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Character-Strengths Based Coaching For Work-Stress Reduction For Health Workers

NCT06013488 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 330

Last updated 2024-11-20

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Summary

The purpose of this two-arm, parallel group individual randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of a character-strengths based coaching intervention consisting of a five-day residential workshop focusing on the use of character-strengths to address work-stress in routine situations supplemented by 8- to 10-week remote telephonic weekly coaching sessions to support rural health workers, as they face stressful situations and apply the strategies learnt in the workshop. The arms are: the character-strengths based intervention added to routine health worker supervision (weekly, by the supervisor) and routine supervision alone (control arm). The target sample comprises 330 government contracted 'ASHAs' (rural resident women, lay health workers) in the Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh, one of the most populous and poorest of the states in India. Scores on the 'Authentic Happiness Inventory (AHI)' will serve as the primary outcome for self-reported wellbeing and will be compared between arms at 3-month follow-up. Secondary ASHA-level outcomes will include assessment of self-reported affect, self-efficacy, flourishing, burnout, and motivation. We will also collect exploratory outcomes, including routine service delivery indicators to assess any effect of changes in well-being on ASHA's regular work performance, and resulting patient-level outcomes like satisfaction with services, and depression severity levels after receiving community-based depression care delivered by the ASHAs. We will also evaluate the costs of delivering the intervention and those incurred by ASHAs due to their participation in the intervention. Assessors blind to participant allocation will collect outcomes at baseline, 1-month and 3-month follow-up, as well as at 6-month follow-up, to ascertain differences in outcomes between arms. In addition, scores of ASHAs' self-perceived character strengths will be collected at baseline and 3-month follow-up as exploratory variables.

Conditions

  • Work Related Stress
  • Burnout, Psychological
  • Mental Health Issue

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Character Strengths Based Coaching Support

Residential (five day) workshop and remote (weekly) telephonic support for 8 to 10 weeks

BEHAVIORAL

Routine Supervision

Weekly face-to-face supervision by supervisor in groups of \~20 (1 supervisor for \~20 health workers)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Templeton World Charity Foundation

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Anant Bhan · Site Head, Sangath Bhopal Hub

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-08-21
Primary Completion
2025-07-30
Completion
2025-09-30

Countries

  • India

Study Locations

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