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Evaluation of a Brief Intervention for Promoting Mental Health among Employees in Social Enterprises: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Evidence on the effectiveness of workplace mental health promotion for people with disabilities is limited. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief mental health promotion intervention in social enterprises. It had a non-blinded cluster randomized controlled trial design with follo...

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Autores principales: Deforche, Benedicte, Mommen, Jasmine, Hublet, Anne, De Roover, Winnie, Huys, Nele, Clays, Els, Maes, Lea, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse, Van Cauwenberg, Jelle
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Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6210353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30257476
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102107
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author Deforche, Benedicte
Mommen, Jasmine
Hublet, Anne
De Roover, Winnie
Huys, Nele
Clays, Els
Maes, Lea
De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
Van Cauwenberg, Jelle
author_facet Deforche, Benedicte
Mommen, Jasmine
Hublet, Anne
De Roover, Winnie
Huys, Nele
Clays, Els
Maes, Lea
De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
Van Cauwenberg, Jelle
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description Evidence on the effectiveness of workplace mental health promotion for people with disabilities is limited. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief mental health promotion intervention in social enterprises. It had a non-blinded cluster randomized controlled trial design with follow-up one and four months after the intervention. In total 196 employees agreed to participate (86 intervention and 110 control). Empowerment was the main outcome; secondary outcomes were resilience, palliative behavior, determinants of four coping strategies of mental health, quality of life, and life satisfaction. A brief participant satisfaction survey was conducted after the intervention. No significant intervention effect on empowerment was found. However, at one month follow-up, significant favorable effects were found on perceived social support for coping strategies for mental health and on palliative behavior. At four months follow-up, favorable intervention effects were found on quality of life, but unfavorable effects were found on unjustified worrying. In addition, the intervention was well received by the employees. This brief intervention might be a promising first step to improve mental health in people with disabilities working in social enterprises. Nevertheless, additional monitoring by professionals and managers working in the organizations might be needed to maintain these effects.
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spelling pubmed-62103532018-11-02 Evaluation of a Brief Intervention for Promoting Mental Health among Employees in Social Enterprises: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Deforche, Benedicte Mommen, Jasmine Hublet, Anne De Roover, Winnie Huys, Nele Clays, Els Maes, Lea De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse Van Cauwenberg, Jelle Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Evidence on the effectiveness of workplace mental health promotion for people with disabilities is limited. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief mental health promotion intervention in social enterprises. It had a non-blinded cluster randomized controlled trial design with follow-up one and four months after the intervention. In total 196 employees agreed to participate (86 intervention and 110 control). Empowerment was the main outcome; secondary outcomes were resilience, palliative behavior, determinants of four coping strategies of mental health, quality of life, and life satisfaction. A brief participant satisfaction survey was conducted after the intervention. No significant intervention effect on empowerment was found. However, at one month follow-up, significant favorable effects were found on perceived social support for coping strategies for mental health and on palliative behavior. At four months follow-up, favorable intervention effects were found on quality of life, but unfavorable effects were found on unjustified worrying. In addition, the intervention was well received by the employees. This brief intervention might be a promising first step to improve mental health in people with disabilities working in social enterprises. Nevertheless, additional monitoring by professionals and managers working in the organizations might be needed to maintain these effects. MDPI 2018-09-25 2018-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6210353/ /pubmed/30257476 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102107 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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De Roover, Winnie
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Clays, Els
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De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
Van Cauwenberg, Jelle
Evaluation of a Brief Intervention for Promoting Mental Health among Employees in Social Enterprises: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6210353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30257476
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102107
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