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. 2022 Feb 4;38(3):daac008. doi: 10.1093/heapro/daac008

Table 3:

Measurement instruments used

Variables Measurement instrument Range of the response scale
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:
  • Observing

  • Describing

  • Acting awareness

  • Non-judging

  • Non-reactivity

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:
  • Emotional exhaustion

  • Mental distance

  • Personal accomplishment

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:
  • Vigour

  • Dedication

  • Absorption

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:
  • Task performance

  • Contextual performance

  • Counter-productive work behaviour

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)