NCT05307107

Educators' Digital Occupational Well-being Intervention During Working Hours

Recognize the Power Within and SHINE - Educators' Digital Occupational Well-being Intervention in Health and Social Care Education

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Turku · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Well-being
• Physical Activity
• Recovery
• Self Regulation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SHINE	Intervention group will use a 8-workweeks the digital Smart Break SHINE program with workplace support (encouragement and time-support) including daily 3 minutes break exercises twice a day; 1) physical exercise - break and 2) body/mind breathing exercise - break earning stars for exercise completed. The program includes weekly self-reflective task of individual well-being during working hours with weekly changing theme (avoiding sitting time, nature benefits, relaxation exercises, increasing physical activity in workplace etc.) earning diamonds for every weekly task completed. Participants self-monitors their weekly individual resources levels asked in every Thursday (1-5, 1= very poor. 5= very good). Program includes e-mail remainders set by participant themselves for suitable time frame These individual well-being actions takes approximately 15 minutes/workday. Control group will receive this program after this study (waitlist protocol).

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-02-07
• Primary completion: 2022-05-29
• Completion: 2022-05-29
• First posted: 2022-04-01
• Last updated: 2022-12-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland