StayOK - an Innovative Measuring Instrument for the Early Identification and Treatment of Psychosocial Risks (StayOK)

The validity and the sensitivity of different measures implemented in the web application StayOk are investigated. The measures are used primarily for the assessment and the early identification of psychosocial risks. Secondarily, the results of the assessment are applied to generate health-promoting advices for the user of the web application.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Mental Health Disorder
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: StayOk web application

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 174
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Switzerland
  • Zürich, Switzerland
    • Helsana

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years to 65 years (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• at 16 years of age
• mild to moderate psychological distress

Exclusion Criteria:

• serious cognitive impairment due to dementia or cerebrovascular insult
• Insufficient knowledge of one of the following languages: German, French, Italian or English

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: Case management; Case management program Utilization of the StayOk web application	Device: StayOk web application; Patients fill in the questionnaires of the web application and receive an analyzed profile of their psychosocial condition and health-promoting advices

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Psychological distress	The psychological distress is assessed by the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI; Derogatis & Melisaratos, 1983)	0 week (first assessment)
Work-related sense of coherence	The work-related sense of coherence is assessed by the Work Sense of Coherence (W-SoC 9; Jenny et al., 2016)	0 weeks
Perceived self-efficacy	This aspect is measure by the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE; Damásio et al., 2016)	0 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Effectiveness of health-promoting advices	The effectiveness of the advices generated by the software is assessed by means of a self-developed questionnaire: Participants are inquired as to (1) whether they put in practice the advices and (2) how they evaluate the benefit of the applied advices and the consequent satisfaction.	12 weeks after the first assessment

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Zurich University of Applied Sciences
• Collaborators: Health and Medical Services; Helsana; Neomentum; Sanatorium Kilchberg AG; Design your life
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Agnes von Wyl, Prof, Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Derogatis LR, Melisaratos N. The Brief Symptom Inventory: an introductory report. Psychol Med. 1983 Aug;13(3):595-605.
• Jenny GJ, Bauer GF, Vinje HF, Vogt K, Torp S. The Application of Salutogenesis to Work. 2016 Sep 3. In: Mittelmark MB, Sagy S, Eriksson M, Bauer GF, Pelikan JM, Lindstrom B, Espnes GA, editors. The Handbook of Salutogenesis [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2017. Chapter 20. Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK435821/
• Damasio BF, Valentini F, Nunes-Rodriguez SI, Kliem S, Koller SH, Hinz A, Brahler E, Finck C, Zenger M. Is the General Self-Efficacy Scale a Reliable Measure to be used in Cross-Cultural Studies? Results from Brazil, Germany and Colombia. Span J Psychol. 2016 May 26;19:E29. doi: 10.1017/sjp.2016.30.

Helpful Links

• Stay OK

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 10, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 31, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): July 31, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 15, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 7, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): July 11, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 23, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 21, 2020
• Last Verified: June 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: mental health; health insurance; health promotion; assessment; case management
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: BASEC-Nr. 2016-00879

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No