Digital Engagement Strategy and Health Care Worker Mental Health: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The health care workforce continues to experience high rates of depression and anxiety. Finding ways to effectively support the mental health and well-being of health care workers is challenging.

Objective

To test the effectiveness of remote, pushed digital assessments and engagement to improve depression and anxiety among health care workers compared with usual care.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a 9-month randomized clinical trial with a 6-month intervention period. Participants were health care workers with self-reported daily access to a smartphone and at least 4 clinical hours per week. Participants were randomized to usual care or the intervention between January 2022 and March 2023. Data analyses were conducted between May and July 2023.

SUBMITTER: Agarwal AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11127125 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature