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

NCT02241070 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: CCH 110606
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 144
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Mental Health Wellness 1

Keywords

mindfulness meditation; mental health promotion; worker

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• psychological distress

  Psychological distress was measured by the Chinese Health Questionnaire (CHQ-12), a well-validated instrument

  four months

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• prolonged fatigue

  Four months

• job strain

  four months

• perceived stress

  four months

Study Arms (2)

mindulness-based intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

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.

Behavioral: mindulness-based intervention

waiting-list control

NO INTERVENTION

passive control group

Interventions

mindulness-based intervention BEHAVIORAL

A number of mindfulness techniques, including both "formal" and "informal" practices with integration in the context of Mind/Body meditation, were explored in order to cultivate moment-by-moment present awareness with non-judgmental acceptance.

mindulness-based intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

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

You may not qualify if:

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Chung Shan Medical University: lead
• Changhua Christian Hospital: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Chung Shan Medical University

Taichung, 402, Taiwan

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Huang SL, Li RH, Huang FY, Tang FC. The Potential for Mindfulness-Based Intervention in Workplace Mental Health Promotion: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial. PLoS One. 2015 Sep 14;10(9):e0138089. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138089. eCollection 2015.

  PMID: 26367270 DERIVED

Study Officials

• Feng-Cheng Tang, MD; PhD

  Changhua Christian Hospital

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Chung Shan Medical University

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 7, 2014
• First Posted: September 16, 2014
• Study Start: June 1, 2011
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2011
• Study Completion: December 1, 2011
• Last Updated: September 16, 2014

Record last verified: 2014-09

Locations

TW (1)