Title Sveikatos priežiūros darbuotojų įsitraukimo į KET paremtą internetinę intervenciją streso mažinimui sąsajos su intervencijos veiksmingumu /
Translation of Title Relationship between adherence and outcomes of an internet-delivered cbt intervention for stress recovery in healthcare workers.
Authors Riepšaitė, Evelina
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Abstract [eng] Health care workers experience high levels of stress. Due to long working hours their possibilities for receiving psychological help are limited. iCBT provides flexible and effective treatment. The purpose of this paper was to analyse the effectiveness of an internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy based FOREST+ intervention for reducing healthcare workers’ stress and enhancing their stress recovery skills. We aimed to determine how adherence and baseline stress levels and stress recovery skills are related to the programme’s efficacy. The participants of the study were 36 healthcare workers, women aged 22 to 60 (M = 43,50, SD = 10,70 that received FOREST+ internet-delivered intervention. Pre and post intervention we used these measures: The Recovery Experiences Questionnaire (REQ), The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-4), The World Health Organization Well-being Index (WHO-5). Also we tracked study participants’ adherence to the intervention. Results show that FOREST+ internet-delivered intervention was the most effective for those healthcare workers with higher baseline stress and lower stress recovery skills at the start of the intervention. We saw significant Reliable Change Index (RCI) scores for perceived stress, psychological wellbeing, overall stress recovery and relaxation skills. During the intervention gained stress recovery skills were highly predicted by the participants’ baseline stress recovery abilities. Adherence did not predict the efficacy of the intervention and high SMS reminder intensity was not linked to better healthcare worker adherence in the programme. The study shows that it is important to research who internet-delivered interventions benefit the most and how changes in iCBT programmes happen.
Dissertation Institution Vilniaus universitetas.
Type Master thesis
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2024