UMIN-CTR Clinical Trial

Unique ID issued by UMIN UMIN000031398
Receipt number R000035847
Scientific Title Effects of a new developed gratitude intervention program on work engagement among Japanese workers: A pretest-posttest study
Date of disclosure of the study information 2018/02/23
Last modified on 2019/08/23 09:28:12

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Basic information

Public title

Effects of a new developed gratitude intervention program on work engagement among Japanese workers: A pretest-posttest study

Acronym

Effects of a new developed gratitude intervention program on work engagement among Japanese workers: A pretest-posttest study

Scientific Title

Effects of a new developed gratitude intervention program on work engagement among Japanese workers: A pretest-posttest study

Scientific Title:Acronym

Effects of a new developed gratitude intervention program on work engagement among Japanese workers: A pretest-posttest study

Region

Japan


Condition

Condition

None

Classification by specialty

Not applicable

Classification by malignancy

Others

Genomic information

NO


Objectives

Narrative objectives1

The purpose of the study is to examine the effectiveness of a new developed gratitude intervention program on work engagement, as primary outcome, among workers, with a pretest-posttest study design. The study also aims to examine the effectiveness of this program on improving gratitude feeling, work related happiness, self-efficacy, job and life satisfaction, social capital, supervisor / coworker support, job performance, and non-specific psychological distress as secondary outcomes.

Basic objectives2

Efficacy

Basic objectives -Others


Trial characteristics_1

Confirmatory

Trial characteristics_2

Pragmatic

Developmental phase

Not applicable


Assessment

Primary outcomes

Work Engagement measured by Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9) at pre-intervention, post-intervention (3-week after), and 9-week follow-up.

Key secondary outcomes

Gratitude feeling measured by gratitude questionnaire.
Work related happiness measured by Workplace PERMA-Profiler. Self-efficacy measured by generalized efficacy scale. Job and life satisfaction, social capital, supervisor / coworkers support measured by the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire
Work performance measured by WHO Health and Performance Questionnaire (HPQ)
Non-specific psychological distress measured by K6.


Base

Study type

Interventional


Study design

Basic design

Single arm

Randomization

Non-randomized

Randomization unit


Blinding

Open -no one is blinded

Control

Uncontrolled

Stratification


Dynamic allocation


Institution consideration


Blocking


Concealment



Intervention

No. of arms

1

Purpose of intervention

Prevention

Type of intervention

Behavior,custom

Interventions/Control_1

A program composed of workshop and sending work related gratitude e-mails three days a week (on Monday, Wednesday and Friday) for three weeks. Participants will be given a gratitude dairy which shows the accumulated gratitude after gratitude e-mails everytime.
There are four aims of workshop. First, to tell the merit of feeling gratitude. Second, to be easy to feel gratitude. Third, to promote the expression of gratitude to others. Fourth, to increase autonomy toward the program.
The aim of sending gratitude e-mails and giving accumulated gratitude dairy are to increase gratitude feeling.

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Eligibility

Age-lower limit

20 years-old <=

Age-upper limit


Not applicable

Gender

Male and Female

Key inclusion criteria

employees

Key exclusion criteria

None

Target sample size

90


Research contact person

Name of lead principal investigator

1st name
Middle name
Last name Norito Kawakami

Organization

Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo

Division name

Mental health

Zip code


Address

7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

TEL

03-5841-3522

Email

norito@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp


Public contact

Name of contact person

1st name
Middle name
Last name Yu Komase

Organization

Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo

Division name

Psychiatric Nursing

Zip code


Address

7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

TEL

03-5841-3522

Homepage URL


Email

kmsy-tky@umin.ac.jp


Sponsor or person

Institute

Department of Mental Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo

Institute

Department

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Funding Source

Organization

None

Organization

Division

Category of Funding Organization

Self funding

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IRB Contact (For public release)

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Secondary IDs

Secondary IDs

NO

Study ID_1


Org. issuing International ID_1


Study ID_2


Org. issuing International ID_2


IND to MHLW



Institutions

Institutions



Other administrative information

Date of disclosure of the study information

2018 Year 02 Month 23 Day


Related information

URL releasing protocol


Publication of results

Unpublished


Result

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Results


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Progress

Recruitment status

Main results already published

Date of protocol fixation

2018 Year 02 Month 23 Day

Date of IRB

2017 Year 11 Month 29 Day

Anticipated trial start date

2018 Year 02 Month 27 Day

Last follow-up date

2018 Year 10 Month 18 Day

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Date analysis concluded



Other

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Management information

Registered date

2018 Year 02 Month 20 Day

Last modified on

2019 Year 08 Month 23 Day



Link to view the page

Value
https://center6.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr_e/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000035847


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