Occupational mental health and social support in the gig economy workforce Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Conditions
Interventions
Participants were randomly assigned (1:1 ratio) to one of two conditions, with stratification by age group, sex, and type of gig work. Allocation was determined by a computer-generated random sequence
all interactions proceeded autonomously between the AI and participants.
Full system prompts in both Japanese and English are publicly available on the Open Science Framework.
Sponsors
Kyoto University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 64 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Adults registered as workers on the Lancers crowdsourcing platform in Japan 2. Currently engaged in gig work at least once per week 3. Able to read, understand, and respond to survey items in Japanese 4. Provided informed consent for participation, including consent for data use in academic publications and for interactions with AI chatbots 5. Successfully completed the screening survey including attention check items
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Provided duplicate responses to the screening survey 2. Completed the screening survey in substantially shorter time than reasonably expected (suggesting careless responding) 3. Showed high rates of missing data on the screening survey 4. Failed attention check items embedded in the screening survey
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactYasushi Watanabe
Outcome results
None listed