Digital Therapeutic Workplace Technology as a Employee Management Tool and Employee's Mental Health Care
- Conditions
- DepressionMental Health Issue
- Registration Number
- NCT06295185
- Lead Sponsor
- Ajou University School of Medicine
- Brief Summary
The purpose of the study is to determine whether a digital healthcare app for employee's mental health can effectively improve the mental health of Hisbeans's employees and the managerial performance of Hisbeans, which is represented as a 'social enterprise'.
- Detailed Description
Hisbeans is a social enterprise where employees are consist of individual with mental disabilities.
'Hisbeans' employees(N = 150 subjects) will be randomly assigned to Group 1 (maro intervention), or Group 2 (control app intervention) by cluster randomization depending on the branch of the company.
* MARO intervention group: MARO (mental health digital application) use
* Control group: sham app use
The intervention period will be 8weeks.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- NOT_YET_RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 150
- HISBEANS store employees
- Age: 18 years old or older
- possessing a smartphone with internet connection
- subjects agree to participate in the study
- Those who have symptoms of psychotic disorder are acutely active or advanced, making clinical intervention difficult
- Those who has been started or changed their antidepressant medication within the last 1 month or cannot be maintained stably during the intervention period
- Those who are non-literate
- Those who have used the Maro app previously
- Those who couldn't use Maro app in their own smartphone
- Those who participate in another intervention study
- Those who have a serious medical condition that prevents them from participating in the intervention and efficacy evaluation
- Those who is unable to participate fully and cooperatively by the judgment of the researcher
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in network on the Standard Name Generator Approach scale 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: A validated self-reported list of names assessing the subject's network scores
* minimum and maximum values: from no name to the maximum available subject employees in the focal company that subject employees work for
* score meaning: an individual subject generating more names means he or she has more connected people in the companyChange in depression symptoms severity on the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing the severity of depression symptom
* minimum and maximum values: 9-item scale with total scores between 0 and 27
* score meaning: higher scores indicate greater symptoms severity
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in positive psychological capital on Korean version of Positive Psychological Capital Scale 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing positive psychological capital, which consist of self-efficacy, hope, optimism, and resilience
* minimum and maximum values: 18-item scale with total scores between 18 and 90
* score meaning: higher scores indicate greater Positive Psychological CapitalChange in sense of meaningfulness for job on the Sense of Meaningfulness for Job Scale 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing the sense of meaningfulness toward one's job
* minimum and maximum values: a 6-item scale with total scores between 0 and 42
* score meaning: higher scores indicate greater sense of meaningfulness for jobChange in work orientation toward his or her job on the Work Orientation Scale 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing one's work orientation toward his or her job
* minimum and maximum values: categorical values among 'economic-value group', 'achievement group', and 'calling group'
* score meaning: one sorting into a certain categorical value means one suchChange in stress regulation skill on the Emotional/Cognitive/Behavioral State Questionnaire 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: self-reported questionnaire assessing stress regulation skill
* minimum and maximum values: 3-item scale with total scores between 3 and 30
* score meaning: higher scores indicate greater stress regulation skillChange in anxiety symptoms severity on the General Anxiety Disorder-7items scale 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing the severity of anxiety symptom
* minimum and maximum values: 7-item scale with total scores between 0 and 21
* score meaning: higher scores indicate greater symptoms severityChange in perceived stress level on the Perceived Stress Scale 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing perceived stress
* minimum and maximum values: 10 scale with total scores between 0 and 40
* score meaning: higher scores indicate greater perceived stressChange in social capital on the Social Capital Scale 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: Based on the validated self-reported name assessing the person's network scores, researchers calculate the inverse degree to which individuals hold less constraints in the network landscape
* minimum and maximum values: a scale between 0 and 1 multiplied by the number of subjects individuals
* score meaning: higher scores indicate greater social capitalChange in perceived workload on the Perceived Workload Scale 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing the complexity of jobs and the work-related stress
* minimum and maximum values: a 4-item scale with total scores between 0 and 28
* score meaning: higher scores indicate greater perceived workloadChange in firm performance on the Company weekly sales records 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: Validated objective measure of firm's performance assessing the department's weekly revenue
* minimum and maximum values: a monetary scale between 0 and possibly generatable revenue during firm's operation time
* score meaning: higher sales indicate greater firm performanceChange in Organizational Companionship on Organizational Culture Inventory 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing Organizational Companionship
* minimum and maximum values: 28-item scale with total scores between 28 and 196
* score meaning: higher scores indicate a higher degress of organizational companionshipChange in job self-efficacy on the Job Self-Efficacy Scale 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing the efficacy of one's job and tasks
* minimum and maximum values: a 11-item scale with total scores between 0 and 77
* score meaning: higher scores indicate greater job self-efficacyChange in amsenteeism/leaves on the absenteeism/leave scales for employees with severe mental disabilities 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: Validated numeric, objective measure assessing the individual employees' absenteeism or turnover cases, among which we also measure the employees with severe mental disabilities.
* minimum and maximum values: the number of individuals scale between 0 and the maximum possible employees working for the firm.
* score meaning: higher number indicates greater amsenteeism/leavesChange in social functioning on Social Adaptation Self Rating Scale 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing social motivation and behavior
* minimum and maximum values: 21-item scale with total scores between 21 and 84
* score meaning: higher scores indicate greater social functioningChange in sense of psychological safety on the Perception of Psychological Safety Scale of Company Employees 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing one's perception of psychological safety within the company
* minimum and maximum values: a 7-item scale with average scores between 0 and 7
* score meaning: higher scores indicate greater sense of psychological safetyChange in individual's social network on Lubben Social Network Scale-18 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment * Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing an individual's social network of relatives, friends, and neighbors.
* minimum and maximum values: 18-item scale with total scores between 0 and 90
* score meaning: higher scores indicate a larger social network
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Trial Locations
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Ajou Medical University
🇰🇷Suwon, Korea, Republic of
Ajou Medical University🇰🇷Suwon, Korea, Republic of