The purpose of the study is to determine whether a digital healthcare app for employee's mental health can effectively improve the mental health of Hisbeans's employees and the managerial performance of Hisbeans, which is represented as a 'social enterprise'.
Hisbeans is a social enterprise where employees are consist of individual with mental disabilities. 'Hisbeans' employees(N = 150 subjects) will be randomly assigned to Group 1 (maro intervention), or Group 2 (control app intervention) by cluster randomization depending on the branch of the company. * MARO intervention group: MARO (mental health digital application) use * Control group: sham app use The intervention period will be 8weeks.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
165
It is a mental healthcare application aim to improve mental health.
It is a sham application in order to control spill over bias.
Ajou Medical University
Suwon, South Korea
Change in network on the Standard Name Generator Approach scale
* Description: A validated self-reported list of names assessing the subject's network scores * minimum and maximum values: from no name to the maximum available subject employees in the focal company that subject employees work for * score meaning: an individual subject generating more names means he or she has more connected people in the company
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in depression symptoms severity on the Patient Health Questionnaire-9
* Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing the severity of depression symptom * minimum and maximum values: 9-item scale with total scores between 0 and 27 * score meaning: higher scores indicate greater symptoms severity
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in social capital on the Social Capital Scale
* Description: Based on the validated self-reported name assessing the person's network scores, researchers calculate the inverse degree to which individuals hold less constraints in the network landscape * minimum and maximum values: a scale between 0 and 1 multiplied by the number of subjects individuals * score meaning: higher scores indicate greater social capital
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in perceived workload on the Perceived Workload Scale
* Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing the complexity of jobs and the work-related stress * minimum and maximum values: a 4-item scale with total scores between 0 and 28 * score meaning: higher scores indicate greater perceived workload
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in job self-efficacy on the Job Self-Efficacy Scale
* Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing the efficacy of one's job and tasks * minimum and maximum values: a 11-item scale with total scores between 0 and 77 * score meaning: higher scores indicate greater job self-efficacy
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Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in sense of meaningfulness for job on the Sense of Meaningfulness for Job Scale
* Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing the sense of meaningfulness toward one's job * minimum and maximum values: a 6-item scale with total scores between 0 and 42 * score meaning: higher scores indicate greater sense of meaningfulness for job
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in work orientation toward his or her job on the Work Orientation Scale
* Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing one's work orientation toward his or her job * minimum and maximum values: categorical values among 'economic-value group', 'achievement group', and 'calling group' * score meaning: one sorting into a certain categorical value means one such
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in sense of psychological safety on the Perception of Psychological Safety Scale of Company Employees
* Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing one's perception of psychological safety within the company * minimum and maximum values: a 7-item scale with average scores between 0 and 7 * score meaning: higher scores indicate greater sense of psychological safety
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in firm performance on the Company weekly sales records
* Description: Validated objective measure of firm's performance assessing the department's weekly revenue * minimum and maximum values: a monetary scale between 0 and possibly generatable revenue during firm's operation time * score meaning: higher sales indicate greater firm performance
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in amsenteeism/leaves on the absenteeism/leave scales for employees with severe mental disabilities
* Description: Validated numeric, objective measure assessing the individual employees' absenteeism or turnover cases, among which we also measure the employees with severe mental disabilities. * minimum and maximum values: the number of individuals scale between 0 and the maximum possible employees working for the firm. * score meaning: higher number indicates greater amsenteeism/leaves
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in stress regulation skill on the Emotional/Cognitive/Behavioral State Questionnaire
* Description: self-reported questionnaire assessing stress regulation skill * minimum and maximum values: 3-item scale with total scores between 3 and 30 * score meaning: higher scores indicate greater stress regulation skill
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in anxiety symptoms severity on the General Anxiety Disorder-7items scale
* Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing the severity of anxiety symptom * minimum and maximum values: 7-item scale with total scores between 0 and 21 * score meaning: higher scores indicate greater symptoms severity
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in perceived stress level on the Perceived Stress Scale
* Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing perceived stress * minimum and maximum values: 10 scale with total scores between 0 and 40 * score meaning: higher scores indicate greater perceived stress
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in social functioning on Social Adaptation Self Rating Scale
* Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing social motivation and behavior * minimum and maximum values: 21-item scale with total scores between 21 and 84 * score meaning: higher scores indicate greater social functioning
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in positive psychological capital on Korean version of Positive Psychological Capital Scale
* Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing positive psychological capital, which consist of self-efficacy, hope, optimism, and resilience * minimum and maximum values: 18-item scale with total scores between 18 and 90 * score meaning: higher scores indicate greater Positive Psychological Capital
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in Organizational Companionship on Organizational Culture Inventory
* Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing Organizational Companionship * minimum and maximum values: 28-item scale with total scores between 28 and 196 * score meaning: higher scores indicate a higher degress of organizational companionship
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment
Change in individual's social network on Lubben Social Network Scale-18
* Description: Validated self-reported questionnaire assessing an individual's social network of relatives, friends, and neighbors. * minimum and maximum values: 18-item scale with total scores between 0 and 90 * score meaning: higher scores indicate a larger social network
Time frame: 4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment