What impact does the Mental Health and Wellbeing Toolkit programme delivered online have on employee mental health and wellbeing?: A Mixed Methods Study
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description: Background This study’s aim was to pilot a Counselling Psychology informed workplace intervention to ascertain its efficacy in improving the mental health and wellbeing of participants. The catalyst for the study was the researcher training to be a Counselling Psychologist coupled with their Occupational Psychology training and work with many organisations as a consultant / trainer (which enabled them to also deliver the study’s intervention), where they identified workplace mental health and wellbeing as an area of concern. A review of available research indicated many workplaces have a significant negative effect on their employee’s mental health and wellbeing. The impact of employees reduced mental health and wellbeing on them, their organisations and in turn the economy supports the researcher’s position that this is a valuable focus of research. Methods The current study used a mixed methods(quantitative and qualitative), randomised controlled, between-subjects experimental design with 24 participants (10 in the experimental group and 14 in the control group). The qualitative data was collected from all participants through an online pre and post intervention questionnaire and post intervention semi-structured interviews with the 10 experimental group participants. This qualitative data was then analysed using thematic analysis. The quantitative data collected from all 24 study participants through online pre and postintervention self-report questionnaires was analysed using four quantitative scales. The scales used were the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (Connor & Davidson, 2003), Depression, Anxiety and Stress 21 scale (Henry and Crawford, 2005), the Coping Self-Efficacy Scale (Chesney et al, 2006) and the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale, (Tennant et al, 2007). The results of the qualitative and quantitative research were triangulated to enable the results to be considered concurrently and equally.The study participants were from two organisations,…
abstract: Background This study’s aim was to pilot a Counselling Psychology informed workplace intervention to ascertain its efficacy in improving the mental health and wellbeing of participants. The catalyst for the study was the researcher training to be a Counselling Psychologist coupled with their Occupational Psychology training and work with many organisations as a consultant / trainer (which enabled them to also deliver the study’s intervention), where they identified workplace mental health and wellbeing as an area of concern. A review of available research indicated many workplaces have a significant negative effect on their employee’s mental health and wellbeing. The impact of employees reduced mental health and wellbeing on them, their organisations and in turn the economy supports the researcher’s position that this is a valuable focus of research. Methods The current study used a mixed methods(quantitative and qualitative), randomised controlled, between-subjects experimental design with 24 participants (10 in the experimental group and 14 in the control group). The qualitative data was collected from all participants through an online pre and post intervention questionnaire and post intervention semi-structured interviews with the 10 experimental group participants. This qualitative data was then analysed using thematic analysis. The quantitative data collected from all 24 study participants through online pre and postintervention self-report questionnaires was analysed using four quantitative scales. The scales used were the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (Connor & Davidson, 2003), Depression, Anxiety and Stress 21 scale (Henry and Crawford, 2005), the Coping Self-Efficacy Scale (Chesney et al, 2006) and the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale, (Tennant et al, 2007). The results of the qualitative and quantitative research were triangulated to enable the results to be considered concurrently and equally.The study participants were from two organisations,…
author: Jones, Helen
language: eng
date published: 2022
date modified: 2026-07-24T04:39:44Z
provider: University of South Wales
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: University of South Wales