Abbreviated mindfulness intervention for job satisfaction, quality of life, and compassion in primary care clinicians: A pilot study

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 412-420

  Fortney, Luke ^a   Luchterhand, Charlene ^b   Zakletskaia, Larissa ^b   Zgierska, Aleksandra ^b   Rakel, David ^b  

^a Meriter Medical Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Burnout; Clinicians; Compassion; Depression; Job satisfaction; Mindfulness; Physicians; Primary care; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; BURNOUT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COPING BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PILOT STUDY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TIME; ARTICLE; CLINICIANS; COMPASSION; DEPRESSION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STRESS;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS; PHYSICIANS; PILOT PROJECTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

ANXIETY; BURNOUT; CLINICIANS; COMPASSION; DEPRESSION; JOB SATISFACTION; MINDFULNESS; PHYSICIANS; PRIMARY CARE; STRESS;

EID: 84883784288     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.1511     Document Type: Article

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