Smartwatches could be a useful tool in the battle against burnout for health care workers.
Findings from a randomized trial showed physicians who received a smartwatch had a 54% reduction in odds of burnout and significantly improved their resilience scores, too.
“That’s really meaningful,” Lotte N. Dyrbye, MD, MHPE, senior associate dean for faculty well-being and chief well-being officer at University of Colorado School of Medicine, told Healio.
“It’s one more thing in the toolbox for an evidence-based, individual strategy that can immediately support us as physicians while longer-term