Flourishing App: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Well-being Application for Mobile Devices
- Conditions
- Emotional Stress
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Flourishing App Program
- Registration Number
- NCT02637414
- Lead Sponsor
- Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
- Brief Summary
This protocol proposes a well-being program, delivered through an application for mobile devices, based on meditation and positive psychology principles such as human development, the improvement of virtues, quality of life and well-being. The investigators hypothesize that this program offered in mobile application may promote well-being and reduce stress related problems in the participants.
Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of a well-being program delivered through an application for mobile devices in a sample of employees who work in a company (Natura Inovação/Cosméticos) and in a hospital (Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein).
Methods: Two hundred and fifty employees from Natura Inovação/Cosméticos and 250 employees from Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein will be recruited. The participants will be randomized in two groups of 125 participants each one, half of them in the control group (GC) and the other half to the intervention group (GI), by institution.
- Detailed Description
Introduction: Stress related disorders may result in absenteeism and less productivity in companies. This protocol proposes a well-being program, delivered through an application for mobile devices, based on meditation and positive psychology principles such as human development, the improvement of virtues, quality of life and well-being. In the modern world not all people are willing to attend classroom training for several reasons. In this sense, the investigators hypothesize that this program offered in mobile application may promote well-being and reduce stress related problems in the participants.
Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of a well-being program delivered through an application for mobile devices in a sample of employees who work in a company (Natura Inovação/Cosméticos) and in a hospital (Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein).
Methods: Two hundred and fifty employees from Natura Inovação/Cosméticos and 250 employees from Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein will be recruited. The participants will be randomized in two groups of 125 participants each one, half of them in the control group (GC) and the other half to the intervention group (GI), by institution. The GI will participate in the Flourishing App Program, for eight weeks, while the GC will have access to a Control App. Then, after the evaluations, the GC will receive the intervention (Flourishing App Program), while the first group will not receive any intervention. Questions will be applied to evaluate the levels of stress and well-being of participants before and after the program and before and after each training period.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 500
- Female aging from 18 to 60
- Complete higher education
- Employees from Natura Inovação/Cosméticos and from Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
- none
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Flourishing App Program Flourishing App Program This group will receive the intervention Flourishing App Program and after that it will not receive any other intervention.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Changes in subjective symptoms of well-being at work baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks Sliding scale for stress level from 0 to 100
Changes in subjective symptoms of stress baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks Sliding scale for well-being level from 0 to 100
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Changes in subjective symptoms of well-being at the moment assessed using the sliding scale for well-being four times a week, before and after the period of each class (20 min) Sliding scale for well-being level from 0 to 100
Changes in subjective symptoms of stress at the moment assessed using the sliding scale for stress four times a week, before and after the period of each class (20 min) Sliding scale for stress level from 0 to 100
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
🇧🇷Sao Paulo, Brazil