Clinical trial NCT05080426: Family Supportive Supervisor Training and Workplace Assessment Tool
Official title: Family Supportive Supervisor Training and Workplace Assessment Tool
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Psychosocial Deprivation
Work-Related Stress
Life-work Imbalance
Keywords: family supportive supervisor behaviors
work-family intervention
supervisor support for family
sick leave
family leave
workplace intervention
work life balance
supervisor training
manager training
work-family conflict
turnover intentions
flexible workplace
psychosocial intervention
Lead sponsor: Work Life Help
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Aging (NIA)
First posted: 2021-10-15
Enrollment: 1175
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The current study employs a cluster randomization strategy to assign organizations to either Condition A (intervention group) or Condition B (control group). One organization will be randomly assigned to the intervention and the other organization to the control group.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study will evaluate the effectiveness of FSST 2.0 (family supportive supervisor training plus support for use of family and sick leaves) using a randomized control trial design. We expect the intervention will increase supervisors' family supportive and leave supportive behaviors, which in turn will increase employees' leave use and decrease employees' work-family conflict, emotional exhaustion, depressive symptoms, and turnover intentions. This study will enroll a minimum 200 groups of managers and their employees. Managers in the intervention condition will complete pre- and 2 post-intervention Workplace Assessments, 2 online training modules, 1 webinar where managers can review intervention content and ask questions and share reactions on the materials. Managers in the control group and employees in both groups will complete pre- and 2 post-intervention Workplace Assessments. The post-intervention Workplace Assessment will be completed 3 and 6 months after the intervention. The total duration of the study is 9 months as the wait list control group will be offered the intervention and 2nd follow up survey after the 6-month trial.

Detailed description: This study will evaluate the effectiveness of FSST 2.0 (family supportive supervisor training plus support for use of family and sick leaves) using a randomized control trial design.

* Phase of the Trial Based on the NIH's definition, the current study is a Phase III clinical trial, which usually involves several hundred or more human subjects, for the purpose of evaluating an experimental intervention in comparison with a standard or controlled intervention or comparing two or more existing treatments.
* Type of trial - a randomized-control trial
* Randomization strategy

  * Randomization method The current study employs a cluster randomization strategy to assign organizations to either Condition A (intervention group) or Condition B (control group) for a few key reasons. First, although only the supervisors will receive the training, the effectiveness of the training will be assessed at the employee' level, thereby needing a nested data structure. Second, cluster randomization is effective in reducing contamination (Puffer et al., 2005). Third, when the intervention is offered at a group level, cluster randomization increases the external validity of the results (Donner \& Klar, 2000). Within each organization, we will use a balanced group randomization strategy such that there will be an equal number of workgroups/teams/departments in the intervention or control condition. In the event that there is an odd number of such units, a slight imbalance (i.e., groups per condition) will be off by one group, which has minimal impact on statistical power to detect intervention effects.
  * Unit of randomization - organization
  * Allocation ratio - the same number of teams (one supervisor and at least 6 employees) will be recruited in both organization
  * Timing of randomization - before the baseline assessment
  * The statistician of the study will generate and implement the randomization schema.
* Specification of the number of study groups/arms - 2
* Duration of the study intervention - 6 months
* Follow-up period - 3 and 5 months after the intervention
* Name and brief description of study intervention FSST 2.0 is a workplace intervention package designed to increase supervisors' family and leave supportive behaviors and leave supportive behaviors. The package includes Workplace Assessment tool, 2 30-45-minute online training modules (family-supportive supervisor training and supervisors' leave supportive behavior training), a webinar, behavior training, and organizational reports.
* Control group The current trial employs a wait-list control group, "whereby participants will receive the usual care and will later receive the intervention in addition to the usual care" (Kinser \& Robins, 2013, p.2).

One or more organization will be randomly assigned to receive the intervention and the other organization(s) will serve as a wait-list control group.

Mangers in the intervention group will be asked to:

1. Complete a baseline online survey.
2. Take the Family Supportive Supervisor Training online (FSST) - http://wlhmodule1.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/
3. Take the Supervisor Support for Leave Use module training online - http://wlhmodule2.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/
4. Track their behaviors for two weeks
5. Participate in a webinar with the opportunity to ask Q \& A and make comments.

7. Complete up to 2 post-training surveys. 8. Focus groups may also be conducted to get feedback on the training after the study is over.

Employees in the control group and employees in both groups will be asked to:

1. Complete a base line and follow up surveys over the course of 5 months.

The wait list control group will be offered the training after the trial is over.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* To be 18 years and older
* To be a supervisor with at least six employees or an employee of a participating supervisor

Exclusion Criteria:

* There is no exclusion criterion.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in Leave Supportive Supervisor Behaviors
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in Work-family Conflict
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in Emotional Exhaustion
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in Employee's Leave Use
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in Turnover Intentions
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in Control Over Work
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in Boundary Countrol
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in Work-life Climate
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in Work-to-family Positive Spillover
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in General Supervisor Support
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in Supervisor Performance Support
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in Job Satisfaction
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in Job Performance
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in Organizational Commitment
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in Perceived Health
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in Psychological Distress
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
measure: Change in Perceived Stress
timeFrame: 5 months after the intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: West Lafayette
country: United States
facility: Purdue University
state: Indiana
Study officials:
affiliation: Work Life Help LLC
name: Ellen E Kossek, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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