Digital Therapeutic Workplace Technology as a Employee Management Tool and Employee's Mental Health Care

Ajou University School of Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Health Issue; Depression

Treatments: Other: application MARO; Other: Sham application

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06295185

AJOUIRB-IV-2024-097

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to determine whether a digital healthcare app for employee's mental health can effectively improve the mental health of Hisbeans's employees and the managerial performance of Hisbeans, which is represented as a 'social enterprise'.

Full description

Hisbeans is a social enterprise where employees are consist of individual with mental disabilities.

'Hisbeans' employees(N = 150 subjects) will be randomly assigned to Group 1 (maro intervention), or Group 2 (control app intervention) by cluster randomization depending on the branch of the company.

• MARO intervention group: MARO (mental health digital application) use
• Control group: sham app use

The intervention period will be 8weeks.

Enrollment: 165 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. HISBEANS store employees
2. Age: 18 years old or older
3. possessing a smartphone with internet connection
4. subjects agree to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

1. Those who have symptoms of psychotic disorder are acutely active or advanced, making clinical intervention difficult
2. Those who has been started or changed their antidepressant medication within the last 1 month or cannot be maintained stably during the intervention period
3. Those who are non-literate
4. Those who have used the Maro app previously
5. Those who couldn't use Maro app in their own smartphone
6. Those who participate in another intervention study
7. Those who have a serious medical condition that prevents them from participating in the intervention and efficacy evaluation
8. Those who is unable to participate fully and cooperatively by the judgment of the researcher

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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165 participants in 2 patient groups

mental health treated with digital intervention app 'Maro'

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention group will use 'Maro app' which was developed to improve mental health for 8weeks. Through 8weeks intervention group will record their status more than once a day and utilize specific functions in the app. They will also have meetings once a week in the online chat in order to share their own experience about Maro application use with other employees in the same branch.

Treatment:

Other: application MARO

Digital Sham App

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Control group will use Sham app for 8weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Sham application