How Social Ventures Boost Performance and Sustain Businesses With Digital Therapeutic Workplace Technology (Smartphone App 'Maro') Designed to Support Individual Employee's Mental Health
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 165
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in network on the Standard Name Generator Approach scale
Study Overview
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.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- Single (Participant)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •HISBEANS store employees
- •Age: 18 years old or older
- •possessing a smartphone with internet connection
- •subjects agree to participate in the study
Exclusion Criteria
- •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
Arms & Interventions
mental health treated with digital intervention app 'Maro'
Intervention group will use 'Maro app' which was developed to improve mental health for 8weeks.
Through 8weeks intervention group will record their status more than once a day and utilize specific functions in the app.
They will also have meetings once a week in the online chat in order to share their own experience about Maro application use with other employees in the same branch.
Intervention: application MARO (Other)
Digital Sham App
Control group will use Sham app for 8weeks.
Intervention: Sham application (Other)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in network on the Standard Name Generator Approach scale
Time Frame: 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 company
Change in depression symptoms severity on the Patient Health Questionnaire-9
Time Frame: 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 Outcomes
- Change in positive psychological capital on Korean version of Positive Psychological Capital Scale(4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment)
- Change in sense of meaningfulness for job on the Sense of Meaningfulness for Job Scale(4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment)
- Change in work orientation toward his or her job on the Work Orientation Scale(4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment)
- Change in stress regulation skill on the Emotional/Cognitive/Behavioral State Questionnaire(4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment)
- Change in anxiety symptoms severity on the General Anxiety Disorder-7items scale(4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment)
- Change in perceived stress level on the Perceived Stress Scale(4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment)
- Change in social capital on the Social Capital Scale(4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment)
- Change in perceived workload on the Perceived Workload Scale(4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment)
- Change in firm performance on the Company weekly sales records(4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment)
- Change in Organizational Companionship on Organizational Culture Inventory(4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment)
- Change in job self-efficacy on the Job Self-Efficacy Scale(4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment)
- Change in amsenteeism/leaves on the absenteeism/leave scales for employees with severe mental disabilities(4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment)
- Change in social functioning on Social Adaptation Self Rating Scale(4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment)
- Change in sense of psychological safety on the Perception of Psychological Safety Scale of Company Employees(4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment)
- Change in individual's social network on Lubben Social Network Scale-18(4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment)
Investigators
Chang Hyung Hong
Principal Investigator
Ajou University School of Medicine