The Efficacy of Mobile Video Counseling for Employees With Emotional Labor

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stress, Psychological

Treatments: Behavioral: Stress management counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03256682

B-1707-408-305

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to verify the effectiveness of mobile video counseling for workers. Subjects who can participate in the screening evaluation are assigned to one of face-to-face counseling group, mobile counseling group, and self-treatment group. The mobile counseling group and the face-to-face counseling group counseld with a total of 4 times, 50 minutes at a time, once a week, and the self-treatment group provides self-education by providing the stress education kit.

Full description

After screening, Pre-evaluation is conducted on the subjects who agreed to participate in the study. Pre-assessment includes questionnaires related to stress, emotional labor, resilience, sleep, etc., and includes stress-related physiological measures using HRV, 2 lead EEG. After the pre-evaluation, the test group will conduct a counseling program with a psychologist for 50 minutes at a time, once a week, for a total of 4 sessions (one month for a period). The place should be placed in a quiet place where the subject thinks comfortably and is designated as the same place to exclude the influence by the place, but the subject does not have to visit the hospital. In the offline counseling group, four counseling sessions are held with the psychologist off-line for a total of 4 counseling sessions, 50 minutes at a time, once a week after the same pre-evaluation. As a self-care control, counseling is not provided and self-learning materials are provided once a week.

Mobile counseling group and offline counseling group visit the hospital within one week after termination and within 4 to 5 weeks after pre-evaluation in self-care control group. Also, to see if the effect of mobile counseling is continued even after counseling is completed, visit the counseling clinic one month after counseling is over and conduct the same test. The data obtained from this study showed that the mobile counseling program measured the change in the clinical scale and heart rate variability and EEG such as the stress and resilience of the subjects, and the self-care group using the offline counseling group and stress data and stress related psychological and physiological And compare the effects on the improvement of the indicator.

Enrollment: 53 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Workers over the age of 19 and under 65
• In the Perceived Stress Scale 14 points or more
• If you are currently taking medication due to psychiatric illnesses such as depression, anxiety disorder, insomnia, etc., if the stabilizer is expected to have no change in drug dose during the clinical trial
• If you understand the protocol and voluntarily agree to participate
• If you have an Android phone

Exclusion criteria

• Age under 19, adult over 65
• If you have dementia, intellectual disability, or other cognitive impairment
• If you have convulsive disorder, stroke, or other neurological disorder
• If you have psychosis such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder or you have a history
• If you have a disease that can affect the reliability of HRV test, such as heart disease or lung disease.
• Has received non-pharmacological psychiatric or counseling treatment within the current or last 6 months.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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53 participants in 3 patient groups

Mobile Video Counseling

Experimental group

Description:

Utilize mobile imaging equipment, receive a total of 4 stress management consultations every 50 minutes at a time, once a week.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stress management counseling

Offline Counseling

Active Comparator group

Description:

Receive a total of 4 stress management counseling, once a week for 50 minutes each session.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stress management counseling

Selfcare

No Intervention group

Description:

Use stress management materials to manage yourself.