Clinical trial NCT02396797: Effect Evaluation of a Workplace Intervention Targeting Subjective Health Complaints
Official title: Effect Evaluation of a Workplace Intervention Targeting Subjective Health Complaints on Sick Leave, Coping, Health, Job Satisfaction and Social Support
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mental Disorders
Back Pain
Anxiety
Depression
Keywords: Sick leave
Mental Health
Coping
Social Support
Subjective Health Complaints
Lead sponsor: NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: The Hospital of Vestfold
First posted: 2015-03-24
Enrollment: 1011
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 67
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Mental disorders is one of the most frequent causes of long-term sick leave and disability pensions in Norway, and there is a need for a comprehensive, coordinated response from health and social sectors at the country level to address the burden of mental disorders. The aim of this project is to investigate if a workplace intervention with the aim to increase coping of common mental health complaints and social support can reduce sick leave and improve health.

Detailed description: The atWork intervention was established in 2007 as a new stepped-care approach to musculoskeletal complaints. The intervention consisted of workplace information meetings about musculoskeletal complaint to all employees and peer support. The atWork intervention targeting musculoskeletal complaints reduced sick leave and improved health in a randomized controlled trial. The atWork intervention has now been further developed with the aim to increase effect on sick leave and health. The intervention is now extended to include information about mental health complaints, in addition to a management course. The major societal costs and the negative consequences common mental health complaints induce underline the importance of testing if atWork is an effective way of reducing these consequences.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Norwegian primary education unit.
* Participants must be employed in one of the Norwegian primary education units participating in the study.
* Participants must have sufficient Norwegian reading and writing skills.

Exclusion Criteria:

* The organization has received the atWork intervention at an earlier time.
* Participants are not employed in one of the participating organizations.
* Participants do not have sufficient Norwegian reading and writing skills.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Sick leave, unit level
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Coping Expectancies; Theoretically Originated Measure of the Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress, TOMCATS
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Health; self-rated health, Subjective Health Complaints Inventory, SHC, Hopkins Symptom Checklist, HSCL-10
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Job Satisfaction; Global Job Satisfaction, GJO, Demand-Control-Support-Questionnaire, short Swedish version
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Social Support; Non directive and Directive Support Survey, NDSS-16.
timeFrame: 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bergen
country: Norway
facility: Torill Helene Tveito
Study officials:
affiliation: Uni Research Health
name: Torill H Tveito, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Johnsen TL, Eriksen HR, Baste V, Indahl A, Odeen M, Tveito TH. Effect of Reassuring Information About Musculoskeletal and Mental Health Complaints at the Workplace: A Cluster Randomized Trial of the atWork Intervention. J Occup Rehabil. 2019 Jun;29(2):274-285. doi: 10.1007/s10926-018-9786-6.
citation: Johnsen TL, Eriksen HR, Indahl A, Tveito TH. Directive and nondirective social support in the workplace - is this social support distinction important for subjective health complaints, job satisfaction, and perception of job demands and job control? Scand J Public Health. 2018 May;46(3):358-367. doi: 10.1177/1403494817726617. Epub 2017 Aug 18.
citation: Johnsen TL, Indahl A, Baste V, Eriksen HR, Tveito TH. Protocol for the atWork trial: a randomised controlled trial of a workplace intervention targeting subjective health complaints. BMC Public Health. 2016 Aug 19;16(1):844. doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-3515-x.