Clinical trial NCT05307107: Educators' Digital Occupational Well-being Intervention During Working Hours
Official title: Recognize the Power Within and SHINE - Educators' Digital Occupational Well-being Intervention in Health and Social Care Education
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Well-being
Physical Activity
Recovery
Self Regulation
Keywords: educator
occupational well-being
working hours
physical activity
intervention
recovery
break
Lead sponsor: University of Turku
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: The Trade Union of Education in Finland (OAJ)
name: University of Eastern Finland
First posted: 2022-04-01
Enrollment: 80
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Participants (n=80) are educators working in health and social care education in secondary level education in five different educational organizations, which have similar management systems and providing time-support to implement SHINE during working hours. Organizations are randomly assigned either in intervention group (IG, n=2) receiving SHINE or in control group (CG, n=3) without the program continuing their normal daily routines receiving SHINE for their voluntary use after this study.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This controlled quasi experimental intervention study follows the MRC framework for complex interventions (Bleijenberg et al. 2018) aiming to promote educators' individual aspect of occupational well-being. The purpose of this study is: 1) to evaluate the effectiveness of 8-workweek SHINE (= Self-Help INtervention for Educators) on educator's individual aspect of occupational well-being comparing intervention and control groups and 2) to describe the possible associating factors for the effectiveness of the intervention (if any) and 3) to evaluate SHINE's acceptability (utility and usability) within intervention group.

Detailed description: Overall Occupation Well-being (OW) is seen through four aspects of working life: 1) workers's resources and work (individual aspect), 2) work community, 3) working conditions and 4) professional competence (Saaranen et. al 2007). This study focuses in the individual aspect of OW, worker's resources and work and associating factors. This evidence base digital SHINE intervention is conducted in Finland within five different social and health care educational organizations randomly allocated either in intervention group (n=2) or in control group (n=3). Participants are working as qualified full-time educators in these organizations; intervention group (n=39) and control group (n=41). The intervention consists of four components: 1) physical activity, 2) recovery, 3) self-regulation and 4) workplace support designed to promote worker's resources at work. First three of these components are in digital program called, Smart Break SHINE. Educators' does short 3 minute exercises twice/workday (movement and breathing mind/body exercises) and additionally completes weekly reflective wellness actions during working hours. Last component, workplace support, comes from educators' organizations enabling time support and encouraging educators' to conduct these exercises during working hours taking approximately 10-15 min/workday. Control group continues their normal daily routines without this program.

Aim of this intervention is to promote educators' individual aspect of occupational well-being, the balance between individual resources and workload factors, during working hours. Main outcome is resource-workload-balance (RSW) and heart rate variability (HRV) and secondary outcomes are general well-being (GW) and overall occupational well-being (OW). Other outcomes are SHINE-components being associating factors in individual aspect of OW, physical activity, recovery, self-regulation and workplace support (condition outcomes). Also the usability and utility of the intervention is studied from the intervention group after using the program 8 workweeks.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Working as qualified educator (at least qualification of EQF 7) in secondary health and social care education
* Full-time work contract
* Having at least one-year employment in the organization

Exclusion Criteria:

* having pacemaker or being pregnant (cause of the HRV measures)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in resource-workload-balance
timeFrame: pre (week before enrollment) /post (after 8-workweeks) /follow-up (after 12 weeks of enrollment)
measure: Change in HRV
timeFrame: pre (week before enrollment) /post (after 8-workweeks) /follow-up (after 12 weeks)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in Overall occupational well-being
timeFrame: pre (week before enrollment) /post (after 8-workweeks) /follow-up (after 12 workweeks)
measure: Change in General well-being
timeFrame: pre (week before enrollment) /post (after 8 workweeks) /follow-up (after 12 workweeks)
Other outcomes:
measure: Change of Physical activity_condition
timeFrame: pre (week before enrollment) /post (after 8-workweeks) /follow-up (after 12 workweeks)
measure: Change of Recovery_condition
timeFrame: pre (week before enrollment) /post (after 8-workweeks) /follow-up (after 12 workweeks)
measure: Change of Self-regulation_condition
timeFrame: pre (week before enrollment) /post (after 8-workweeks) /follow-up (after 12 workweeks)
measure: Change of Workplace support_condition
timeFrame: pre (week before enrollment) /post (after 8-workweeks) /follow-up (after 12 workweeks)
measure: Background variables
timeFrame: pre (week before enrollment)
measure: SHINE Acceptability: usability (intervention group)
timeFrame: post 8-workweeks
measure: SHINE Acceptability: usefulness (intervention group)
timeFrame: post 8-workweeks
Locations:
city: Turku
country: Finland
facility: Jenni Rinne
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Turku
name: Helena Leino-Kilpi, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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