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Title: | Study protocol of brief daily body-mind-spirit practice for sustainable emotional capacity and work engagement for community mental health workers : a multi-site randomized controlled trial | Authors: | Ng, SM Lo, HHM Yeung, A Young, D Fung, MHY Wang, AM |
Issue Date: | Jun-2020 | Source: | Frontiers in psychology, June 2020, v. 11, 1482, p. 1-10 | Abstract: | Background: Given the emotional demanding nature of social services, we developed a brief daily body-mind-spirit (BMS) program and successfully piloted it with workers at elderly services. The proposed study focuses on community mental health workers who are often under chronic stress and vulnerable to burnout. Methods: The study aims to evaluate the program for fostering sustainable emotional capacity and work engagement for community mental health workers. A multi-site randomized controlled trial design is adopted. All the 24 the Integrated Community Centre for Mental Wellness (ICCMW of Hong Kong will be approached to join this program. Assuming conservatively, 60% ICCWM (14 centers) will respond and participate. At each site, a pair of intervention and control groups will be run. The targeted total sample size is 224. To investigate the course of changes in burnout and engagement, each group will last 6 months, including 3-month intervention and 3-month follow-up. Measures will be taken at monthly intervals. Discussion: In light of literature and the pilot trial's findings, participants in the Brief Daily BMS intervention group are expected to have a reduced burnout level and a narrowing of range in work engagement during the 3 months intervention. And within the 3 months post-intervention period, a rebound of burnout level and a widening of range in work engagement are expected to be observed in the same group of participants. Hopefully, this study will contribute to the deeper understanding of burnout and work engagement, and shed light on sustainable intervention for emotionally demanding workplaces. |
Keywords: | Work engagement Burnout Body-mind-spirit (BMS) practice Community mental health workers Randomized controlled trial (RCT) |
Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation | Journal: | Frontiers in psychology | EISSN: | 1664-1078 | DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01482 | Rights: | © 2020 Ng, Lo, Yeung, Young, Fung and Wang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. The following publication Ng, S. M., Lo, H. H. M., Yeung, A., Young, D., Fung, M. H. Y., & Wang, A. M. (2020). Study protocol of brief daily body-mind-spirit practice for sustainable emotional capacity and work engagement for community mental health workers: A multi-site randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1-10 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01482 |
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