Engaged and Resilient - a Preventive Intervention to Promote Psychological Well-being and Mental Health for Leaders

NCT04727255 | Unknown DMC

• 1 other identifier: AU_IM
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Leaders in organizations must handle organizational complexity and adversity as part of their position and profession. Work-related risk exposure is associated with perceived stress, low engagement, and mental health issues. However, not all leaders exposed to risk experience adverse outcomes, and one possible explanation might be their psychological ability to adapt to the organizational turbulence. Engaged and Resilient is a research project for leaders in private and public organizations. The overall objective is to improve human health and performance, more specifically, to promote psychological and mental health by enhancing the resilience capacities to face adversity and adapt to the organizational environment. The Engaged and Resilient intervention is a flexible training program for leaders implemented as a 20-week program on-site (adjusted due to Covid-19).

Conditions

Stress, Psychological; Mental Health Issue

Keywords

Resilience; Positive mental health; Well-being

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Change in mental well-being

  The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS-14) is a 14-item scale with 5 response categories.

  -1 month intervention (baseline), week 10, +1 month post intervention

• Change in well-being (flourishing)

  The Flourishing Scale is a 10-item scale with different (5,4 and 10) response categories.

  -1 month intervention (baseline), week 10, +1 month post intervention

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Change in perceived stress

  -1 month intervention (baseline), week 10, +1 month post intervention

• Change in work-related resilience

  -1 month intervention (baseline), week 10, +1 month post intervention

• Change in resilience

  -1 month intervention (baseline), week 10, +1 month post intervention

• Job performance

  -1 month intervention (baseline), week 10, +1 month post intervention

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

The intervention will be implemented through a group-based delivery format involving internal educated resilience trainers. The Engaged and Resilient training program consists of twenty weekly, short-term sessions to build resilience skills in leaders.

Behavioral: Engaged and Resilient intervention

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Participants in the (waitlist) control group will be exposed to their usual activities in the organization and will not perceive any interventions from the resilience curriculum. After the final data is collected, the control participant will be offered the opportunity to be trained by the internal trainers, educated in the research study.

Interventions

Engaged and Resilient intervention BEHAVIORAL

Engaged and Resilient is a 3-phase program addressing the promotion of psychological resilience strategies for leaders. To implement resilience training as a strategic and ethical intervention in the organization, stakeholders from Management/HR will be involved in the final design of the training program based on local institutional data, and the baseline measure result. Local training sessions will be selected from a bag-log of resilience skills structured by three general resilience factors. To support ownership and internal sustainability, internal trainers will be educated on how to train the resilience skills in the program. The Engaged and Resilient program consists of 20 short-term sessions for leaders based on cognitive and positive psychology.

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Age 18+ years
• Being a formal leader or having a specific leading role in a professional or functional area in the organization
• Accept the commitment to attendance in interventions groups and all sessions

You may not qualify if:

• Not willing and able to give informed consent
• Not willing to complete surveys at all time points

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Aarhus: lead
• University of Southern Denmark: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Aahus University

Aarhus, Aarhus C, 8000, Denmark

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Stress, Psychological

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior

Study Officials

• Hans Henrik Knoop

  University of Aarhus

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Randomized, controlled (two parallel groups)

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 22, 2021
• First Posted: January 27, 2021
• Study Start: October 19, 2020
• Primary Completion: February 2, 2022
• Study Completion: February 2, 2023
• Last Updated: November 29, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-06

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

DK (1)