People who are at increased stress and at risk for developing physical and mental health problems
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Intervention Group:
2-week prevention program including four key therapeutic elements: (1) stress management intervention: education and psychological coaching (20 h)
(2) relaxation techniques (mindfulness and self-perception methods, Autogenic training, and Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) after Jacobson (12 h), massages (3 h))
(3) physical exercise (moderate endurance training 4 h, back exercises 2 h, aqua-fitness 4 h)
(4) Balneotherapy (moor or sulphur baths followed by a resting period 4 h)
telephone coaching (four conversations – one, two, four, and six months after the completion of the prevention program (telephone calls, about 20 – 30 minutes each)
Group 2: 2-week prevention program
Sponsors
Lehrstuhl für Public Health und Versorgungsforschung am IBE, Fachbereich Medizinische Klimatologie, Kurortmedizin und Prävention, LMU München
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: participants need to be still working; insured by the agricultural old-age insurance of SVLFG; stable physical (cardiovascular system, respiratory tract) and mental state, at least moderate exercise capacity; high motivation and interest; written consent is given; willingness to be randomized into one of the two study groups
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Acute, infectious or immunosuppressive disease; Open, superinfected wound conditions on the Body; Oncological disease that requires Treatment; Symptomatic and chronic mental and neurological disorders that require treatment (e.g. moderate to severe depressive episode, anxiety disorder, dementia disorders, epilepsy and other seizure disorders, acute episode of multiple sclerosis, etc.); Acute and chronic advanced diseases of the cardiovascular system (e.g. Arterial hypertension with hypertensive derailment, chronic heart failure NYHA Class III-IV, etc.); Acute and severe chronic diseases of the respiratory tract (e.g. Bronchial asthma with recurrent status asthmaticus, COPD-Gold III + IV, etc.)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Perceived Stress (Perceived Stress Questionnaire - PSQ) - pre, and 1, 3, 6, 9 months follow up | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| pre, post (2 weeks), 1, 3, 6, 9 months: use of medications, alcohol consumption, nicotine consumption, well-being (World Health Organization 5-item Well-Being Index - WHO-5), health status / health-related quality of life (EuroQol (EQ-5D-5L) general health index), depression (Patient Health Questionnaire – PHQ-2), anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder – GAD-2), pain frequency in the past 4 weeks (no / now and then / periodically /often / very often or permanently), pain intensity (11–point Numeric Rating Scale) pre, 1, 3, 6, 9 months: sleep disturbances (Insomnia Severity Index -ISI), self-efficacy (Allgemeine Selbstwirksamkeit Kurzskala - ASKU), burnout symptoms (Maslach Burnout Inventory–General Survey - MBI-GS-D) pre, 3, 6, 9 months: health-related behavior pre, 9 months: ability to work (Work Ability Index - WAI) | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactDieter Frisch
Lehrstuhl für Public Health und Versorgungsforschung am IBE, Fachbereich Medizinische Klimatologie, Kurortmedizin und Prävention, LMU München
Outcome results
None listed