Resilience Training for Work-related Stress in Employees and the Influence of the Lecture Format on Training Success

ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burnout; Work-Related Stress

Treatments: Other: Resilience training with mobile HRV-BfB based on a blended learning approach (with live lectures); Other: Resilience training with mobile HRV-BfB based on an e-learning approach (with digital lectures)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04897165

STM_05

Details and patient eligibility

About

A study to analyze the psychophysiological effects of a preventative, 4-week resilience training with mobile heart rate variability biofeedback (HRV-BfB) in a workplace setting and the influence of the lecture format (digital vs. live) on the training success.

Full description

This was a three-arm, non-randomized, controlled trial to examine the effects of a preventative, 4-week resilience training with mobile HRV-BfB on work-related stress in white-collar employees. Participants were asked to exercise autonomously three times per day for five minutes with the mobile HRV-BfB device. They additionally attended three lectures at the beginning of the first, third, and forth week. The aim of the lectures was to mediate a theoretical knowledge and to prepare the participants for the autonomous training. To examine the potential influence of the lecture format, one group attended live lectures (blended learning condition) and one group received access to online lectures (e-learning condition). Results of study's outcome measures were compared with a waitlist control group. Outcome measures were assessed at baseline (T0), after the 4-week intervention (T1), and at 4-week follow-up (T2).

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Written informed consent
• Employees of the company at which the study is conducted

Exclusion criteria

• Implanted pacemaker
• Medically diagnosed heart failure or arrhythmia
• Medically prescribed cardiac drugs (e.g., beta-blockers, diuretics, ACE inhibitors, calcium channel blockers, or antiarrhythmic agents)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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90 participants in 3 patient groups

Resilience training with mobile HRV-BfB based on an e-learning approach (with digital lectures)

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Resilience training with mobile HRV-BfB based on an e-learning approach (with digital lectures)

Resilience training with mobile HRV-BfB based on a blended learning approach (with live lectures)

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Resilience training with mobile HRV-BfB based on a blended learning approach (with live lectures)

Waitlist controls

No Intervention group