in resilience, confidence, burnout and depression. Further controlled studies of Reboot are now needed.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Poor mental health in medical students is a global concern. Effective interventions are required, which are tailored towards the training-related stressors medical students experience. The Reboot coaching programme is an online, tailored intervention based on cognitive-behavioural principles.
AIMS
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate whether the Reboot coaching programme tailored for medical students was feasible and associated with improvements in mental health outcome indicators.
METHODS
METHODS
Medical students participated in two group online workshops and a one-to-one coaching call with a Reboot-trained licensed psychological therapist. Participants provided data at: baseline (T1), post-workshops (T2), post-coaching call (T3) and 4-month follow-up (T4). Outcome measures included resilience, confidence, burnout and depression. Feedback was provided regarding the workshops at T2.
RESULTS
RESULTS
115 participants (93/80.9% women;
CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSIONS
Existing interventions have produced mixed results regarding their effectiveness in improving medical students' mental health. Reboot is a feasible intervention in this group which is associated with improvements in resilience, confidence, burnout and depression. Further controlled studies of Reboot are now needed.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38050379
doi: 10.1177/00369330231213981
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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Declaration of conflicting interestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.