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Show Addressing cardiology faculty and staff wellness by promoting awareness through serial surveys and group discussion Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine Lillian Khor, MD; Adam Valencia, Ms; Lauren Warner BS; Dawn Yong, RN, James Fang, MD INTRODUCTION METHODS FOR IMPROVEMENT Studies suggest a significant prevalence of professional burnout in healthcare characterized by a loss of enthusiasm (emotional exhaustion or EE) and cynicism(depersonalization or DEP) towards others. Although healthcare is perceived to be a meaningful line of employment, the 2017 University of Utah Staff and Faculty Survey suggested that 37% of School of Medicine staff and 38% of cardiology faculty were experiencing burnout. We introduced the concept of wellness to Cardiology Faculty through a presentation at our weekly faculty and fellow conference and observed that many faculty were unaware of or did not recall having received or completed the wellness survey administered, although 14 had responded. We invited cardiology faculty and cardiac rehabilitation staff to participate in a similar wellness survey to the institution wide one administered in 2017, using identical questions addressing EE and DEP and additional questions addressing physical and mental health, clinical versus administrative or academic/research work load, physical and mental health, and lifestyle (including nutrition and exercise). Prior to the survey, the topic of wellness was introduced through emails and group activities within cardiac rehabilitation (CR) and through two announcements in two separate faculty meetings. Problem Investigation 1. A significant prevalence of burn out associated with emotional exhaustion and depersonalization 2. A lack of awareness about the prevalence of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization and work place contributors to this 3. It is unknown how our faculty's physical and mental health, lifestyle (nutrition and exercise), and clinical or academic/research work load are associated with emotional exhaustion and depersonalization Two virtually identical email surveys were administered through two online links created by the Resiliency Center staff within Survey Monkey. The first survey to CR staff contained an additional unique question to the CR staff addressing "willingness to volunteer to orient cardiology faculty to the CR gym equipment." One week was given for anonymous responses and a minimum of 3 positive responses regarding volunteering to orient faculty was considered necessary before the second survey could be administered one week later to cardiology faculty. The second survey contained an additional question unique to the faculty survey, addressing faculty "interest in having access to the CR gym and equipment during office hours." RESULTS 1 Survey response rates: CR staff: 7 Cardiology Faculty: 16/48 (33%) 2 Burnout rates: CR Staff: 3/7 (42.8%) EE and 4/7 (57%) DEP once a month or more Cardiology Faculty: 8/16 (50%) EE and 9/16 (56.25%) DEP once a month or more 3 Meeting Federal Activity Guidelines of 30 minutes of moderate exercise at least 5 days of the week: CR Staff: 3/7 (42.86%) Cardiology Staff: 5/16 (31.25%) and 8/16 (50%) were interested in access to the CR gym PROJECT INSIGHTS CR Staff priorities Please rank the top three things which would improve well-being for you or others? Please number 1-3 in decreasing order of importance (leave the rest of the options blank). 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 Validated one item questions addressing EE and DEP: Score 0 Faculty priorities Please rank the top three things which would improve well-being for you or others? Please number 1-3 in decreasing order of importance (leave the rest of the options blank). 25 20 15 10 5 0 Score |
