Clinical trial NCT02445950: With-Me - Technology-Aided Phone Coaching for Occupational Health Study
Official title: With-Me - Technology-Aided Phone Coaching for Occupational Health Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Psychological Stress
Keywords: Coaching
Well-being
Digital Health
Profiling
Customer Satisfaction
User Experience
Occupational Health
Lifestyle
Psychological Stress
Cost-Effectiveness
Guideline Adherence
Lead sponsor: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Firstbeat Technologies Ltd.
name: Mawell Care Ltd
name: Mawell Ltd
name: Oulun Työterveys
name: Technical University of Denmark
First posted: 2015-05-15
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to examine whether the technology (web-based coaching, profiling and suggestion tool) brings added value to the traditional phone coaching in occupational health context. The interventions are phone counseling interventions. The other intervention exploits additionally a specific web-based coaching, profiling and suggestion tool.

Detailed description: The study focuses on mental well-being. The both interventions include intensive and independent phase.

The intensive phase lasts 13 weeks. In the intensive phase, goals for the coaching are defined. Coach calls the customer every two weeks and they discuss about the actions that took place in the previous two weeks and what they need to do in the next two weeks. In the technology-aided arm, customers get and analysis of their change needs via digital tool. Based on the change needs they receive task/goal suggestions from which they need to choose 3. Coach is able to see these choices and exploits it in the coaching. The selected behavioral activation interventions are delivered to customer utilizing a web-based coaching tool.

The independent phase lasts 13 weeks. In the independent phase, technology-aided group is coached via the digital tool. The phone counseling group gets 3 phone calls.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* At least a bachelor level degree
* Age over 18 years
* Decreased psycho-physic state (own assessment)
* Is in a relationship
* Motivated to enhance own well-being and willing to change lifestyle, to do exercises related on mental well-being and relationship
* Willing to use technological wellness coaching tools, familiarity with technology

Exclusion Criteria:

* Work includes night shifts
* Acute health conditions or serious diseases
* Chronical pain affecting functionality
* Long period(s) of absence from work during the coaching period (e.g. long vacation, alternation leave, parental leave, pension)
* Participation in some other study

Primary outcomes:
measure: Time used for coaching
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Psychological wellbeing
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Customer satisfaction for coaching
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Occupational health
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Satisfaction to life situation
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Self-esteem
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Cognitive fusion
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Perceived stress
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Satisfaction to a relationship
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Activeness in conducting tasks
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Carefulness in conducting tasks
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Readiness to change
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Lifestyle
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Number of the changes made to the profile
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Perceived Accuracy of the profiling tool
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Perceived ease of use
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Perceived usefulness
timeFrame: 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Technical University of Denmark
name: Hannu Nieminen, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd
name: Jouni Kaartinen, DSc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Muuraiskangas ST, Honka AM, Junno UM, Nieminen HO, Kaartinen JK. A Technology-Assisted Telephone Intervention for Work-Related Stress Management: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2022 Jul 13;24(7):e26569. doi: 10.2196/26569.