The Potential for Mindfulness-Based Intervention in Workplace Mental Health Promotion

Chung Shan Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Health Wellness 1

Treatments: Behavioral: mindulness-based intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02241070

CCH 110606

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aims of the study are to determine the effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Interventionas a workplace health promotion program on psychological distress, prolonged fatigue, job strain (job control and job demand), and perceived stress and to explore the influences of personal characteristics (including gender, age, education, and occupation) on the outcomes of the intervention with time.

Full description

This study was one component of the Taiwan Workplace Mental Health Promotion Scheme. The study adopted a study design of a randomized controlled trial. Two large-scale manufacturing factories were chosen for this study. All of the factories' 3270 full-time employees were requested to fill in a questionnaire comprising questions regarding mental health and job strain. Of these employees, 2849 individuals were willing to complete the questionnaire. A total of 431 employees (15.13%) were found to be in psychological distress with job strain. The screening procedure was carried out between June and July in 2011. A letter of invitation with an introduction to MBI was sent to these employees. Of these 431 employees, only 144 responded that they would be willing to take part voluntarily in the study. These 144 workers were allocated randomly into the intervention group (Group I, n=72) or the waiting-list control group (Group C, n=72).

All the participants were measured five times with an interval of four weeks between measurements. These measurements were taken at pre-intervention (T1), at mid-intervention (T2), at the completion of intervention (T3), four weeks after intervention (T4), and eight weeks after intervention (T5). The data related with the effectiveness of the intervention were obtained between August and December in 2011.

Enrollment: 144 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy employees with psychological distress and job strain
• Full-time paid workers

Exclusion criteria

• Age < 18y or > 65y
• Part-time workers
• The workers are not willing to take part in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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144 participants in 2 patient groups

mindulness-based intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Mindulness-based intervention was eight weeks of mindfulness training with forty-five minutes of homework practice every day during the training course. A leader and a professional facilitator led the group. The leader was a long-term mindfulness and vipassana meditation trainer who had practiced both types of meditation for more than two decades and had completed mindfulness trainer education; the professional facilitator was a mindfulness practitioner and a psychiatrist. The group met weekly for two hours in-session at the workplace.

Treatment:

Behavioral: mindulness-based intervention

waiting-list control

No Intervention group

Description:

passive control group