Stress in Working Life

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Conditions studied: Occupational Stress

In brief

The goal of this realist evaluation of a Danish Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)-based stress management for patients with work-related stress is to understand what works, for whom, in what circumstances.The main objectives are: To assess the effect of the stress management intervention on sustainable return to work. To investigate what contexts and mechanisms are associated with patients' return to work rates and level of perceived stress after having received the stress management intervention. To understand from a patient perspective how mechanisms work in specific contexts to generate effects of the stress management intervention. The evaluation comprises two observational studies and one interview study. The intervention cohort are patients with work-related stress who received the stress management intervention between 2012-2018. The comparison cohort are patients who would have been eligible to receive the intervention in 2011-2012, however they did not receive any intervention because it was not offered at that time. In study one return to work rates are compared between the intervention cohort and the comparison cohort to find out if the intervention can help patients return to work at a faster rate. Study two will investigate if there are any explanatory variables (such as work type, civil status or level of depressive symptoms) that may explain why some patients benefit more or less from the intervention. Study three will explore what it is about the intervention (mechanisms) the patients find are helping them to cope with stress or the opposite in specific circumstances.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05791461

Run by

University of Southern Denmark

People needed

500

Starts

2023-02-01

Expected to finish

2025-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-04-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• exposure to stressful conditions at work such as a large workload and/or stressful organisational and managerial conditions.
• Patients must be employed, and if on sick leave there must be plans for return to work during the intervention period.
• Patients must exhibit severe signs of work-related stress meaning that there must have been a significant work-related impact, the patient must have had physical, psychological, and behavioural stress symptoms for more than four weeks.

You may not qualify if…

• patient's work-related stress is primarily caused by cooperation problems, bullying and/or harassment,
• long-term sick leave >26 weeks up to referral
• more severe stress load outside of work
• severe psychiatric conditions that requires treatment
• current abuse of alcohol and/or psychoactive stimulants.

Where it is running

• Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine — Odense, Denmark (enrolling)

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