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Front. Public Health
Sec. Occupational Health and Safety
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1440824
This article is part of the Research Topic Applications of Mindfulness in Media and Communication Studies View all 4 articles

Effectiveness of mobile mindfulness training on stress, burnout, and work engagement of office workers: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Provisionally accepted
Seung-Il Lee Seung-Il Lee *Seok-In Yoon Seok-In Yoon Geum-Ju Song Geum-Ju Song Hui-Yeong Park Hui-Yeong Park Sun-Yong Chung Sun-Yong Chung *Jong Woo Kim Jong Woo Kim *
  • Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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    Background: Work stress has a detrimental impact on individual health and corporate efficiency and productivity. Mindfulness reduces workers' stress and burnout and increases work engagement and performance. Smartphone-based interventions could be an alternative to provide customized training without geographical or economic constraints. This study aims to investigate whether mobile mindfulness training (MMT) improves office workers' stress, burnout, and work engagement. Methods: This study is a two-arm randomized controlled trial. In total, 114 office workers will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group will undergo MMT, following both daily and event guidelines, for the first four weeks. In contrast, the control group will not receive any intervention for the first four weeks. During the next four weeks, the control group will undergo MMT for ethical reasons. Assessments will be conducted at baseline, post-intervention (fourth week), and follow-up (eighth week).

    Keywords: burnout, work engagement, perceived stress, worker, Smartphone application, mindfulness, protocol, randomized controlled trial

    Received: 26 Jul 2024; Accepted: 17 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Lee, Yoon, Song, Park, Chung and Kim. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Seung-Il Lee, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    Sun-Yong Chung, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    Jong Woo Kim, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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