Towards an assessment of psychosocial work factors in a multi-level mental health intervention in the workplace: results from the MENTUPP pilot-study.

Autor: Tsantila F; LUCAS, Centre for Care Research and Consultancy, KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgium. fotini.tsantila@kuleuven.be., Rugulies R; National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark.; Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark., Coppens E; LUCAS, Centre for Care Research and Consultancy, KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgium., De Witte H; Research Group Work, Organisational and Personnel Psychology (WOPP-O2L), KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgium.; Optentia Research Unit, North-West University, Vaal Campus, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa., Arensman E; School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.; National Suicide Research Foundation, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.; Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia., Kahar A; European Alliance Against Depression, Leipzig, Germany., Cerga-Pashoja A; Department of Population Health, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK., Corcoran P; School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.; National Suicide Research Foundation, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland., De Winter L; Phrenos Center of Expertise, Utrecht, The Netherlands.; Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC Location AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Greiner B; School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland., Griffin E; School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.; National Suicide Research Foundation, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland., Hogg B; Centre Fòrum Research Unit, Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain.; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto Carlos III, Madrid, Spain., Leduc C; School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.; National Suicide Research Foundation, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland., Leduc M; National Suicide Research Foundation, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland., Maxwell M; Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit (NMAHP‑RU), Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK., Reich H; German Depression Foundation, Leipzig, Germany.; Depression Research Centre of the German Depression Foundation, Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany., Ross V; Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia., Van Audenhove C; LUCAS, Centre for Care Research and Consultancy, KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgium.; Academic Center for General Practice, KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgium., Aust B; National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International archives of occupational and environmental health [Int Arch Occup Environ Health] 2024 Oct; Vol. 97 (8), pp. 915-929. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 20.
DOI: 10.1007/s00420-024-02096-6
Abstrakt: Background: Mental health in the workplace is a growing concern for enterprises and policy makers. MENTUPP is a multi-level mental health intervention implemented in small and medium size enterprises from three work sectors in nine countries. This pilot study aimed to evaluate the feasibility, delivery, and instruments for the MENTUPP intervention to inform the planning of a clustered randomized controlled trial.
Methods: We administered items from the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire and the Danish Work Environment Cohort Study measuring psychosocial workplace factors. The questionnaire was answered by 382 participants at baseline, of which 98 participants also answered after six months at follow-up. We calculated mean scores of 19 psychosocial factors at baseline and conducted repeated measures ANOVAs to assess differences in eight psychosocial factors at follow-up. We also examined whether outcomes differed between work sectors and job positions at follow-up.
Results: The construction sector and workers with no or a lower leadership role reported more negative working environment factors at baseline. We observed a statistically significant decline in social support from colleagues and social community at work, and a marginally significant decline in justice at work. For the rest of the constructs, we did not observe statistically significant changes.
Conclusions: We found significant differences in psychosocial work environment factors among work sectors and job positions at baseline. Contrary to our hypotheses, three psychosocial work environment factors decreased at follow-up. Possible explanations are the utilization of specific psychosocial factors as resources to cope with psychosocial stressors, high participant expectations that were not met by the intervention, insufficient time for structural changes, or the intervention prompting critical evaluations of the work environment. These findings will inform the design and implementation of the forthcoming clustered randomized controlled trial, where they will also be further investigated to validate their significance.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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