Perspective (graphical)

Business

Work (physics)

Intervention (counseling)

Psychotherapist

Knowledge management

Operating system

Mental health

Engineering

Nursing

Political science

Artificial intelligence

Psychology

Psychological intervention

Public relations

Computer science

Applied psychology

Process (computing)

Medicine

Mechanical engineering

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

The paper describes the study design, research questions and methods of a large, international intervention project aimed at improving employee mental health and well-being in SMEs and public organisations. The study is innovative in multiple ways. First, it goes beyond the current debate on whether individual- or organisational-level interventions are most effective in improving employee health and well-being and tests the cumulative effects of multilevel interventions, that is, interventions addressing individual, group, leader and organisational levels. Second, it tailors its interventions to address the aftermaths of the Covid-19 pandemic and develop suitable multilevel interventions for dealing with new ways of working. Third, it uses realist evaluation to explore and identify the working ingredients of and the conditions required for each level of intervention, and their outcomes. Finally, an economic evaluation will assess both the cost-effectiveness analysis and the affordability of the interventions from the employer perspective. The study integrates the training transfer and the organisational process evaluation literature to develop toolkits helping end-users to promote mental health and well-being in the workplace.

H-WORK Project: Multilevel Interventions to Promote Mental Health in SMEs and Public Workplaces