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An intervention to improve mental health of managers and employees in small-medium businesses

Promoting employee mental health through the development of managers' psychological capital: a controlled field experiment

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN62853520
Enrollment
2500
Registered
2009-03-30
Start date
2010-04-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2022-11-07

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Conditions

Depression Mental and Behavioural Disorders Depressive episode

Interventions

The intervention aims to improve the psychological capital of managers as a means of reducing depression risk. The program utilises an interactive DVD format. There are two variants of the experimenta

Sponsors

Australian Research Council (ARC) (Australia)
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: The study is open to male and female managers of small-medium enterprises and male and female employees over the age of 18 years who volunteer to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: There are no exclusion criteria but baseline mental health and treatment history will be assessed.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
1. Mental health: depression symptoms will be assessed with the K-10 depression/anxiety screening instrument and occupational stress will be measured using the Job Tension Index 2. Work outcomes: job satisfaction and self-reported lost productivity from absenteeism and presenteeism 3. Coping and resilience: PsyCAP Inventory and the Cybernetic Coping Scale 4. Intervention satisfaction: intervention participants will be asked to report intervention engagement, compliance, credibility Measured pre- and post-intervention and at 6, 12 and 24 months post-intervention.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Psychosocial work environment (employees only): team affective climate, relational justice and supervisor support. Measured pre- and post-intervention and at 6, 12 and 24 months post-intervention.

Countries

Australia

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026