Smartphone-based Stress Management Intervention for Employees

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stress, Psychological

Treatments: Behavioral: Stress guide

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT03222479

B-1206/158-112

Details and patient eligibility

About

Participants were able to use the application the investigators developed for four weeks. With the application, the participants were able to monitor their stress level and life style patterns. The participants were also provided personalized stress management techniques including psychoeducation and cognitive behavioral technique. In 2014, additional relaxation techniques-abdominal breathing, progressive muscular relaxation, and meditation-were incorporated. Participants' mental health status and life style patterns were evaluated at baseline and at 4 weeks. Pre- and post-intervention statuses were compared after adjusting for degrees of life stress factors. Brief encounter psychosocial instrument (BEPSI-K) score and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) score were used as primary outcome measures.

Enrollment: 68 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Any employee from three corporations (the Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS), the Korea District Heating Corporation (KDHC), and the Korea Expressway Corporation (KEC)); any individual who visited the health promotion center for a health checkup at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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68 participants in 1 patient group

treatment arm

Experimental group

Description:

All individual is instructed to use the application we developed for 4 weeks

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stress guide