With-Me - Technology-Aided Phone Coaching for Occupational Health Study
- Conditions
- Psychological Stress
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Phone wellness counsellingBehavioral: Technology-aided phone wellness counselling
- Registration Number
- NCT02445950
- Lead Sponsor
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to examine whether the technology (web-based coaching, profiling and suggestion tool) brings added value to the traditional phone coaching in occupational health context. The interventions are phone counseling interventions. The other intervention exploits additionally a specific web-based coaching, profiling and suggestion tool.
- Detailed Description
The study focuses on mental well-being. The both interventions include intensive and independent phase.
The intensive phase lasts 13 weeks. In the intensive phase, goals for the coaching are defined. Coach calls the customer every two weeks and they discuss about the actions that took place in the previous two weeks and what they need to do in the next two weeks. In the technology-aided arm, customers get and analysis of their change needs via digital tool. Based on the change needs they receive task/goal suggestions from which they need to choose 3. Coach is able to see these choices and exploits it in the coaching. The selected behavioral activation interventions are delivered to customer utilizing a web-based coaching tool.
The independent phase lasts 13 weeks. In the independent phase, technology-aided group is coached via the digital tool. The phone counseling group gets 3 phone calls.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 50
- At least a bachelor level degree
- Age over 18 years
- Decreased psycho-physic state (own assessment)
- Is in a relationship
- Motivated to enhance own well-being and willing to change lifestyle, to do exercises related on mental well-being and relationship
- Willing to use technological wellness coaching tools, familiarity with technology
- Work includes night shifts
- Acute health conditions or serious diseases
- Chronical pain affecting functionality
- Long period(s) of absence from work during the coaching period (e.g. long vacation, alternation leave, parental leave, pension)
- Participation in some other study
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Traditional counseling Phone wellness counselling Customers receive intervention via traditional phone wellness counseling. The intensive phase lasts 13 weeks and includes 5 phone calls. Change needs and goals are set during the phone calls. The independent phase lasts 13 weeks and includes 3 phone calls. Technology-aided counseling Technology-aided phone wellness counselling Customers receive intervention via technology-aided phone wellness counseling. The intensive phase lasts 13 weeks and includes 5 phone calls. The customers are able to view their change change needs and choose tasks/goals for the coaching. The independent phase lasts 13 weeks and coaching is done via a digital tool.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Time used for coaching 6 months Measured by the coaches' working time dedicated to coaching from manual logs and Movendos log. This is used to evaluate the cost of coaching.
Psychological wellbeing 6 months Measured by the Työoptimi occupational health questionnaire. This is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the coaching.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Customer satisfaction for coaching 6 months Measured by ad hoc questionnaires.
Carefulness in conducting tasks 6 months Self-assessment measured via phone interviews and questionnaires.
Cognitive fusion 6 months Measured by 7-item Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire
Number of the changes made to the profile 1 month Data from the profiling database.
Perceived ease of use 6 months Measured by questionnaires to customers, questionnaires and interview to coaches.
Occupational health 6 months Measured by Työoptimi occupational health questionnaire.
Perceived stress 6 months Measured by a single-item stress scale.
Satisfaction to a relationship 6 months The scale is modified from The Family Federation of Finland's quality test of a relationship.
Readiness to change 6 months Readiness to change scale measured by questionnaire based on Transtheoretical Model (Stages of Change).
Perceived usefulness 6 months Measured by the questionnaires to customers, questionnaires and interview to coaches.
Lifestyle 6 months Evaluated by ad hoc questionnaire on amount of sleep, alcohol consumption and smoking, and eating habits.
Perceived Accuracy of the profiling tool 1 month Assessed by the coaches via questionnaires.
Satisfaction to life situation 6 months Measured by scale from 1 to 5.
Self-esteem 6 months Measured by 10-item Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale.
Activeness in conducting tasks 6 months Self-assessment measured via phone interviews and questionnaires.