Clinical trial NCT03306654: Efficacy of Three Online Well-Being Programs to Improve Work-Related Outcomes
Official title: A Randomized Trial Examining the Impact of Three 8-week Online Well-Being Programs on Employment-Related Absenteeism, Engagement, Burnout, Stress, and Resilience
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Well-being
Lead sponsor: Happify Inc.
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
First posted: 2017-10-11
Enrollment: 6000
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Users are randomly assigned between arms after completing baseline assessment and stay in that arm for the duration of the study.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Participants will be randomly assigned between three well-being programs, and assessed with questionnaires before and after the 8-week program, as well as 1-month after the end of the program.

Detailed description: Participants will be randomly assigned between three different well-being programs, with each program lasting 8-weeks and taking place on a simplified research version of the Happify platform. Well-being programs include the unchanged Happify platform, a version of the Happify platform that is designed to engage with specific activities but does not aim to promote positive emotion or reduce negative emotion (i.e., Placebo condition), and a version of the Happify platform that encourages thinking about well-being through quizzes and polls without providing any instructions for promotion (i.e., Wait-list Control). Participants will be asked to complete questionnaires before and after the 8-week program, as well as a 1-month follow-up questionnaire after the program is complete, at which point study participation will end.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* No prior experience on the Happify platform (new user registration)
* Full-time employment

Exclusion Criteria:

* None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Absenteeism (Health and Performance Questionnaire, HPQ [World Health Organization (WHO), 2002])
timeFrame: Change from baseline to 8-week post, 1-month follow-up
measure: Work Engagement (Utrecht Work Engagement Scale [Schaufeli et al., 2002])
timeFrame: Change from baseline to 8-week post, 1-month follow-up
measure: Burnout (Maslach Burnout Inventory [Maslach & Jackson, 1981])
timeFrame: Change from baseline to 8-week post, 1-month follow-up
measure: Job-Related Stress (Stress-related Presenteeism Scale [Gilbreath & Frew, 2008])
timeFrame: Change from baseline to 8-week post, 1-month follow-up
measure: Resilience (composite of Perceived Stress Scale [Cohen et al., 1983], Happify Scale [Carpenter et al., 2016] and Life Orientation Scale, Revised [Scheier & Carver, 1985]).
timeFrame: Change from baseline to 8-week post, 1-month follow-up
measure: Absenteeism (Healthy Days measure [Center for Disease Control (CDC), 2000])
timeFrame: Change from baseline to 8-week post, 1-month follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New York
country: United States
facility: Happify (an online platform -- study is entirely online)
state: New York
Study officials:
References:
citation: Carpenter J, Crutchley P, Zilca RD, Schwartz HA, Smith LK, Cobb AM, Parks AC. Seeing the "Big" Picture: Big Data Methods for Exploring Relationships Between Usage, Language, and Outcome in Internet Intervention Data. J Med Internet Res. 2016 Aug 31;18(8):e241. doi: 10.2196/jmir.5725.