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

NCT ID: NCT02241070

Last Updated: 2014-09-16

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 144 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2011-06-30
• Study Completion Date: 2011-12-31

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.

Detailed Description

This study was one component of the Taiwan Workplace Mental Health Promotion Scheme. The study adopted a study design of a randomized controlled trial. Two large-scale manufacturing factories were chosen for this study. All of the factories' 3270 full-time employees were requested to fill in a questionnaire comprising questions regarding mental health and job strain. Of these employees, 2849 individuals were willing to complete the questionnaire. A total of 431 employees (15.13%) were found to be in psychological distress with job strain. The screening procedure was carried out between June and July in 2011. A letter of invitation with an introduction to MBI was sent to these employees. Of these 431 employees, only 144 responded that they would be willing to take part voluntarily in the study. These 144 workers were allocated randomly into the intervention group (Group I, n=72) or the waiting-list control group (Group C, n=72).

All the participants were measured five times with an interval of four weeks between measurements. These measurements were taken at pre-intervention (T1), at mid-intervention (T2), at the completion of intervention (T3), four weeks after intervention (T4), and eight weeks after intervention (T5). The data related with the effectiveness of the intervention were obtained between August and December in 2011.

Conditions

Mental Health Wellness 1

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

mindulness-based intervention

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.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

mindulness-based intervention

Intervention Type: 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.

waiting-list control

passive control group

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

mindulness-based intervention

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.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

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

Exclusion Criteria

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Changhua Christian Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Chung Shan Medical University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

GCRC

Chung Shan Medical University

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Feng-Cheng Tang, MD; PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Changhua Christian Hospital

Locations

Chung Shan Medical University

Taichung, , Taiwan

Countries

Taiwan

References

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.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 26367270 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

CCH 110606

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id