Mental Health Wellness 1
Conditions
Keywords
mindfulness meditation, mental health promotion, worker
Brief summary
The aims of the study are to determine the effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Interventionas a workplace health promotion program on psychological distress, prolonged fatigue, job strain (job control and job demand), and perceived stress and to explore the influences of personal characteristics (including gender, age, education, and occupation) on the outcomes of the intervention with time.
Detailed description
This study was one component of the Taiwan Workplace Mental Health Promotion Scheme. The study adopted a study design of a randomized controlled trial. Two large-scale manufacturing factories were chosen for this study. All of the factories' 3270 full-time employees were requested to fill in a questionnaire comprising questions regarding mental health and job strain. Of these employees, 2849 individuals were willing to complete the questionnaire. A total of 431 employees (15.13%) were found to be in psychological distress with job strain. The screening procedure was carried out between June and July in 2011. A letter of invitation with an introduction to MBI was sent to these employees. Of these 431 employees, only 144 responded that they would be willing to take part voluntarily in the study. These 144 workers were allocated randomly into the intervention group (Group I, n=72) or the waiting-list control group (Group C, n=72). All the participants were measured five times with an interval of four weeks between measurements. These measurements were taken at pre-intervention (T1), at mid-intervention (T2), at the completion of intervention (T3), four weeks after intervention (T4), and eight weeks after intervention (T5). The data related with the effectiveness of the intervention were obtained between August and December in 2011.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALmindulness-based intervention
A number of mindfulness techniques, including both formal and informal practices with integration in the context of Mind/Body meditation, were explored in order to cultivate moment-by-moment present awareness with non-judgmental acceptance.
Sponsors
Changhua Christian Hospital
Chung Shan Medical University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Healthy employees with psychological distress and job strain * Full-time paid workers
Exclusion criteria
* Age \< 18y or \> 65y * Part-time workers * The workers are not willing to take part in the study
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| psychological distress | four months | Psychological distress was measured by the Chinese Health Questionnaire (CHQ-12), a well-validated instrument |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| prolonged fatigue | Four months | Prolonged fatigue was measured by The Checklist Individual Strength questionnaire (CIS), which confirmed discriminant validity and convergent validity. |
| job strain | four months | The Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) was used to assess job control and job demands (job strain). |
| perceived stress | four months | The 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) was adopted to measure a global level of perceived stress. |
Countries
Taiwan
Outcome results
None listed