Digital Therapeutic Workplace Technology as a Employee Management Tool and Employee's Mental Health Care

NCT06295185 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: AJOUIRB-IV-2024-097
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 165
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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'.

Conditions

Depression; Mental Health Issue

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• 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

  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

  4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment

Secondary Outcomes (15)

• Change in social capital on the Social Capital Scale

  4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment

• Change in perceived workload on the Perceived Workload Scale

  4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment

• Change in job self-efficacy on the Job Self-Efficacy Scale

  4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment

• Change in sense of meaningfulness for job on the Sense of Meaningfulness for Job Scale

  4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment

• Change in work orientation toward his or her job on the Work Orientation Scale

  4weeks, 8weeks after starting treatment

Study Arms (2)

mental health treated with digital intervention app 'Maro'

EXPERIMENTAL

Intervention group will use 'Maro app' which was developed to improve mental health for 8weeks. Through 8weeks intervention group will record their status more than once a day and utilize specific functions in the app. They will also have meetings once a week in the online chat in order to share their own experience about Maro application use with other employees in the same branch.

Other: application MARO

Digital Sham App

SHAM COMPARATOR

Control group will use Sham app for 8weeks.

Other: Sham application

Interventions

application MARO OTHER

It is a mental healthcare application aim to improve mental health.

mental health treated with digital intervention app 'Maro'

Sham application OTHER

It is a sham application in order to control spill over bias.

Digital Sham App

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• HISBEANS store employees
• Age: 18 years old or older
• possessing a smartphone with internet connection
• subjects agree to participate in the study

You may not qualify if:

• Those who have symptoms of psychotic disorder are acutely active or advanced, making clinical intervention difficult
• Those who has been started or changed their antidepressant medication within the last 1 month or cannot be maintained stably during the intervention period
• Those who are non-literate
• Those who have used the Maro app previously
• Those who couldn't use Maro app in their own smartphone
• Those who participate in another intervention study
• Those who have a serious medical condition that prevents them from participating in the intervention and efficacy evaluation
• Those who is unable to participate fully and cooperatively by the judgment of the researcher

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ajou University School of Medicine: lead

Study Sites (1)

Ajou Medical University

Suwon, 16499, South Korea

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Depression

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior

Study Officials

• Chang Hyung Hong, Ph.D

  Ajou Medical Center

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 16, 2024
• First Posted: March 6, 2024
• Study Start: May 20, 2024
• Primary Completion: July 31, 2024
• Study Completion: July 31, 2024
• Last Updated: September 19, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

KR (1)