With-Me - Technology-Aided Phone Coaching for Occupational Health Study

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychological Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Technology-aided phone wellness counselling; Behavioral: Phone wellness counselling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT02445950

332885 With-Me-Occ

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine whether the technology (web-based coaching, profiling and suggestion tool) brings added value to the traditional phone coaching in occupational health context. The interventions are phone counseling interventions. The other intervention exploits additionally a specific web-based coaching, profiling and suggestion tool.

Full description

The study focuses on mental well-being. The both interventions include intensive and independent phase.

The intensive phase lasts 13 weeks. In the intensive phase, goals for the coaching are defined. Coach calls the customer every two weeks and they discuss about the actions that took place in the previous two weeks and what they need to do in the next two weeks. In the technology-aided arm, customers get and analysis of their change needs via digital tool. Based on the change needs they receive task/goal suggestions from which they need to choose 3. Coach is able to see these choices and exploits it in the coaching. The selected behavioral activation interventions are delivered to customer utilizing a web-based coaching tool.

The independent phase lasts 13 weeks. In the independent phase, technology-aided group is coached via the digital tool. The phone counseling group gets 3 phone calls.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• At least a bachelor level degree
• Age over 18 years
• Decreased psycho-physic state (own assessment)
• Is in a relationship
• Motivated to enhance own well-being and willing to change lifestyle, to do exercises related on mental well-being and relationship
• Willing to use technological wellness coaching tools, familiarity with technology

Exclusion criteria

• Work includes night shifts
• Acute health conditions or serious diseases
• Chronical pain affecting functionality
• Long period(s) of absence from work during the coaching period (e.g. long vacation, alternation leave, parental leave, pension)
• Participation in some other study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Technology-aided counseling

Experimental group

Description:

Customers receive intervention via technology-aided phone wellness counseling. The intensive phase lasts 13 weeks and includes 5 phone calls. The customers are able to view their change change needs and choose tasks/goals for the coaching. The independent phase lasts 13 weeks and coaching is done via a digital tool.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Technology-aided phone wellness counselling

Traditional counseling

Active Comparator group

Description:

Customers receive intervention via traditional phone wellness counseling. The intensive phase lasts 13 weeks and includes 5 phone calls. Change needs and goals are set during the phone calls. The independent phase lasts 13 weeks and includes 3 phone calls.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Phone wellness counselling