Table 3:
Measurement instruments used
Variables | Measurement instrument | Range of the response scale |
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Baseline characteristics (demographic data) | Online questions about gender, age, family situation, education level, nature of employment/course, years of work experience, number of working hours per week | |
Primary outcome | ||
Mindfulness skills | FFMQ-NL total: Dutch version of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (Baer et al., 2008; De Bruin et al., 2012) Subscales:
|
1 (never or almost never) to 5 (very often or always) |
Secondary mental health outcomes | ||
Burn-out | UBOS-L Utrechtse Burn-Out Schaal-Leerkrachten (Utrecht Burn-Out Scale—Education) (Maslach and Jackson, 1981; Schaufeli et al., 1996; Schaufeli and Van Dierendonck, 2000) Subscales:
|
0 (never) to 6 (always/daily) |
Stress | DASS stress: subscale stress of the Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales (Nieuwenhuijsen et al., 2003) | 0 (not at all or never applicable) to 3 (certainly or mostly applicable) |
Sleep quality complaints | VBBA subscale (Van Veldhoven et al., 2014) | 0 (no) to 1 (yes) |
Positive emotions | Job-related Affective Well-being (JAWS) Scale, positive emotions subscale (Van Katwyk et al., 2000; Schaufeli and Van Rhenen, 2006) | 1 (never) to 5 (often) |
Negative emotions | JAWS Scale, negative emotions subscale (Van Katwyk et al., 2000; Schaufeli and Van Rhenen, 2006) | 1 (never) to 5 (often) |
Work engagement | UWES Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (Dutch; UBES) (Schaufeli et al., 2002; Schaufeli and Bakker, 2003) Subscales:
|
0 (never) to 6 (always/daily) |
Perceived general health | SF-36v2, perceived general health: Short-Form 36 Health Survey, version 2 (Van der Zee and Sanderman, 2012) | 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent) |
Organizational commitment | ACS: Affective Commitment Scale, subscale of the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) (Smeenk et al., 2006) | 1 (I totally disagree) to 5 (I totally agree) |
Work performance | ||
Work performance and work behaviour | IWPQ: Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (Koopmans et al., 2014) Subscales:
|
0 (rare) to 4 (always) |
Personal competencies | ||
Occupational Self-Efficacy | Occupational Self-Efficacy scale (Rigotti et al., 2008) | 1 (totally disagree) to 6 (totally agree) |
Taking distance | VBBA subscale (Van Veldhoven et al., 2014) | 0 (never) to 3 (always) |
Work-related perceptions/job demands | ||
Work pace and workload | VBBA subscale (Van Veldhoven et al., 2014) | 0 (never) to 3 (always) |
Emotional demands | VBBA subscale (Van Veldhoven et al., 2014) | 0 (never) to 3 (always) |
Negative work–home interaction | Survey Work-home Interaction-NijmeGen (SWING), negative work-home interaction subscale (Geurts et al., 2005) | 0 (never/almost never) to 3 (always/almost always) |
Negative home–work interaction | SWING, negative home-work interaction subscale (Geurts et al., 2005) | 0 (never/almost never) to 3 (always/almost always) |
Work-related perceptions/job resources | ||
Autonomy | VBBA subscale (Van Veldhoven et al., 2014) | 0 (never) to 3 (always) |
Feedback | VBBA subscale (Van Veldhoven et al., 2014) | 0 (never) to 3 (always) |
Relationship with colleagues | VBBA subscale (Van Veldhoven et al., 2014) | 0 (never) to 3 (always) |
Relationship with superior | VBBA subscale (Van Veldhoven et al., 2014) | 0 (never) to 3 (always) |
Relationship with students | VBBA subscale (Van Veldhoven et al., 2014) | 0 (never) to 3 (always) |
Other | ||
Evaluation of the additional organizational health intervention. Only for IG2. | Four online questions about chosen problem, method of working, joint approach, achieved results | 1 (very bad/certainly not) to 5 (very good/certainly) |