Character-Strengths Based Coaching For Work-Stress Reduction For Health Workers

Launched by TEMPLETON WORLD CHARITY FOUNDATION · Aug 22, 2023

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ClinConnect Summary

This clinical trial is studying a special coaching program designed to help rural health workers, known as ASHAs, manage work-related stress and prevent burnout. The trial involves a five-day workshop where participants learn how to use their personal strengths to cope with stress. After the workshop, they will receive weekly phone coaching sessions for about 8 to 10 weeks to help them apply what they learned. The study will compare two groups: one that receives this coaching along with standard supervision, and another group that only receives the regular supervision.

To be eligible, participants must be female ASHAs living and working in Sehore district, Madhya Pradesh, and must have been trained to provide community-based care for depression. Participants can expect to take part in assessments about their well-being and work performance at the start of the study and again at one, three, and six months later. This research aims to understand if the coaching can improve their mental health and work effectiveness, and it may also look at how these improvements affect the services they provide to their communities.

Gender

FEMALE

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • All rural ASHAs residing and working in Sehore district, Madhya Pradesh (verified in the health system records) and who have been trained by the study team on delivering community-based depression care
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • ASHAs who plan to migrate within six months of recruitment
• • ASHAs who do not plan to continue working, or those who have resigned or planning to change jobs within six months of recruitment
• • ASHAs with urban catchment areas
• • ASHA supervisors will not be included owing to hierarchical differences in these two cadres and their potential effects on absorption of intervention content, and thereby on their wellbeing (primary outcome of interest)
• • ASHAs who have difficulties in using a smartphone