ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Improving Stress and Positive Mental Health at Work via an App-Based Intervention: A Large-Scale Multi-Center Randomized Control Trial.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05924542 (The Smart Way to Beat Stress at Work - SOMA), which is not on this map. Cited by 35 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Smart Way to Beat Stress at Work - SOMA
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.
- Optimizing Workplace Digital Mental Health Interventions: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Resilience-based interventions in the public sector workplace: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Trends in Effectiveness of Organizational eHealth Interventions in Addressing Employee Mental Health: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of psychological interventions to improve mental wellbeing.Nature human behaviour · 2021Pooled it
- Effect of a smartphone self-management digital support system for low-back pain (selfBACK) among workers with high physical work demands - secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2024Trial
- Assessing the Impact of the Prostate Cancer Patient Empowerment Program (PC-PEP) on Relationship Satisfaction, Quality of Life, and Support Group Participation: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024Trial
- The Mediating Role of General and Cognitive Stress on the Effect of an App-Based Intervention on Productivity Measures in Workers: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Trial
- Health Care Workers' Need for Headspace: Findings From a Multisite Definitive Randomized Controlled Trial of an Unguided Digital Mindfulness-Based Self-help App to Reduce Healthcare Worker Stress.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Trial
- Effects of arousal modulation via resonance breathing on craving and affect in women with substance use disorder.Addictive behaviors · 2022Trial
- Effects of a Smartphone-Based Mindfulness Intervention on Momentary Stress Among First Responders: a Micro-Randomized Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Article
- Mental Health Apps Implemented in the Workplace: Scoping Review of Trends and Gaps in Evaluation Research.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of the mobile application Holidaily in reducing work-related rumination when returning to work after vacation: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- Mobile Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for Work-Related Stress in Employees and the Influence of Instruction Format (Digital or Live) on Training Outcome: A Non-Randomized Controlled Trial.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2025Article
- A systematic realist synthesis of digital interventions for enhancing mental health at work: contexts, mechanisms, and outcomes.International journal of mental health systems · 2025Review
- Effectiveness of Digital Interventions in Reducing Occupational Stress: A Systematic Review.Portuguese journal of public health · 2024Review
- Facilitators of and Barriers to Teachers' Engagement With Consumer Technologies for Stress Management: Qualitative Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
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- Advantages and disadvantages of mobile applications for workplace health promotion: A scoping review.PloS one · 2024Article
- Mobile Behavioral Health Coaching as a Preventive Intervention for Occupational Public Health: Retrospective Longitudinal Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Feasibility and efficacy of a digital resilience training: A pilot study of the strengths-based training RESIST.Internet interventions · 2023Article
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Abstract
Mobile health interventions (i.e., "apps") are used to address mental health and are an increasingly popular method available to both individuals and organizations to manage workplace stress. However, at present, there is a lack of research on the effectiveness of mobile health interventions in counteracting or improving stress-related health problems, particularly in naturalistic, non-clinical settings. This project aimed at validating a mobile health intervention (which is theoretically grounded in the Job Demands-Resources Model) in preventing and managing stress at work. Within the mobile health intervention, employees make an evidence-based, personalized, psycho-educational journey to build further resources, and thus, reduce stress. A large-scale longitudinal randomized control trial, conducted with six European companies over 6 weeks using four measurement points, examined indicators of mental health via measures of stress, wellbeing, resilience, and sleep. The data were analyzed by means of hierarchical multilevel models for repeated measures, including both self-report measures and user behavior metrics from the app. The results (
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