Effectiveness of the Educator Well-being Program

Occupational Health Clinical Trial

Official title:

CPH-NEW IV - Total Worker Health - Total Teacher Health

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Enrolling by invitation

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05641987
• Other study ID #: 22-123S-2
• Secondary ID: 1 U19OH012299-01
• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 9, 2022
• Est. completion date: August 2026

Study information

• Verified date: December 2023
• Source: UConn Health
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Using a stepped wedge design (prospective cohort with concurrent controls) among six paired, elementary schools, investigators will implement and evaluate the Educator Well-being Program. The investigators will evaluate whether the process improves organizational-level factors, teacher mental well-being (stress, depression and anxiety symptoms).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Enrollment: 4000
• Est. completion date: August 2026
• Est. primary completion date: August 2026
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All staff aged 18 years or older at the time of survey administration within the three school districts will be eligible for participation.

Exclusion Criteria:

• None.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Occupational Health

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Healthy Workplace Participatory Program
The Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace's (CPH-NEW's) Healthy Workplace Participatory Program (HWPP) is a participatory process in which end-users design TWH interventions that simultaneously change organizational and individual behavior to improve the health, safety and well-being of their workforce. The HWPP uses a process to empower workers to identify the root causes of health and safety concerns and then design, implement and evaluate interventions to address those problems. The Total Teacher Health Project adapted the HWPP for educators and refer to it as the Educator Well-being Program.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	UConn Health	Farmington	Connecticut

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
UConn Health	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH/CDC)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in Team Attendance	Attendance for each Educator Design Team meeting (1-4 times per month)	Through study completion, an average of two years
Primary	Change in Team Engagement	Percentage of combined agree and strongly agree responses for 2 survey items collected following Educator Design Team meetings (1-4 times per month): "I spoke up and gave my opinion at this meeting" and "The discussion was meaningful for achieving health, safety, and well-being goals." (Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree, Not Applicable). Items are computed individually.	Through study completion, an average of two years
Primary	Change in Level of Committee Activity	A qualitative summary of field notes collected by research personnel following Educator Design Team and Administrator Team meetings (1-4 times per month) over the course of the study.	Through study completion, an average of two years
Primary	Change in team-selected health/safety/well-being issue	Targeted pre- and post-intervention surveys will be designed and administered by the Educator Design Team	Through study completion, an average of two years
Secondary	Proportion of content followed according to the Educator Well-being Program protocol	A process measure that will be determined by adherence to Educator Well-being Program protocol and pre-designed agendas for Educator Design Team meetings (1-4 times per month)	Through study completion, an average of two years
Secondary	Change in scope of health/safety/well-being protocol	Periodic interviews, designed by the research team, will be conducted with Design Team co-facilitators and Administrator Team, and compared to results from baseline leadership interviews, designed by the research team, regarding scope of health/safety/well-being	Through study completion, an average of two years
Secondary	Shared staff-management awareness of job-related health, safety and well-being issues	Interim interviews, designed by the research team, will be conducted with Educator Design Team co-facilitators and Administrator Team.	Through study completion, an average of two years
Secondary	Stress	The "All-Employee Survey for Educators" includes 1 question related to stress (Eddy, 2009). The score ranges from 1-10, where higher scores indicate more stress.	Prior to random selection of immediate and delayed intervention site, and 1 years later
Secondary	Anxiety Symptoms	The "All-Employee Survey for Educators" includes 7 items from the GAD-7 (Spitzer et al., 2006). A summary score is created and scores range from 0-21, where higher scores indicate greater anxiety symptoms.	Prior to random selection of immediate and delayed intervention site, and 1 years later
Secondary	Depression Symptoms	The "All-Employee Survey Educator" includes 10 from the CES-D (Radloff et al., 1977) A summary score is created by summing items score ranges from 0-30, where higher scores indicate greater depression symptoms.	Prior to random selection of immediate and delayed intervention site, and 1 years later
Secondary	Supportive health climate	The "All-Employee Survey Educator" includes 3 items from Multi-faceted organizational health climate assessment (Zweber et al., 2018). A summary score is created by averaging the 3 items with score ranges from 1-4, where higher scores indicate more supportive health climate.	Prior to random selection of immediate and delayed intervention site, and 1 years later
Secondary	Supportive School Climate	The "All-Employee Survey Educator" includes 6 from the School Climate sub-scale for staff connection (La Salle et al. 2018) A summary score is created by averaging the items with score ranges from 1-4, where higher scores indicate a greater more supportive school climate.	Prior to random selection of immediate and delayed intervention site, and 1 years later