A risk communication intervention aimed at enhancing help-seeking behavior and reducing stress symptoms in healthcare workers: a pilot study with a process evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at risk for work-related stress, but interventions to support early help-seeking are often limited. This study aims to evaluate a risk communication intervention designed to promote help-seeking behavior and reduce stress symptoms. The risk communication intervention provides personal feedback on stress symptoms, risk factors and focuses on creating awareness of the potential disconnect between values assigned to healthy working and the effort devoted to it, based on the Disconnected Values Model.

Methods

The study employed a pre-post, single-arm design. Recruitment, reach, dose delivered and received were assessed with data of the digital intervention, and participant satisfaction with questionnaires. Help-seeking behavior was measur

SUBMITTER: Emal LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12752217 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature