Fostering Resilience among Mothers under Stress: “Authentic Connections Groups” for Medical Professionals
Published in Women’s Health Issues, this study report effects of an intervention to foster resilience among female health care providers at high risk for stress and burnout. The results indicate that the intervention leads to improvements in depression and global symptoms as well as long-term positive changes in measures of self-compassion, feeling loved, physical affection received, and parenting stress. The intervention also led to significant reductions in cortisol levels (biological marker of long-term stress). The research suggests that facilitated colleague support groups could be a viable, low-cost, preventive intervention to mitigate burnout and distress for mothers.
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