NCT02445950

With-Me - Technology-Aided Phone Coaching for Occupational Health Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Psychological Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Technology-aided phone wellness counselling	The intervention provides phone wellness counselling with the help of web-based interventions, digital profiling and suggestion tool in occupational health.
BEHAVIORAL	Phone wellness counselling	The intervention provides phone wellness counseling in occupational health.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-11-01
• Primary completion: 2015-11-01
• Completion: 2016-01-01
• First posted: 2015-05-15
• Last updated: 2016-04-26