Effectiveness of a Mobile Application in Improving Employees' Social Well-being.

University of Eastern Finland

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Depressive Symptoms; Loneliness; Social Support; Social Isolation

Treatments: Behavioral: Frendie PRO mobile application

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06495801

240128

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this cluster randomized controlled trial is to learn if using Frendie PRO mobile application at workplaces improves social well-being in employees. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does using Frendie PRO mobile application at work for 6 months reduce loneliness in employees? Does using Fendie PRO mobile application at work for 6 months reduce social isolation in employees?

Researchers will compare employees from workplaces that use the Frendie PRO mobile application to employees from workplaces that do not use the mobile application to see if there are differences in their levels of social well-being (loneliness, social isolation, perceived social support, depressive symptoms).

Participants will be given access to the Frendie PRO mobile application and encouraged to use it by employers.

Full description

Participants will be recruited from workplaces that use the Frendie PRO mobile application. After collecting baseline data, each workplace will be randomly assigned to treatment or control conditions. The unit of randomization is a workplace (or a team or department in bigger organizations).

The intervention group will be encouraged to download and start using the Frendie PRO mobile application. The control group will be informed of the date when they will have access to it (six months after the baseline).

Both groups are asked to participate in two follow-ups - a 3-month follow-up and a 6-month follow-up.

Enrollment: 1,012 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All employees working at the company/team/department participating in the study and starting to use the Frendie PRO mobile application within the study period.
• Ability to fill the questionnaires online in Finnish

Exclusion criteria

• incapable of using questionnaire online
• does not know Finnish well enough to answer the questions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,012 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Frendie PRO mobile application

Wait-list controls

No Intervention group

Description:

The group will have access to the mobile application after the six-month follow-up period.