Educators' Digital Occupational Well-being Intervention During Working Hours (SHINE)

University of Turku

Status: Completed

Conditions: Self Regulation; Well-being; Physical Activity; Recovery

Treatments: Behavioral: SHINE

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05307107

University of Turku_UTurku

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group (IG)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants are educators working in health and social care education receiving 8 work week-SHINE.

Treatment:

Behavioral: SHINE

Control group (CG)

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants are educators working in health and social care education without the program continuing their normal daily routines receiving SHINE for their voluntary use after this study (waitlist).