Clinical trial NCT06495801: Effectiveness of a Mobile Application in Improving Employees' Social Well-being.
Official title: Työntekijöiden Sosiaalisen Hyvinvoinnin lisääminen Mobiilisovelluksen Avulla (Effectiveness of a Mobile Application in Improving Employees' Social Well-being)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Loneliness
Social Isolation
Social Support
Depressive Symptoms
Keywords: loneliness
work well-being
social well-being
Lead sponsor: University of Eastern Finland
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Finnish Work Environment Fund
First posted: 2024-07-11
Enrollment: 1012
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 16
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Participants of the intervention group are given access and encouraged to use Frendie PRO mobile application
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The goal of this cluster randomized controlled trial is to learn if using Frendie PRO mobile application at workplaces improves social well-being in employees. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does using Frendie PRO mobile application at work for 6 months reduce loneliness in employees? Does using Fendie PRO mobile application at work for 6 months reduce social isolation in employees?

Researchers will compare employees from workplaces that use the Frendie PRO mobile application to employees from workplaces that do not use the mobile application to see if there are differences in their levels of social well-being (loneliness, social isolation, perceived social support, depressive symptoms).

Participants will be given access to the Frendie PRO mobile application and encouraged to use it by employers.

Detailed description: Participants will be recruited from workplaces that use the Frendie PRO mobile application. After collecting baseline data, each workplace will be randomly assigned to treatment or control conditions. The unit of randomization is a workplace (or a team or department in bigger organizations).

The intervention group will be encouraged to download and start using the Frendie PRO mobile application. The control group will be informed of the date when they will have access to it (six months after the baseline).

Both groups are asked to participate in two follow-ups - a 3-month follow-up and a 6-month follow-up.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* All employees working at the company/team/department participating in the study and starting to use the Frendie PRO mobile application within the study period.
* Ability to fill the questionnaires online in Finnish

Exclusion Criteria:

* incapable of using questionnaire online
* does not know Finnish well enough to answer the questions

Primary outcomes:
measure: Loneliness
timeFrame: Will be measured three times: baseline, 3-month follow-up and 6-month follow-up
measure: Social Isolation
timeFrame: Will be measured three times: baseline, 3-month follow-up and 6-month follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Social support
timeFrame: Will be measured three times: baseline, 3-month follow-up and 6-month follow-up
measure: Depressive symptoms
timeFrame: Will be measured three times: baseline, 3-month follow-up and 6-month follow-up
measure: Workplace loneliness
timeFrame: Will be measured three times: baseline, 3-month follow-up and 6-month follow-up
Other outcomes:
measure: Activity and behavior on the application
timeFrame: 6 months
Locations:
city: Kuopio
country: Finland
facility: University of Eastern Finland
state: North Savonia
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Eastern Finland
name: Siiri-Liisi Kraav, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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