A New Online Mental Health Training Program for Workplace Managers: Pre-Post Pilot Study Assessing Feasibility, Usability, and Possible Effectiveness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health has become the leading cause of sickness absence in high-income countries. Managers can play an important role in establishing mentally healthy workplaces and coordinating their organization's response to a mentally ill worker.

Objective

This pilot study aims to evaluate the feasibility, usability, and likely effectiveness of a newly developed online training program for managers called HeadCoach. HeadCoach aims to build managers' confidence in supporting the mental health needs of staff and promote managerial behavior most likely to result in a more mentally healthy workplace.

Methods

In total, 66 managers from two organizations were invited to participate in this pre-post pilot study of HeadCoach, which was made available to managers to comp

SUBMITTER: Gayed A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6053610 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature